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Interesting! Exaggeration often does sell well in the US, but I don't think it's required. And negativity is very much in fashion here (alas) but positivity can be even more successful. So my guess is that your campaigns would work well here too. Are Americans allowed to join the FSFE?


Feel free to do so. As far as I know, the FSFE fellowship is open to anyone:

https://fellowship.fsfe.org/login/join.php

However, engaging in FSFE campaigns might become a difficult undertaking if you can't attend any of the local meetings. (Of course there are mailing lists, but those are, well, just mailing lists.)

So for a US citizen, I think it would be more effective to join the FSF instead, and to stay in contact with the FSFE from there. Those connections should already exist and probably just need to be pushed forward.


Hi all! I'm a Fellow of FSFE, too. Let me add that, as vog already mentioned, the Fellowship is open for everyone. I was told that FSFE already has some Fellows from the US. So you are not alone if you join FSFE. :-)

Of course some of the really great thinks of FSFE are the local Fellowship meetings, etc. which is more easy to organise with more Fellows around. But I would love to see Fellowship meetings in the US (usally 2-3 Fellows are already enough if you invite "non-Fellows" too). But all this is not mandatory to join FSFE. There are als FSF members at Europe without any FSF or LibrePlanet meetings. So the other way around would be perfectly OK too.

So, if you like FSFE than join us! :-)




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