In November 2011 I wrote a project for Saragossa city council to create there an innovation pole of Spanish Free software Communities. Two basic ideas were behind this project:
- Hosting in Saragossa the legalized communities that are established in Spain, so they could:
- Share facilities and services for to reduce expenses
- Increase the collaboration between them
- Develop a continuous program of activities in one place that could create enough energy to ignite local impact (a pole) collecting synergies from local organizations.
- Work together on attracting sponsors to cover expenses.
- Helping other non structured or legalized movements and communities to do so by giving them basic services needed at the beginning. After a fixed period, these new communities would become part of the initiative and contribute like normal members.
You can read details about that idea in the following blog post (there are links to other articles It is not 100% finished due to…..oh dear, as usual, lack of time)
I talked to Presidents and Boards from several local communities and initially liked the idea. Now the city Council, like every Public Administration in Spain, are concentrating in cutting down expenses so it seems the initiative will have to wait.
Last week I spent a few days in Berlin. KDE shares office there with FSFE. Other relevant foundations like Wikimedia, LibreOffice, etc. are placed there, know each other and have relations already.
I was wondering if it would be possible to push such an initiative there. It makes sense to me. What do you think?
Creating an incubator of Free Culture organizations would be possible if the already existing ones join efforts and a local entity provide them (us) the facilities and initial support. We have the resources and contacts to make it sustainable and it would be easier to get sponsors to partially finance the structure needed.
Together we can go much further.
toscalix 
nice posting.. thanks for sharing..
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