For any proposal, please contact Stefano Marinelli

Team

Our team is organized on the Bazaar model, with friendship relations and freedom of initiative. Everyone is welcome, do not hesitate to join. Contacts:

• Renzo Davoli, Professor at Università di Bologna, initiator of the FreeOSZoo project. He's the one who is making this possible! :-) .
• Stefano Marinelli, graduated student and system administrator at Università di Bologna. He's now preparing the new site and new images. He's the maintainer of both site and forum.
• Pierre d'Herbemont, contributor of the QEMU MacOsX installer.
• Ronald Delobel, contributor of the QEMU Win32 installer.
• Jean-Michel Pouré, just left the project, prepared all we're using right now. Thank you, Jean-Michel!
• Raphaël Enrici, AKA blacknoz, just left the project. Thank you for all, Raphael!

Future vision and ideas

• QEMU has some 'reverse' beauty: you can use a Free OS inside a Proprietary OS, but you can also do the converse i.e. use a Proprietary OS inside a Free OS. You'll never see a Proprietary OS here.
• People are intelligent enough to understand the advantages of using Free Software. If you demonstrate the values of Free Software, people will adopt Free Software immediately.
• Today's large domination of Proprietary OSes is not an obstacle. Why not use Proprietary OSes as a presentation and learning platform for Free Software.
• Playing is the best way to learn. If you can play with Free Software while using a Proprietary OS, you may understand the interest in removing a proprietary platform completely. On the converse, if you loose time installing Free Software, you may not consider learning Free Software a game.
• QEMU future 64 bits version will probably be able to execute 32 bits applications at nearly full native speed, on any 64 bits Operating System.
• Free Software is related to Free Speech, Democracy and equal access to learning. Ultimately, the right of using Free Software only relies on constitutional rights.
• If you are in favor of patents on software, you probably don't like children. Maybe you never had children?