Free Knowledge Foundation Explained

Free Knowledge Foundation
Type:	Charitable organization
Foundation:	2004
Location City:	Miraflores de la Sierra, Madrid
Location Country:	Spain
Key People:	Pablo Machón
Homepage:	www.libre.org (via archive.org)

The Free Knowledge Foundation (FKF; Spanish; Castilian: Fundación Conocimiento Libre) is an organization aiming to promote Free Knowledge, including Free Software and Free Standards. It was founded in 2004 and is based in Madrid, Spain.

Pablo Machón has been FKF's president since 2004. In 2005, the Foundation appointed Richard Stallman as Patron of Honor.^[1]

In 2006 the FKF became^[2] an associate organization of the Free Software Foundation Europe.^[3]

Libremeeting

FKF organizes LibreMeeting,^[4] the International Free Knowledge Meeting of Madrid. It is usually held at La Cristelera Residence, in the town of Miraflores de la Sierra, 50 km. away from Madrid.

The Foundation presents the libre.org awards at LibreMeeting. These awards are honored to people or organizations that promote free knowledge. Some of the recipients are:

• Juan Carlos Rodríguez Ibarra, Extremadura's former President
• Esteban González Pons, Spanish Popular Party's politician^[5]
• The Spanish Senate^[6]
• Juan Alberto Belloch,^[7] Spanish ex-minister of Justice and Interior and Mayor of Zaragoza
• The Junta de Andalucía^[8] (Andalusian Autonomous Government)
• The Generalitat Valenciana (Valencian Autonomous Government)
• The Spanish Ministry of Industry, Tourism and Trade

Event participation and organization

The FKF organizes other events ^[9] apart from Libremeeting, and participates with speakers at relevant international events related to Free Software and Free Knowledge.

See also

• Open Knowledge Foundation

External links

• Free Knowledge Foundation
• Free Knowledge Foundation alternate page
• Weblog of Manuel Gualda, from the FKF Team (in Spanish)

Notes and References

1. http://www.elpais.com/articulo/internet/Richard/Stallman/patentes/software/minas/programadores/elpeputec/20050506elpepunet_3/Tes Interview with Richard Stallman published in El País, where he is asked about being appointed as Fundación Conocimiento Libre (FKF)'s Patron of Honor
2. http://mailman.fsfeurope.org/pipermail/press-release/2006q1/000128.html FKF and FSFE teaming up: FKF official associate organisation of FSF Europe
3. Web site: FSFE Associate Organisations . 2010-04-13 . 2016-03-03 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160303172530/http://fsfe.org/associates/associates.en.html . dead .
4. http://www.elpais.com/articulo/internet/conocimiento/libre/cultura/debate/Madrid/elpeputec/20070509elpepunet_4/Tes Libremeeting article in El Pais (in Spanish)
5. http://www.elpais.com/articulo/internet/Pons/administraciones/usan/software/libre/democraticas/elpeputec/20050505elpepunet_4/Tes News item published in El País about Esteban González Pons talk at the FKF presentation
6. http://www.noticias.com/el-senado-recibe-el-premio-libre-org-de-la-fundacion-conocimiento-libre.33786 Europa Press news item published in Noticias.com about the Spanish Senate Libre.org Award
7. http://www.elpais.com/articulo/internet/Juan/Alberto/Belloch/libre/org/elpeputec/20070321elpepunet_8/Tes News item published in El País about Juan Alberto Belloch being awarded by the FKF
8. http://www.reta.es/index.php/actualidad/noticias/actualidad-reta/4213.html
9. Web site: Richard Stallman talk about Free Software, organized by the FKF and MediaLab Prado in Madrid . 2010-04-14 . https://web.archive.org/web/20100330083603/http://medialab-prado.es/article/conferencia_de_richard_stallman# . 2010-03-30 . dead .