Question about "The Open Source Freedom Project"

[Andrea Corbellini]

Hello,

I've been added to this team too, and I was also surprised when I
received the e-mail. It's true that this is nothing officially Ubuntu
related and I do understand that adding people to a team without saying
anything may bother someone. However I think the better thing to do in
such cases is contacting the team owner asking for explanations, instead
of asking for the user to be blocked or something.

It is possible that the user has misunderstood the concept of "team" in
Launchpad and just want to group all the people that work on FLOSS
project. Or maybe he really wants to build a new community... in any
case, contacting him is the best choice, in my opinion.

On Mon, 2011-12-12 at 12:44 +0100, Claudio Moretti wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> yesterday I found a Launchpad email in my inbox informing me that I
> was "added to osfs"; it was an email notifying me that a Launchpad
> user, ~reuben03[1], had added my user to his group, "The Open Source
> Freedom Society"[2].
> I decided to email you because I found out that a lot of users of this
> group are members of this BugSquad, while the group owner isn't; the
> page [3] this group refers to is not an Ubuntu official page, or an
> FSF one, but only a blog on Wordpress.
> I wanted to ask if there is anything Ubuntu-related in it (other from
> the obvious free software reference) and if it is "legal" to add users
> to groups like that.
> It seemed to me only a [poor] attempt to create a userbase for
> someone's group.
> I took a screenshot[4] of the actual page, just in case.
> Can anyone give it a look and tell me if it is something that should
> be reported as a misuse or if it is something normal and/or expected?
> 
> Thanks,
> Claudio
> 
> [1] https://launchpad.net/~reuben03
> [2] https://launchpad.net/~osfs
> [3] http://theopensourcefreedomsociety.wordpress.com/
> [4] http://img528.imageshack.us/img528/8236/osfs.png