[dot] 14-15 April 2004: Brussels is the Hub to go

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From: Laurence Vandewalle / André R. (ed.)<lvandewalle at europarl.eu.int> on Monday 05/Apr/2004, @10:07
Dept: brussels-lobbying-conspiracy


14-15 April 2004: Brussels is the Hub to go
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     Most European legal frame related to new technologies is cooked up
at Brussels. Its future members will decide on the patentability of
software, on data privacy issues, TPRM, and so on. On 14th and 15 April
a conference and Linux User Group event chaired by Daniel Cohn-Bendit
(member of European parlament) takes place. Join an install party within
European Parliament (and bring your favorite MEP with you). Attend a
panel with eg. Alan Cox, Georg Greve, Jon Lech Johansen (of decss fame).
Participate in a guided tour through Brussels (Demonstration
[http://demo.ffii.org/] for a Free Information Infrastructure
("Anti-Swpat"))
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Information_Infrastructure]. Meet
LUGs and development teams from all over the place, and the software
patent experts of FFII.

 [http://swpat.ffii.org/]
     As so many KDE contributors, companies and users are from Europe,
this event is a good opportunity to present the progress of the project.
Our European decision makers know very little about KDE as a mature
desktop solution. KDE's great internationalization efforts
[http://i18n.kde.org/] for instance are a practical solution to the
requirements of the European Charter of Regional and Minority Languages.
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Charter_for_Regional_or_Minority_Languages]
Educate your EU representatives and officers about the importance of KDE
for the Freedom of the European Information Infrastructure. Jens
Mühlhaus (Munich City Council) will speak about the Munich Linux/KDE
migration project.

     Parliament entrance is free however to access the building you have
to register online before 7 April:  Greens Announcement
[http://www.greens-efa.org/en/agenda/detail.php?id=1365] and online
registration form
 [http://greens-efa.org/pdf/agenda/euroLUGparty.pdf/]



             FREE INFORMATION INFRASTRUCTURE, 14 APRIL 2004


    *
           Brussels Demo on 14 April 11.30 [http://demo.ffii.org/] and
online
      demo.
       [http://demo.ffii.org/online.php]
    *
           Short interdisciplinary swpat conference (International
Institute
      of Infonomics/FFII) [http://plone.ffii.org/events/2004/bxl04]
      14.00 - 18.00   European Parliament, room AG2

    *
           On 14 April evening, there will be a diner meeting at
restaurant La
      Tentation [http://plone.ffii.org/events/2004/bxl04/soir/], in the
      center of Brussels.

    *
           Event page of FFII, registration, hotels
       [http://plone.ffii.org/events/2004/bxl04]




 EURO G/LUG PARTY, BRUSSELS EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT ROOM ASP 1G2, 15 APRIL
                                  2004


     Contact: lvandewalle at europarl.eu.int
 [lvandewalle at europarl.eu.int]
     The Greens in European parliament invite representatives of
GNU/Linux Users Groups of the 25 Member States of the European Union to
come to Brussels to

    *
           enhance the networking among the free software community in
      Europe(in particular with the New Member states)

    *
           prepare the second reading on the software patents directive

    *
           show inside EP what free software is, how it works and what
ideas
      lie behind

    *
           participate to the FFII conference and demo against software
      patents on 14 April


     Programme and registration on http://www.greens-efa.org Laurence
Vandewalle: lvandewalle at europarl.eu.int

     PROGRAMME

     9.00-11.00 25 G/LUGs for a Free Europe

     Gathering European GNU/Linux Users Groups and associations for the
promotion of free software : BxLUG - Belgium, RWO - Plug - Poland,
Vrijschrift - The Netherlands, LiLux - Luxemburg, FFS Software -
Austria, APRIL - HNS-info.net - France, GUUG - Germany, SSLUG -
Sweden&Denmark, LUGOS - Slovenia, Debian - Latvia, AKL - Lithuania,
LugRoma - Italy, Grece, Cyprus, Finland, Estonia, ...

     11.00-12.30 Linux Install Party for MEPs with Monica Frassoni Dany
Cohn-Bendit, Hiltrud Breyer, Bart Staes, ... organized by BxLug

     15.00 PANEL I: FAIR USE/COPIE PRIVÉE

     Gwen Hinze(Electronic Fronteer Foundation)

     Laurence Lebersorg(Test-Achat Belgium)

     Jon Lech Johansen(DVD-Jon)

     16.00 PANEL II: FREE/OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE

     Cristiano Paggetti(Italy): eGovernment

     Andrea Glorioso (Italy) : Free Content

     Herman Bruynickx(Belgium): Free software in education

     Jens Muhlhaus(Germany): Public administration: Linux für Munchen

     17.00 PANEL III : FREE AS IN FREEDOM

     Georg Greve, FSF Europe (Germany) Agenda 1910

     17.30 Alan Cox www.linux.org.uk co-signatory of the letter sent by
Linus Torvalds to the President of EP against software patents(UK)

     Links:


     European Greens/European Freedom Alliance registration
 [http://greens-efa.org/pdf/agenda/euroLUGparty.pdf/]
     Laurence's Blog
 [http://laurence.domainepublic.net]