FOSDEM(2), a GPLv3 transcript, and a panel with Francisco Mingorance

After day one of FOSDEM, I went for a drink with the FSFE team and headed to the office to make a transcript of RMS's GPLv3 presentation from a video I had recorded on my digital camera earlier that day.

That took me until 5am, so day two of FOSDEM (Sunday) was a short day because I didn't get up early. I mostly hung around the FSFE booth and got to know my co-workers and chatted with other FOSDEMmers about GPLv3 and other things.

On Monday morning I sat on a panel organised by FSFE's media relation's guy, Joachim Jakobs, and made the case against software patents in a roundtable discussion for a press audience alongside Pieter Hintjens (President of FFII) and Francisco Mingorance (of the Business Software Alliance) who made the counter-case. This went well.

After that I raced for my flight to Ireland for the AGM of Irish Free Software Organisation where we did the required stuff and then discussed a possible event for May which would include the GPLv3. Maybe a general free software licensing event. It's just in the discussion phase. We also discussed FOSS Means Business, which is now just two and a half weeks away.

Then I blogged and went to bed :-)

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