The eighteenth Austrian Fellowship meeting takes place on 21 December
in Vienna. We meet around 18:00 in the Library Room at the Metalab,
Rathausstraße 6, first district. The "official" agenda will start at
19:00.
As usual, this invitation addresses to all people interested in FSFE or
Free Software. We are looking forward to many attendants!
Shane Coughlan, Freedom Task Force coordinator at FSFE, will deliver a two day course entitled 'Free Software licenses and other questions' at the Digicomp Academy Zurich, Switzerland. The course is intended for project managers, developers and technicians who wish to become more knowledgeable regarding code distribution options.
The FSFE is organising the Free Software Conference Scandinavia (FSCONS), taking place in Gothenburg, Sweden on the 7th and 8th of December 2007. It is the first in its kind event in the region, inspired by the growing momentum around Free Software.
On the 4th of December, the Free Software Foundation Europe is organising a workshop as part of the STACS project. The workshop will bring researchers and civil society together to encourage the formation of new joint research projects in the field.
The Duesseldorf Fellowship group proudly announces its next meeting on 28 November at 19:30 in the Pub "Südstern", Bilker Allee 66 in Düsseldorf. Shane Coughlan, the coordinator of the Freedom Task Force, will talk about Free Software licensing, business processes, and how the Free Software movement has moved deep into the mainstream of ICT deployment. Werner Koch will report about a public debate in the parliament of NRW regarding Security versus Freedom.
Shane Coughlan, FSFE's Freedom Task Force
coordinator will be in Nijmegen on the 26th of November and we wish to
propose a Fellowship Meeting at 6:00 pm that evening in
Cafe Jos.
Shane Coughlan will talk about the work of the
Freedom Task
Force, and discuss current events in Free Software legal activities
in Europe.
Rainer Kersten, a fellow from Duesseldorf will talk about the
experiences of the Rheinland Fellowship group.
If you would like to attend that meeting please send a short
note to contact (at) fsfe.org.
As for the 2006 edition, this year's SFScon – the annual South Tyrol
Free Software conference – will be followed by the FSFE Fellowship meeting.
Both events will take place in Meran/o (South Tyrol, Italy), from November, 16th
to 17th and from November, 18th to 21st respectively.
Entrance is free; registration
is strongly encouraged.
The seventeenth Austrian Fellowship meeting takes place on 16 November
in Vienna. We meet around 18:00 in the Library Room at the Metalab,
Rathausstraße 6, first district. The "official" agenda will start at
19:00.
As usual, this invitation addresses to all people interested in FSFE or
Free Software. We are looking forward to many attendants!
A number of Free Software related events will happen around the Internet
Governance Forum in Rio de Janiero, Brazil.
On 11 November, a discussion oriented conference with the title
"Digital Inclusion:
Accelerating Global Participation and Access through Open ICT
Standards" takes place from 8:30 to 17:30.
The Dynamic Coalition on Open Standards
sponsors an Open Workshop titled "The Intersection of Open ICT Standards,
Development, and Public Policy" on 12 November from 15:30 to 17:00, and a
Best Practice Workshop on "Open ICT Standards for Greater Citizen Access:
Best Practices in Government Policy and Procurement Practices" on 13
November from 16:30 to 18:00.
All these events take place in the Windsor Barra Hotel.
FSFE will have a booth at the Come2Linux, which takes place from 10 to 11 November in Essen, Germany. Michael Kesper from the German team and Dr Michael Stehmann from FTFs legal network will be available to answer questions. Also, T-shirts and other merchandise will be sold at the event as usual.
On the 8th of November, the FSFE and its Freedom Task Force (FTF), in collaboration with the Internet Academy in Sweden, will give a course on Strategic implementation of Free Software in businesses. The course will take place in Stockholm, Sweden and given predominantly in Swedish.
The FSFE will participate with a booth on Internetdagarna in Stockholm, Sweden, between the 5th and 6th of November. FSFE will inform visitors about various aspects of Free Software, like the Freedom Task Force, software patents, the SELF project, GPLv3, or the Fellowship of FSFE.
On the 3rd of November, Shane Coughlan from FSFE will speak at elce2007 about the business advantages inherent in Free Software and describe the licences that facilitate the freedoms it delivers. He will discuss the processes that help companies ensure they maximise benefit and minimise liability in Free Software deployment. He will also outline how Free Software and Open Standards work together to ensure a competitive marketplace.
On the 2nd of November, the FSFE and M6-IT are organising Free Software as a Social Innovation in London. This day long event will inform participants about Free Software and demonstrate its use in civil society organisations.
Shane Coughlan will deliver two talks at LinuxWorld NL. The first will take place on the 31st of October and discribe the work of Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) and some of our current projects. Shane will also provide an overview of Free Software software licences, practical compliance issues, the importance of truly Open Standards and and the work of FSFE's Freedom Task Force.
Shane Coughlan will deliver a talk about Quality Assurance, enterprise reliability and positive steps in Free Software to ensure it meets business requirements at a joint NLUUG/NLLGG event taking place in the same venue as LinuxWorld NL. The event kicks off at 18:30 and continues until 20:30.
FSFE president Georg Greve and vice-president Jonas Öberg will participate in the 5th annual OpenFest in Sofia, Bulgaria, to talk about the FSFE and the SELF project.
Ciaran O'Riordan will explain Free Software licences, pitfalls such as incompatibility, and what was learned during the GPLv3 drafting process about making the best licence possible.
Ciaran O'Riordan will give the opening keynote at this event, explaining the history of the GNU GPL, and why it has been successful in adoption and in protecting essential freedoms.
The sixteenth Austrian Fellowship meeting takes place on 23 October in
Krems. We meet at 18:30 in the Restaurant Klinglhuber, Wiener Straße
10. A separate room is reserved for "BG Rechte Kremszeile".
As usual, this invitation addresses to all people interested in FSFE or
Free Software. We are looking forward to many attendants!
On the 18. October from 14:00 to 15:30 Matthias Kirschner, FSFE's German deputy coordinator, will take part in a panel discussion at the Sustainable-IT conference. The topic of the discussion is "IT sustainability -- international. How can software contribute to resource protection and a fair distribution of knowledge". It takes place at the Kalkscheune, Johannisstraße 2 in Berlin. Registration on their website is required. Admission fee is 25 EUR, reduced 15 EUR.
On the 12th and 13th of October, the University of Lisbon will host the I Forum de Software Livre, where both academia and businesses will share their experiences with Free Software as a strong and credible technological alternative suitable for small, medium and big businesses. Georg Greve will be present, promoting the merits of Free Software, and its adequacy to modern technological needs.
On Wednesday 26 September 2007 at 19:30, Dr. Michael Stehmann gives a speech with the following topics:
On the 25th of September, Jonas Öberg, vice president of the FSFE, will talk about and present the GNU General Public License version 3 at a meeting of the Swedish Computer Association in Malmö, Sweden.
Georg Greve, president of the FSFE, will be a keynote speaker at OpenExpo, a Free Software Exposition aimed at a corporate and technical audience. He will talk about the significance and strategic importance of Free Software and Open Standards in the business world.
Between the 18th and 19th of September, the FSFE in collaboration with the Internet Academy in Sweden will give a course on the strategic implementation of Free Software in Stockholm, Sweden. The course will be given in Swedish.
Shane Coughlan, Freedom Task Force coordinator at FSFE, will deliver a two day course entitled 'Free Software licenses and other questions' at the Digicomp Academy Zurich, Switzerland. The course is intended for project managers, developers and technicians who wish to become more knowledgeable regarding code distribution options.
Between the 30th of August and 1st of September, the Fondation Sciences Citoyennes organises the 3rd Living Knowledge Conference where FSFE Swedish Team member Mathias Klang will participate to give a presentation on the SELF project.
The Department of Computer Science of the University of Applied Sciences Bonn-Rhein-Sieg is organising a conference all about Free Software in 2007 again with help of Fachschaft of Computer Science, LUUSA and FrOSCon e.V.
FSFE will again maintain a booth. Coordination is done via the booth@ mailing list.
The fifteenth Austrian Fellowship meeting takes place on 17 August
in Vienna and in Dornbirn. We meet around 18:00 in the
net.culture.lab Vienna in Museumsquartier, q21, Haupthof, the door
vis-à-vis Museum Leopold, and in the net.culture.lab Dornbirn,
Marktstraße 4. Both places will be connected via live stream.
The "official" agenda will start at 19:00.
As usual, this invitation addresses to all people interested in FSFE or
Free Software. We are looking forward to many attendants!
Between the 7th and 11th of August, Georg Greve, Jonas Öberg and members of the SELF project will participate in and give speeches at the 7th Jornadas Regionales de Software Libre in Córdoba, Argentina, as part of the work to promote the SELF project in the region.
The fourteenth Austrian Fellowship meeting takes place on 20 July
in Vienna. We meet around 18:00 in the Library Room at the Metalab,
Rathausstraße 6, first district. The "official" agenda will start at
19:00.
As usual, this invitation addresses to all people interested in FSFE or
Free Software. We are looking forward to many attendants!
Shane Coughlan, Freedom Task Force coordinator at FSFE, will present a lunch briefing at the Digicomp Academy Zurich, Switzerland focused on Free Software in business and licensing issues.
On Tuesday the 4th of July at 17.00, the FSFE is organising a summer Fellowship meeting at its offices in Göteborg. The FSFE will inform about its activities and provide an opportunity for Fellows to meet each other.
On Thursday June 28th at 21h00, there will be the first Benelux meeting of the Fellowship. The aim will be to get to know each other and to discuss what each person would like to get active on in the coming year. There will also be a social session on the night of Saturday June 30th. Details about venues will be on the Fellowship site as the information becomes available.
Shane Coughlan, Freedom Task Force coordinator at FSFE, will deliver a two day course entitled 'Free Software licenses and other questions' at the Digicomp Academy Zurich, Switzerland. The course is intended for project managers, developers and technicians who wish to become more knowledgeable regarding code distribution options.
The thirteenth Austrian Fellowship meeting takes place on 22 June
in Vienna. We meet around 18:00 in the Library Room at the Metalab,
Rathausstraße 6, first district. The "official" agenda will start at
19:00.
As usual, this invitation addresses to all people interested in FSFE or
Free Software. We are looking forward to many attendants!
Free Software Foundation Europe in collaboration with the European
Training Centre for Social Affairs and Public Health (EIPA-CEFASS)
is organising an International Conference: "FLOSS: A Valuable
Opportunity for Public Administrations".
The Conference is designed for Civil servants, Senior Civil Servants
(Directors & Unit Heads), lawyers and politicians in EU Member States
and countries surrounding the EU who are involved in the procurement of
IT solutions and in strategic decisions about innovation and
eGovernment, and who provide legal advice on copyright and patents.
The conference will be held in Milan on 21-22 June 2007. Please find
the full program and the registration form online at:
Prof. Arturo Di Corinto will moderate two speeches on the
ethics and practice of free, open source software, by
Richard Stallman, founder of the Free Software movement,
and Bruce Perens, founder of the Open Source Initiative.
The event, in collaboration with Free Software Foundation
Europe, the italian Associazione per il Software Libero,
Linux User Group La Sapienza, Wikimedia Italia, will be an
opportunity to listen to the leading actors of the
evolution of free/libre software.
The event will be held Thursday June 7th from 9.30am until
1.30pm at the Aula Magna della Caserma Sani, located in Via
Principe Amedeo, 184. It is reachable walking from Termini
Rail Station or by the Piazza Vittorio Emanuele metro
station.
Admission is free for the whole event. Audio/Video
streaming will be also available.
On Thursday June 7, 2007 at 3:30 pm in the V G Kulkarni Auditorium at
Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education (HBCSE) in Mumbai, India, Georg
Greve gives a talk about Free Software and science.
Free Software and science share common roots, and benefit society in
several similar ways. In his talk, Mr Greve will explain the concept of
Free Software and how it relates to maintaining our scientific basis as a
society. As a practical example of this collaboration, the talk will give
a brief introduction of the Science, Education and Learning in Freedom
project, in which the Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education, Tata
Institute of Fundamental Research plays a crucial role. The talk will
close with an overview of how all of this relates to the global political
trends of knowledge monopolisation, and the Access to Knowledge
initiative.
The biggest event in this year's Austrian Linuxwochen series takes place
from 31 May to 2 June 2007 in the Urania building in Vienna. The FSFE is
there during the whole event with a booth to inform people about its work
and about Free Software in general.
On 31 May at 17:00 Reinhard Müller holds a speech titled "Free Software
for a free society".
Admission is free for the whole event.
FSFE will be present with a booth at LinuxTag 2007, which takes place at Berlin's Expo Center under the Funkturm. FSFE will inform visitors about various aspects of Free Software, like the Freedom Task Force, software patents, the SELF project, GPLv3, or the Fellowship of FSFE. Also it is planned to sell T-Shirts from FSFE and books about Free Software. Please take the opportunity to get informed about Free Software and FSFE.
On Saturday 19 May 2007 at 9:30, Reinhard Müller holds the keynote for
the Linuxwochen event at the University of Applied Sciences "Johanneum"
in Graz.
At 11:00 he gives another speech titled "Free Software for a free
society" there.
As a part of the same event, the twelfth Austrian Fellowship meeting
takes place at 15:00. As usual, all people interested in FSFE or Free
Software are invited to this meeting.
The FSFE also has a booth at the event where it informs about its work
and about Free Software in general.
Admission is free for the whole event.
The eLiberatica Conference is the most important romanian event concerning Free Software. It will be held on the 18th and the 19th of May, in Braşov, Romania, and is organized by ROSI, a romanian assocition advocating Free Software, and by Agora Media, a romanian media group. eLiberatica's purpose is to unify pomotion of Free Software throughout Romania, and encouraging its adoption by business through grassroots organization. The conference therefore addresses programmers, university students, and business people. Georg Greve will deliver a talk on Open Standards and Free Competition.
On thursday the 17th of may, the FSFE and Digifri, Sweden, invites you to attend a lecture by Richard Stallman on Copyright vs Community in the Age of Computer Networks. The lecture will take place at Linköping University, room C4 at 17.00.
On Wednesday the 16th of may, the FSFE and Göteborg University, Sweden, invites you to attend a lecture by Richard Stallman on Free Software and Beyond: Human Rights in the Use of Software and Other Published Works. Stallman will speak about the history and philosophy of the Free Software Movement, address how the ideas of Free Software do or don't extend to other kinds of published works and explain what the Pirate Party must change in its program to avoid unintended negative consequences in the software field.
On Saturday 12 May 2007 at 13:45, Karin Kosina gives a speech titled "Free Software for free people" as a part of the Linuxwochen event at the University of Applied Sciences in Eisenstadt. Admission is free.
FSFE will be present at the first Italian Conference on Free Software,
a conference intended to examine the state of the art in Free Software.
The conference wants to be the point of meeting of all the subjects
that involved in the diffusion and in the use of the Free Software in Italy
and all over the world, or undertaken, public corporate body,
university, developers, researchers and impassioned, to know it and to
start collaborations and projects.
The conference will be a point of intersection for all of the subjects
around Free Software both in Italy and world-wide. It will provide a
forum for public bodies, universities, developers and researchers to
network, collaborate and initiate projects.
This will be the first conference focusing on Free Software in science
and is being organised by Hacklab Cosenza in collaboration of FSFE,
University of Calabria.
Georg Greve and Ciaran O'Riordan will speak at the Libremeeting 2007 --the 1st International Free Knowledge Meeting of Madrid--. Georg will present the FSFE while Ciaran's speech will be about the GPLv3. The event is organized by our associated organization the Free Knowledge Foundation.
On Monday 7 May 2007 at 19:30, Shane M. Coughlan gives an introduction to Free Software Licensing and the Freedom Task Force in the Restaurant "Philipp" in Düsseldorf, Fürstenwall 120. The event was organised by the local Fellowship group. Admission is free.
The eleventh Austrian Fellowship meeting takes place on 27 April
in Vienna. We meet around 18:00 in the Library Room at the Metalab,
Rathausstraße 6, first district. The "official" agenda will start at
19:00.
As usual, this invitation addresses to all people interested in FSFE or
Free Software. We are looking forward to many attendants!
On April 27th-29th 2007, the weekend of World "Intellectual Property Day", the Yale Information Society Project will hold its Second Annual Access to Knowledge (A2K) Conference. This A2K conference program focuses on mobilizing Industry, Civil Society, Governments and Technologists, around human rights, human development and the public interest in the domain of innovation and information policy, as well as understanding the theoretical underpinnings of access to knowledge issues. Georg Greve will be present, advocating Free Software, and will act as a moderator in the Mobilizing Technologists Panel.
Shane Coughlan, FSFE Freedom Task Force coordinator, will deliver a speech entitled 'Introduction to Free Software' at ETH Zurich during the "Linux-Day V" event for students. Shane will be speaking at 13:15 on the 27th of April at ETH Zentrum HG E33.1.
On April 4th, 18:00 pm, Georg Greve and Jonas Oberg will give three public talks. Georg will present the FSFE, and Free Software issues in e-government, and Jonas will talk about the SELF project. This event will take place in Belgrade, it will also be an opportunity for the Free Software community in Serbia to meet, with people also coming from Macedonia and Croatia.
On Sunday April 1st, at 17h00, in Brussels, Richard Stallman will present the current status of the global project to update Free Software's keystone licence: the GNU GPL. This talk will be Stallman's first since the release of discussion draft 3 - the draft crafted to block patent deals such as that of Novell+Microsoft. This draft has also been simplified, and the DRM (Digital Restrictions Management) and tivoisation clauses have also been altered significantly.
The Fellowship group in Düsseldorf has invited GnuPG's principal author Werner Koch to speak about the Fellowship crypto card and its practical use. The event starts on 28 March 2007 at 19:00 in the "Gaststätte Phillip" in Düsseldorf. Admittance is free, although donations for the FSFE are of course welcome.
The first Franconian Fellowship meeting takes place on 24 March 2007 in Forchheim. We meet at 16:00 in the restaurant "Roter Ochs". Jutta Horstmann speaks about Content Management Systems, Rainer Kersten from FSFE's office will give some info about FSFE, and the following discussion will certainly be interesting :-).
This will be the second meeting of fellows in the region of Bonn and
Cologne. It will take place on 2007-03-20 at 19 o'clock (open end) in
the restaurant/bar
Aktuell Nachrichtentreff.
Everyone living in the region, please subscribe to the new
Rheinland mailinglist
where discussion about topics will take place as well as other things
interesting for fellows in the "Rheinland" region.
If you want to come, please
drop me a line
so I can adjust the reservation.
The tenth Austrian Fellowship meeting takes place on 16 March
in Vienna. We meet around 18:00 in the Library Room at the Metalab,
Rathausstraße 6, first district. The "official" agenda will start at
19:00.
A major topic this time is the planning of FSFE's participation in this
year's Linuxwochen event series in Austria
As usual, this invitation addresses to all people interested in FSFE or
Free Software. We are looking forward to many attendants!
The Fellowship group in Düsseldorf has invited Marcus Brinkmann to speak about restricted trust in computer systems. The event starts on 28 February 2007 at 20:00 in the "Gaststätte Phillip" in Düsseldorf. Admittance is free, although donations for the FSFE are of course welcome.
FSFE will attend FOSDEM 2007 which takes place from 24th - 25th
of February in Brussels, Belgium. FOSDEM is a European Free
Software developer conference organized by volunteers.
The FSFE will be present with a booth where visitors will be
informed about recent activities, Free Software itself and the
Fellowship of the FSFE.
Georg Greve, president of FSFE, will do this year's Closing Keynote,
on the topic of "Beyond GPLv3: Free Software today and tomorrow".
Shane M. Coughlan will be giving a Lightning talk at FOSDEM about the Free Software
licensing and the Freedom Task Force.
As usual, T-Shirts will be sold as well.
The event promotes the widespread use of Free Software, to
provide Free Software developers and communities a place to
meet, to get in touch with other projects, and to promote the
development and the benefits of Free Software solutions.
Georg Greve, president of FSFE, has been invited to act as an observer at the third session of the Provisional Committee on Proposal Related to a WIPO Development Agenda (PCDA); he already participated to the 1st and the 2nd session. The meeting will be held in Geneva, from February 19th to 23rd, 2007.
The nineth Austrian Fellowship meeting takes place on 19 February
(note: this is a Monday, not a Friday as usual)
in Vienna. We meet around 18:00 in the Library Room at the Metalab,
Rathausstraße 6, first district. The "official" agenda will start at
19:00.
As usual, this invitation addresses to all people interested in FSFE or
Free Software. We are looking forward to many attendants!
FSFE will be represented by Ciaran O'Riordan at this computer science conference. Ciaran will speak on the topic of GPLv3, presenting the current state and the work ahead.
Shane Coughlan, Freedom Task Force (FTF) coordinator, will attend the LIFT conference in Geneva, Switzerland. LIFT is a conference to explore the challenges and opportunities of technology in society. Shane will participate in the 'Legal issues and perspectives' workshop hosted by the Swiss lawfirm BCCC.
During the second leg of the SELF project, Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education, TIFR will organise the second BOARD meeting in Mumbai, India. The issues that will be discussed are related to SELF Support Programme (SSP), Finances and budget, Expert groups, and other strategic plans. The week long meeting comprises of two days workshop sessions, three days board meeting, one day SELF conference and one day for a social event. George Greve and Jonas Oberg, president and vice president of the FSFE, will be part of the Legal Experts Group.
The eigth Austrian Fellowship meeting takes place on 19 January
in Vienna. We meet around 18:00 in the Library Room at the Metalab,
Rathausstraße 6, first district. The "official" agenda will start at
19:00.
As usual, this invitation addresses to all people interested in FSFE or
Free Software. We are looking forward to many attendants!