Events
Event Archive for 2006
Fellowship meeting in Vienna
15 December 2006
The seventh Austrian Fellowship meeting takes place on 15 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!
IRC chat about the Freedom Task Force
15 December 2006
Shane Coughlan, FTF coordinator, will be on IRC this Friday to answer
questions about the Freedom Task Force, to discuss potential routes of involvement,
and to chat in general about Free Software licensing in Europe. The
discussion will take place on freenode in the #fsfeurope channel between 9am
and 11am GMT time (10am to 12 noon CET).
Xerrada al "Nexell informiert", Zuric, Suïssa
04 December 2006
El president de l'FSFE, Georg Greve, farà una presentació titulada "Què és
el Programari Lliure i són les solucions professionals de Programari Lliure suficients
per al nostre negoci diari?" durant el "Nexell informiert", a Zuric. La presentació
comença el 4 de desembre a les 17:30 al "Schweizerisches Institut für
Betriebsökonomie".
"Nexell informiert" és una reunió on es conviden experts per a xerrar i
expandir el coneixement sobre el Programari Lliure, organitzat pel Nexell,
un equip independent de professionals internacionals i multilingües del CRM,
per a ajudar els clients a trobar les tecnologies, plataformes i solucions adequades
per a complir les seves necessitats i pressupostos.
Third Edition of the Trophées du Libre, Soissons, France
30 November 2006
FSFE president Georg Greve will participate as member of the jury at the
Third Edition of the Trophées du Libre. The ceremony will take place the
30 November 2006 at Soissons (France). Trophées du Libre is an
international competition rewarding the best free software projects among
6 categories: Security, Multimedia and Games, Company management,
Educational, Applications for Public infrastructures and for communities,
PHP.
25 November 2006
El dia 25 de novembre de 2006, a las 10, es celebrarà en la sala
C6-E101 del Campus Nord de la UPC (Barcelona) una altra trobada del
equip espanyol de l'FSFE. L'entrada es lliure i no fa falta que
us inscriviu per assistir-hi.
Us esperem!
21 – 22 November 2006
La 5a conferència internacional sobre la GPLv3 serà un esdeveniment
de dos dies al Japó el 21 i 22 de novembre. Està organitzar per la Free
Software Initiative Japan i acollirà experts i parts
interessades que faran presentacions i participaran
en discussions sobre la principal llicència de Programari Lliure. L'FSFE
estarà representada per en Georg Greve (president) i en Ciarán
O'Riordán. Els objectius comuns són els de maximitzar el coneixement del
procés de la GPLv3 i per a proporcionar a l'audiència la informació necessària per
a fer comentaris en els esborranys de llicència i per a ajudar-los a
explicar els canvis propossats a altres persones.
Fellowship meeting in Vienna
17 November 2006
The sixth Austrian Fellowship meeting takes place on 17 November
in Vienna. We meet around 18:00 in the Lounge at the Metalab,
Rathausstraße 6, first district. The "official" agenda will start at
19:00.
Some of the Fellows that have been on the first international Fellowship
meeting in Bolzano will be there to report from that event. The Freedom
Task Force which was presented there will also be a topic for the
evening.
As usual, this invitation addresses to all people interested in FSFE or
Free Software. We are looking forward to many attendants!
14 – 16 November 2006
L'FSFE estarà present amb una parada a la "Conferència i Expo Linuxworld"
que té lloc del 14 al 16 de novembre a l'àrea "Koelnmesse"
a Colònia, Alemanya.
Primera reunió anual internacional de la Fellowship
11 November 2006
Els Fellows de l'FSFE es trobaran a Bolzano, a la South Tyrol
Free Software Conference 2006 (SFSCon), el dissabte 11 de novembre.
Comproveu l'enllaç per a informació més actualitzada.
https://fsfe.org/events/first_international_annual_meeting_of_the_fellows_of_fsfe
07 November 2006
El president de l'FSFE, Georg Greve, donarà una xerrada titulada "Kommerzielle,
praktische und gesellschaftliche Aspekte Freier Software" durant la propera
reunió OpenTuesday, a Zuric. La xerrada comença a les 18:00 del 7 de novembre.
Les reunions OpenTuesday són reunions mensuals on es conviden experts per a
parlar i fer conèixer qüestions sobre el Programari Lliure.
04 November 2006
Dublín, Irlanda. Ciarán O'Riordán farà una presentació sobre la
GPLv3 de GNU, especialment l'estat de la discussió i les opcions
obertes sobre DRM i "tivoització"- usant el nucli Linux com a
exemple. Aquesta presentació formarà part d'un esdeveniment d'un dia
del ILUG AGM.
30 October – 02 November 2006
From 30 October to 2 November the UN is holding its first
Internet Governance Forum (IGF) in Athens, Greece. FSFE president
Georg Greve is participating to discuss issues of software sovereignty and to
participate in the high level panel
on Access.
25 – 26 October 2006
L'FSFE serà present a la "LinuxWorld Expo" de Londres, els
dies 25 i 26 d'octubre. L'FSFE tindrà una parada a l'esdeveniment.
Si us plau, veniu i visiteu-nos per a aprendre més sobre el Programari lliure, la
feina de l'FSFE i la Fellowship.
24 – 25 October 2006
Al Dia d'Internet 2006 a Estocolm, Suècia, el vicepresident
de l'FSFE Jonas Öberg participarà en un panell de discussió
sobre formats de document oberts. L'FSFE també serà present amb
una parada durant l'esdeveniment.
Reunió de la Fellowship a Viena
20 October 2006
La quarta reunió de la Fellowship austríaca tindrà lloc el 20 d'octubre
a les 18:00 al Metalab de Viena, Rathausstraße 6, primer
districte.
Com és habitual, aquesta invitació s'adreça a tothom interessat en l'FSFE o
el Programari Lliure. Esperem molta assistència!
Reunió de la Fellowship a Dusseldorf
27 September 2006
Els Fellows de Dusseldorf i rodalies es troben el 27
de setembre a les 20:00 al Cafè "Philipp", Furstenwall
120, Dusseldorf-Bilk. Si us plau, informeu a kersten (a) fsfeurope.org
si teniu intenció d'anar-hi.
23 – 30 September 2006
La conferència anual del KDE d'enguany tindrà lloc al Trinity
College de Dublín, Irlanda. L'FSFE estarà representada per en Ciarán
O'Riordan qui donarà una pinzellada sobre les patents de programari a
les 13:45 de diumenge 24, i liderarà una sessió Birds of a Feather
sobre la GPLv3 de 19:00 a 20:00 de dimarts 26.
L'aKademy és generalment de naturalesa tècnica.
21 – 22 September 2006
Georg Greve, president of FSFE, will partecipate in a policy panel,
at the workshop "IPR protection of software", to explain and make clear
the advantages and benefits of Free Software licensing.
The panel will take place on the second day of the workshop, the 22nd of September
at 13:00. The venue is the Hotel Linna, Helsinki.
15 September 2006
L'FSFE organitzarà un curs a la conferència d'aquest any
de mags dels SO (Wizards of OS conference) a Berlín el divendres
15 de setembre, de 17h a 19h. Georg Greve i Ciarán
O'Riordan s'uniran amb membres de l'FSF Amèrica Llatina,
organització germana de l'FSFE, per tal de presentar els principals
canvis proposats per a la GPLv3 i per a examinar l'estat actual
del procés de discussió pública.
Reunió de la Fellowship a Viena
15 September 2006
La quarta reunió austríaca de la Fellowship tindrà lloc el 15 de setembre,
començant a les 18:00 al Metalab de Viena, Rathausstraße 6, primer
districte.
Com és habitual, aquesta invitació s'adreça a tothom interessat en l'FSFE o
el Programari Lliure. Esperem molta assistència!
09 September 2006
Al "Tiroler Linuxtag", l'últim esdeveniment de la sèrie austríaca
"Linuxwochen", tant Reinhard Müller com Patrick Ohnewein hi tindran un paper important.
Reinhard Müller donarà una visió general del Programari Lliure i informarà
sobre la Fellowship, i Patrick Ohnewein parlarà sobre CoCOS, un
centre de competència sobre el Programari Lliure, i sobre el Programari Lliure al
sud del Tirol.
L'esdeveniment tindrà lloc el 9 de setembre de 2006, de 10:00 a 17:00 a la
UMIT, una universitat privada de Hall en Tirol. L'entrada és lliure.
30 August 2006
Ciaran O'Riordán presentarà i respondrà preguntes sobre
els principals canvis fets per a la versió tres de la GPL de
GNU. L'objectiu d'aquest acte és donar informació als
membres de la comunitat del Programari Lliure per tal d'ajudar-los
a fer crítica constructiva i a suggerir millores durant el que
queda del procés de consulta pública d'un any.
Dataföreningen Region West, Göteborg, Sweden
29 August 2006
En una de les reunions regulars de treball en xarxa de Dataföreningen
Region West, Jonas Öberg, vicepresident de l'FSFE, donarà una
visió general de la GPL version 3, els canvis proposats i la
racionalització d'aquests.
23 – 24 August 2006
La 4a conferència internacional per a l'esborrany de la versió 3
de la GPL de GNU tindrà lloc a Bangalore, Índia, els dies 23 i 24
d'agost.
L'FSFE estarà representada en aquest event pel seu líder del projecte GPLv3
Ciarán O'Riordan. O'Riordan també hi serà per a donar
assistència a l'organització de la conferència, i per a estrènyer
més els llaços d'unió amb l'organització germana de l'FSFE a l'Índia, l'FSFI.
09 – 11 July 2006
The public kick off conference for the "Science Education and Learning in Freedom" (SELF) project, will take place in the Hague, Netherlands on the 10th of July. Georg Greve, president of FSFE, and Jonas Oberg, vice president of FSFE, will participate at the conference. Greve will be the keynote on the topic "Strategic implications of Free Software in the Netherlands and in Europe", and Oberg will lead the panel discussion about "The Open Content Revolution"
28 June 2006
Ciaran O'Riordan will give an overview of the current proposal
for how v3 of the GNU GPL will differ from v2. Topics will
include a description of the year-long public consultation
process and how GPLv3 will strive to preserve freedom in spite
of DRM, software patents, and a complicated legal World.
WIPO Provisional Committee on Proposals Related to a WIPO Development Agenda (PCDA) -- 2nd Session, Geneva, Switzerland
26 – 30 June 2006
As part of FSFE's ongoing work to reform the global system for copyrights, patents and trademarks, Georg Greve, president of FSFE, is going to attend the 2nd session of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Provisional Committee on Proposals Related to a WIPO Development Agenda (PCDA), as he already participated to the 1st session on February 2006. The meeting will take place at the United Nations in Geneva.
22 – 23 June 2006
En aquesta conferència internacional de dos dies, els experts de la GPLv3
i les llicències de Programari Lliure presentaran els canvis proposats per a
la llicència pal de paller del Programari Lliure, la Llicència Pública General
de GNU. Els experts respondran preguntes dels assistents i
s'organitzaran debats sobre alguns assumptes. Els objectius principals són
d'incrementar el coneixement del procés de la GPLv3 i de donar als assistents
la informació necessària per a explicar els canvis proposats a
d'altri.
16 June 2006
Free Software meets digital lifestyle: on Friday 16 June, Georg Greve will speak at the Dorkbot Swiss meeting at the Kunstraum Walcheturm in Zurich, Switzerland at 20:00. The event will focus mainly on social issues of digital freedom.
31 May – 02 June 2006
Austria's largest Free Software event takes place from Wednesday, 31 May
2006, 10:00, to Friday, 2 June 2006, 22:00, in the Urania building,
Uraniastraße 1, First District, Vienna. Admission is free.
FSFE is present with a booth. On all three days of the event, members of
the FSFE, Fellows, and volunteers are available at the booth to inform
about the work of the FSFE and about the Fellowship.
On Wednesday 31 May at 20:00 Karin Kosina gives a speech titled "Free
Software for free people" in which she introduces the Free Software
Foundation Europe.
15 – 19 May 2006
At the 5th System Administration and Network Engineering Conference in Delft, Georg Greve, president of FSFE, will give an introduction to the GPL version 3, the changes made, their reasoning and how to participate in the process to make sure GPLv3 will be the best GPL we can collectively create.
03 – 06 May 2006
As every year, the FSFE will be present at the GNU/LinuxTag, one of the highlights of the Free Software year since 1996, with many volunteers and presentations to spread knowledge about Free Software and the work of FSFE. Meet many of the FSFE activists and visit their talks about WIPO, GPLv3, DRM, and other topics.
29 April 2006
Federico Heinz will give two talks in Dublin, Ireland. One on
"Free Software and Education", and one on "The Imperative for
Free Software in Public Administration". This event is being
organised by Ciaran O'Riordan with Irish Free Software
Organisation. O'Riordan will also make a presentation about
GPLv3: the process and the largest changes.
Hearing for Microsoft Antitrust case, European Court,
Luxembourg
24 – 28 April 2006
The Grand Jury of the EU Court of Justice is ready for the big hearing on the
Microsoft Antitrust Case. The hearing will take place in the Grande Salle of the
EU Court, from the 24th until the 28th of April. Georg Greve president of FSFE,
Carlo Piana FSFE's lawyer on the case and Andrew Tridgell of the Samba Team will
be present at the event to defend the Court from Microsoft's legal team efforts of
circumventing once again their obligations.
21 – 23 April 2006
At the first international conference on Access to Knowledge, held at
Yale Law School, Karsten Gerloff will moderate a panel discussion on
"Licensing Frameworks for Access to Knowledge". The goal of the
conference is to come up with a new analytic framework for analysing the
possibly distortive effects of public policies relying exclusively on
copyright and patents. Participants will be looking for alternative ways
to foster greater access to knowledge in the digitally connected
environment.
19 – 22 April 2006
The 7th edition of the Free Software Forum (FISL) will once more take place in Porto Alegre,
Brazil and also host the second international conference on GPLv3. FSFE will be
represented at this event by its president, Georg Greve, and FSFE's Brussels representative,
Ciaran O'Riordan. Both will speak at the GPLv3 event, and participate during the main FISL event:
Georg Greve will give one of the opening talks, titled
"Free Software - Social Movement or Technological
Revolution?" and Ciaran O'Riordan will talk about work against software patents. Both will
also work with FSFE's sister association, the FSF Latin America and meet the local Free Software community
to strengthen the international Free Software network.
07 April 2006
Ciaran O'Riordan and Gareth Bowker will speak in London on
why and what FSFE does to prevent legislative harm to
software freedom - harm such as that caused by patenting
software or distorting copyright. O'Riordan will also
discuss the GPLv3 and its year-long public consultation
process. Both will take questions.
18 March 2006
On 18th March, Richard Stallman will talk in Turin about the
future of Free Software, introducing the Italian audience to the updating
process of the GNU General Public License ("the GPL"), the license that
protects the freedom of about 100 million software users in the world,
being the most used license for Free Software.
Fellowship meeting in Vienna
17 March 2006
The third Austrian Fellowship meeting takes place on 17 March starting
at 18:00 in Vienna at the Cafe Panoptikum, Schultergasse 4, first
district.
This time Karin Kosina and Reinhard Müller want to give an overview of
the various projects FSFE is working on, and also continue the discussion
about Free Software in Austrian schools. Ideas for other topics are of
course welcome, too.
This invitation addresses to all people interested in FSFE or Free
Software. We are looking forward to many attendants!
25 – 26 February 2006
As every year, the Free Software Foundation Europe will participate
in the FOSDEM in Brussels, a European Free Software Developer
Conference. As every year, the FSFE Team will be speaking with many
people from the Free Software community, inform about its work and
this year even present a little surprise.
WIPO Provisional Committee on Proposals Related to a WIPO Development Agenda -- 1st Session, Geneva, Switzerland
20 – 24 February 2006
After the Inter-Sessional Inter-Governmental Meetings (IIM) on the
establishment of a Development Agenda at the United Nations World
Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), Georg C. F. Greve and
Karsten Gerloff of FSFE will also participate in the 2006 WIPO
Provisional Committee on Proposals Related to a WIPO Development
Agenda (PCDA) followup.
Berlin's second Fellowship meeting, Berlin, Germany
17 February 2006
The second Fellowship meeting takes place on 27. February at 19:00 at the
newthinking store, Tucholskystr. 48, Berlin. Main subject of the evening
will be the promotion of Free Software in Berlin. Everybody interested in
this is welcome to attend the meeting.
Free Software Foundation First International Conference on GPLv3
16 – 17 January 2006
FSF Europe, represented by Georg C. F. Greve, Ciaran O'Riordan, and Stefano
Maffulli, will participate in the presentation of a first discussion draft
on version 3 of the GNU General Public License at the Free Software
Foundation First International Conference on GPLv3, being held at the MIT
in Cambridge, USA.
Fellowship meeting in Vienna
13 January 2006
The second Austrian Fellowship meeting takes place on 13 January starting
at 18:00 in Vienna in the Otto-Wagner Pavillion near Karlsplatz in the
side room upstairs, right hand from the staircase.
Like last time, Karin Kosina and Reinhard Müller will inform about FSFE's
work, and we expect interesting discussions. A major discussion point
this time will be "Free Software in education".
This invitation addresses to all people interested in FSFE or Free
Software.