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).
Talk at "Nexell informiert", Zurich, Switzerland
04 December 2006
The president of FSFE, Georg Greve, will give a lecture titled "What is
Free Software and are Free Software solutions professional enough for our
daily business?" during the "Nexell informiert", in Zurich. The lecture
is starting on 4 December at 17:30 at "Schweizerisches Institut für
Betriebsökonomie".
"Nexell informiert" is a meeting where experts are invited to talk and
spread awareness about Free Software issues, organised by the Nexell,
an independent team of international and multilingual CRM professionals,
there to help customers find the right technologies, platforms and
solutions to meet their needs and budgets.
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.
21 – 22 November 2006
The 5th international conference on GPLv3 will be a 2-day event
held in Japan on November 21st and 22nd. Organised by Free
Software Initiative Japan, this event will host experts and
interested parties who will make presentations and participate
in discussions about Free Software's cornerstone licence. FSFE
will be represented by Georg Greve (President) and Ciarán
O'Riordan. The joint goals are to maximise awareness of the
GPLv3 process and to give attendees the information necessary to
make informed comments on the licence drafts and to help them to
explain the proposed changes to others.
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
FSFE will be present with a booth at the "Linuxworld Conference and
Expo", which takes place from 14 to 16 November in the "Koelnmesse" area
in Cologne, Germany.
11 November 2006
Fellows of FSFE mødes i Bolzano, Italien, under konferencen South
Tyrol Free Software Conference 2006 (SFSCon) lørdag den 11. november. Se
linket for mere ajourførte oplysninger.
07 November 2006
FSFE præsident, Georg Greve, vil holde et foredrag på tysk om
"Kommercielle, praktiske og fællesskabelige aspekter ved fri software"
under det kommende OpenTuesday-møde i Zürich. Foredraget begynder kl.
18.00 den 7. november.
OpenTuesday-møder er månedlige møder hvor eksperter inviteres til at tale
om spredte kendskabet til problemstillinger i forbindelse med fri software.
04 November 2006
Dublin, Ireland. Ciarán O'Riordan will give a presentation on
GNU GPLv3 regarding the state of the discussion and the options
open on DRM and tivoisation - using the Linux kernel as an
example. This presentation will be part a day-long event for
the 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
FSFE will be at the "LinuxWorld Expo" in London, on
the 25th/26th of October. FSFE will have a booth at the event.
Please come and visit us to learn more about Free Software, the
work of the FSFE and the Fellowship.
24 – 25 October 2006
Ved Internetdagarna 2006 i Stockholm, Sverige, vil FSFE's
vicepræsident, Jonas Öberg, deltage i en paneldiskussion om open
document-formater. FSFE vil også være til stede med en stand
under begivenheden.
Fellowship meeting in Vienna
20 October 2006
The fourth Austrian Fellowship meeting takes place on 20 October
starting at 18:00 in Vienna at the Metalab, Rathausstraße 6, first
district.
As usual, this invitation addresses to all people interested in FSFE or
Free Software. We are looking forward to many attendants!
Fellowship-møde i Düsseldorf
27 September 2006
Fellows fra Düsseldorf og omegn mødes den 27. september kl. 20.00 i
Cafe "Philipp", Furstenwall 120, Düsseldorf-Bilk, Tyskland.
Hvis du har i sinde at deltage, så giv besked til
contact (at) fsfe.org.
23 – 30 September 2006
Dette års årlige KDE-konference finder sted på Trinity College Dublin i
Irland. FSFE repræsenteres af Ciaran O'Riordan, der vil holde en
keynote-tale om softwarepatenter kl. 13.45 søndag den 24., og vil stå for
en Birds of a Feather
-session om GPLv3 fra 19.00 til 20.00 tirsdag
den 26. aKademy er generelt af teknisk natur.
21 – 22 September 2006
Georg Greve, FSFE's præsident, vil deltage i et policy-paneldebat
på workshop'en IPR-softwarebeskyttelse
, for at forklare og
uddybe fordele og udbytte af fri software-licensering.
Paneldebatten finder sted på workshoppens anden dag, den 22.
september kl. 13.00. Stedet er Hotel Linna, Helsinki.
15 September 2006
FSFE will organise a GPLv3 workshop at this year's
Wizards of OS conference in Berlin on Friday, September
15th, from 17h00 to 19h00. Georg Greve and Ciaran
O'Riordan will be joined by members of FSF Latin
America, FSFE's sister organisation, to present the main
changes proposed for GPLv3 and to examine to current
state of the public discussion process.
Fellowship meeting in Vienna
15 September 2006
The fourth Austrian Fellowship meeting takes place on 15 September
starting at 18:00 in Vienna at the Metalab, Rathausstraße 6, first
district.
As usual, this invitation addresses to all people interested in FSFE or
Free Software. We are looking forward to many attendants!
09 September 2006
At the "Tiroler Linuxtag", the last event in the Austrian "Linuxwochen"
series, both Reinhard Müller and Patrick Ohnewein hold a keynote.
Reinhard Müller gives a general overview on Free Software and informs
about the Fellowship, and Patrick Ohnewein speaks about CoCOS, a
competence center about Free Software, and about Free Software in
Southern Tyrol.
The event takes place on 9 September 2006 from 10:00 to 17:00 at the
UMIT, a private university in Hall in Tyrol. Admission is free.
30 August 2006
Ciaran O'Riordan will present, and will take questions on,
the main changes being made for version three of the GNU
GPL. The goal of this evening is to give members of the
Free Software community information to help them make
constructive criticism and to suggest improvements during
the remainder of the year-long public consultation
process.
Dataföreningen Region Vest, Göteborg, Sverige
29 August 2006
På et af de ordinære netværksmøder i Dataföreningen Region Vest, vil
viceprædient for FSFE, Jonas Öberg, give en oversigt over GPL version 3,
de foreslåede ændringer og baggrunden for dem.
23 – 24 August 2006
The 4th international conference for drafting version 3
of the GNU GPL will take place in Bangalore, India on August
23rd and 24th.
The goals of the international conferences are to raise
awareness of the proposed changes for the GNU GPL, and
to explain the public consultation process so as to
encourage maximal participation.
The 2nd draft of GPLv3, launched on July 27th, will be
discussed at this conference.
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's provisoriske komité om forslag med forbindelse til en WIPO-udviklingsagenda - andet møde i Geneve, Svejts
26 – 30 June 2006
Som del af FSFE's løbende arbejde på at få reformeret det globale system
til ophavsret, patenter og væremærker, vil Georg Greve, præsident for FSFE,
deltage i World Intellectual Property Organizations (WIPO) andet møde i den
provisoriske komité om forslag med forbindelse til en WIPO-udviklingsagenda
(WIPO Development Agenda, PCDA), da han også deltog i det første møde i
februar 2006. Mødet finder sted hos FN i Geneve.
22 – 23 June 2006
På denne internationale to-dages konference, vil ekspert i GPLv3 og fri
software-licensering præsentere de foreslåede ændringer til fri softwares
højrestens-licens, GNU General Public License. Eksperterne vil også
besvare spørgsmål fra deltagerne og der vil blive afholdt debatter om
emnet. De fælles mål er at skabe opmærksomhed om GPLv3-processen, samt
give deltagerne de oplysninger, der er nødvendige for at kunne forklare
de foreslåede ændringer til andre.
16 June 2006
Fri software møder digital livsstil: Fredag den 16. juni vil Georg Greve
holde et foredrag under Dorkbot Swiss-mødet på Kunstraum Walcheturm i
Zürich, Schweiz, kl. 20.00. Begivenheden vil primært fokusere på den
digitale friheds sociale problemstillinger.
31 May – 02 June 2006
Østrigs største fri software-begivenhed finder sted fra onsdag den 31. maj
2006, kl. 10.00, til fredag den 2. juni 2006, kl. 22.00, i Urania-bygningen,
Uraniastraße 1, ersten Bezirk, Wien. Der er fri adgang.
FSFE vil være til stede med en stand. På alle begivenhedens tre dage vil
medlemmer af FSFE, Fellows og frivillige være på standen for at informere
om FSFE's arbejde og om Fellowship'et.
Onsdag den 31. maj kl. 20.00 holder Karin Kosina et foredrag om "Fri
software for frie mennesker", hvorunder hun introducerer Free Software
Foundation Europe.
15 – 19 May 2006
På den femte System Administration and Network Engineering Conference i
Delft, vil Georg Greve, præsident for FSFE, introducere GPL version 3,
de foretagne ændringer, baggrunden for dem, og hvordan man kan deltage i
processen til sikring af at GPLv3 bliver den bedste GPL, som vi i
fællesskab kan skabe.
03 – 06 May 2006
Som det er tilfældet hvert år, vil FSFE deltage i GNU/LinuxTag, der siden
1996 har været et af højdepunkterne i fri software-året. Der er
deltagelse af mange frivillige og der vil være præsentationer til
spredning af viden om fri software og FSFE's arbejde. Man kan møde mange
af FSFE's aktivister, og kan deltage i deres foredrag om WIPO, GPLv3,
DRM og andre emner.
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.
Høring i monopolsagen mod Microsoft ved EU-domstolen i Luxembourg
24 – 28 April 2006
Storjuryen ved EU-domstolen er klar til den store høring i monopolsagen
mod Microsoft. Høringen finder sted i EU-domstolens Grande Salle, fra den
24. til 28. april. Georg Greve, præsident for FSFE, Carlo Piana, FSFE's
advokat på sagen, og Andrew Tridgell fra Samba-teamet vil være til stede
for at forsvare retten mod Microsofts juridiske holds arbejde med endnu en
gang at omgå deres forpligtelser.
21 – 23 April 2006
På den første internationale konference om adgang til viden (Access to
Knowledge), der holdes på Yale Law School, vil Karsten Gerloff være
ordstyrer i en paneldiskussion om "Licensskeletter for adgang til viden."
Konferencens mål er at skabe et nyt analytisk skelet til analysering af
mulige ødelæggende effekter ved offentlige politikker, der udelukkende
baserer sig på ophavsret og patenter. Deltagerne vil se på alternative
måder at fremelske større adgang til viden i det digitialt forbundne
miljø.
Syvende Free Software Forum, Porto Alegre, Brasilien
19 – 22 April 2006
Den syvende udgave af Free Software Forum (FISL) vil igen blive
afholdt i Porto Alegre, Brasilien, og vil også være vært for den
anden internationale konference om GPLv3. FSFE vil være
repræsenteret under denne begivenhed af sin præsident, Georg
Greve, og FSFE's Bruxelles-repræsentant, Ciaran O'Riordan. Begge
vil tale ved GPLv3-begivenheden, og deltage under FISL's
hovedbegivenhed: Georg Greve vil holde et af åbningsforedragene,
om "Free Software - Social Movement or Technological Revolution?"
("Fri software - social bevægelse eller teknologisk revolution?")
og Ciaran O'Riordan vil tale om arbejdet mod softwarepantenter.
Begge vil også samarbejde med FSFE's søsterorganisation, FSF Latin
America, samt mødes med det lokale fri software-fællesskab for at
styrke det internationale fri software-netværk.
07 April 2006
Ciaran O'Riordan og Gareth Bowker vil holde en tale i London om
hvorfor og hvad FSFE gør for at forhindre lovmæssig overlast på
softwarefrihed - overlast så som den, der forårsages ved patentering
af software eller forvanskning af ophavsret. O'Riordan vil også
diskutere GPLv3 og dens over et år lange offentlige høringsproces.
Begge talere vil besvare spørgsmål.
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.