Events
Event Archive for 2006
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).
      
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!
      
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
 The Fellows of FSFE will meet in Bolzano at the South Tyrol
    Free Software Conference 2006 (SFSCon) on Saturday, November 11.
    Check the link for more up to date information.
       
07 November 2006
      The president of FSFE, Georg Greve, will give a lecture titled "Kommerzielle, praktische und gesellschaftliche Aspekte Freier Software" during the forthcoming OpenTuesday meeting, in Zurich. The lecture is starting at 18:00, 7th of November.
      
      OpenTuesday meetings are monthly meetings where experts are invited to talk and spread awareness about Free Software issues.
       
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
At the Internet days 2006 in Stockholm, Sweden, FSFE vice
          president Jonas Öberg will participate in a panel discussion
          on open document formats. The FSFE will also be present with
          a booth during the event.
       
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 meeting in Dusseldorf
27 September 2006
      Fellows from Dusseldorf and the surrounding area meet on 27
      September at 20:00 in the Cafe "Philipp", Furstenwall
      120, Dusseldorf-Bilk. Please inform contact (at) fsfe.org
      if you are planning to join.
      
23  – 30 September 2006
      This year's annual KDE conference will be held in Trinity
      College Dublin, Ireland.  FSFE will be represented by Ciaran
      O'Riordan who will deliver a keynote on Software Patents at
      13:45 on Sunday the 24th, and will lead a Birds of a Feather
      session on GPLv3 from 19:00 to 20:00 on Tuesday th 26th.
      aKademy is generally technical in nature.
       
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.
             
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!
      
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.
             
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 West, Göteborg, Sweden
29 August 2006
      At one of the regular networking meetings of Dataföreningen
      Region West, Jonas Öberg, vice president of FSFE, will give an
      overview of the GPL version 3, the proposed changes and the
      rationale of them.
      
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 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
      At this two day international conference, the experts on GPLv3
      and Free Software licencing will present the proposed changes to
      Free Software's corner stone licence, the GNU General Public
      License.  The experts will also take questions from attendees
      and topical discussions will be organised.  The joint goals are
      to raise awareness of the GPLv3 process and to give attendees
      the information necessary to explain the proposed changes to
      others.
       
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.