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2005-December-4
The November 18th IFSO event, "Preventing Software
Patents: Why and How", was a great success.
Transcripts, audio &
video recordings, and slides from the talks are now available on the
event's page.
IFSO would again like to thank the office of MEP Proinsias De Rossa,
for hosting the event, as well as the many members of IFSO who
contributed to making this event what it was. Thanks to all.
2005-October-19
Announcement: On the morning of Friday November 18th,
IFSO is organising an event hosted by MEP Proinsias De Rossa about
Saving Europe from Software Patents.
Topics covered will be:
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An analysis of the software patent directive;
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a discussion of Free Software and computer security;
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an introduction to IFSO/FSFE and their work;
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the future of legislative obstacles to the development and distribution of software.
For more information, see the
Event Page.
2005-September-1
From August 30th to September 1st, members of IFSO met with Beatriz
Busaniche. Topics discussed included the setting up of the FSF Latin America, as well as plenty
of socialising and general software freedom discussions.
2005-July-19
Announcement: On Thursday 21st, ILUG and IFSO will be hosting a talk by
Ciarán O'Riordan.
Ciaran has been lobbying in Brussels to keep Europe free of software
patents.
The topic of the talk will be the next moves in the campaign.
The venue is the ICS
building, Mount St. Upper. The talk will start at 1930h.
2005-July-06
European parliament has voted 648:14 to reject the directive on computer
implemented inventions. More information.
2005-June-30
Press release: SOFTWARE PATENTS BAD FOR SMES
(or as plain text).
2005-June-20
IFSO sends this e-mail to Brian Crowley MEP who sits on the Juri committee of the European Parliment.
2005-April-05
IFSO's application to become an associate organisation of the
Free Software Foundation
Europe has been approved. We are
now an
official associate organisation.
2005-March-31
The motion in the DCU debate (see below) was carried.
A video of the debate was made, and is available here.
2005-March-27
The DCU debating society in conjunction with Redbrick (the DCU network society) will hold a debate on the motion "That this House thinks that Software Patents within the European Union is a Bad Idea". The debate will be held on Wednesday 30th of March, in CG 86 (in the Henry Gratton building) at 6pm. Malcolm Tyrrell from IFSO will be one of the speakers at the debate. full details (including other speakers).
2005-March-19
The IFSO AGM will be held on March 23. Details to be found at the wiki.
2005-March-04
IFSO e-mails the Irish representative on the Competitiveness Council,
Micheál Martin (the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment), calling on
him to object when the software patent directive is tabled as an "A-item". The
text of the e-mail is here: 20050304swpats-council.txt.
2005-February-16
IFSO faxes this letter
to Commissioner McCreevy, asking him to honour JURI's request for a restart.
2005-February-02
JURI decide to ask the Commission for a renewed referral. This is a major setback for the proponents of the current Council draft.
Information at the FFII wiki, FSFE-IE list, and the IFSO Wiki.
2005-January-28
IFSO faxes this letter to Brian Crowley, MEP, urging him to support a restart motion when the JURI committee considers the software patent directive.
2005-January-21
IFSO faxes this letter to Mary Coughlan, requesting that she object if the Software
Patents directive is put forward as an A-item at the agriculture meeting.
2005-January-20
Recordings of Georg Greve's talk are now available from the
Netsoc page.
They are licensed under a Creative Commons License.
2005-January-20
For the new year, IFSO has decided to reduce the price of its t-shirts.
They are now €12 for members and €14 for non-members.
They are available in white, red and blue and in sizes XL, L, M and S, but
please note that we have sold out of size S in blue.
Contact us if you would like one.
2005-January-10
On Friday, Jan 14th 2005, the UCD internet society, Netsoc, in association with IFSO, will be hosting a talk by Georg Greve, president of the Free Software Foundation Europe.
The talk will be on the challenges to Free Software in the digital age and about the work of the Free Software Foundation Europe.
The talk is open to the public and will be held in Theatre Q of the
UCD Arts Block at 19:30 on Friday, January 14th.
For more details, see the Netsoc page.
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