[Lilux-info] Important: Conference and LUG in Brussels - please forward.

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Conferences and LUG in Brussels European Parliament room ASP 1G2 ________________________________________________________________ Most legal frame related to new technologies is cooked up at Brussels. To get a feet into European Parliament's door and show that you care right before the election (to whetten your appetite: its Members will decide on the patentability of software, on data privacy issues, TPRM, and so on), join an installfest within parliament (and bring your favorite MEP with you), attend a panel with ALAN COX, GEORG GREVE, Jon Lech Johansen or DVD JON (of decss fame), participate in a guided tour through brussels (anti-swpats "demo"), meet LUGs and programming rights groups from all over the place, or to meet some chaotic nerds of FFII book your hostel now. On 14 April evening, there will be a diner/party at restaurant La Tentation, in the center of Brussels. See http://plone.ffii.org/events/2004/ Entrance is free however to access the building you have to register online before 7 April http://www.greens-efa.org Contact : lvandewalle(a)europarl.eu.int euroLUGparty Brussels European Parliament room ASP 1G2 15 April 2004 ________________________________________________________________ The Greens in European parliament invite representatives of Linux Users Groups of the 25 Member States of the European Union to come to Brussels to - - enhance the networking among the free software community in Europe(in ~ particular with the New Member states) - - prepare the second reading on the software patents directive - - show inside EP what free software is, how it works and what ideas lie ~ behind - - participate to the FFII conference and demo against software patents on ~ 14 April Programme 9.00 Gathering European LUGs and associations for the promotion of free software (FFS Software - Austria, AFUL & APRIL, GUUG - Germany, ...) 11.00-12.30 Linux Install Party for Green candidates The morning session is chaired by Dany Cohn-Bendit MEP 15.00 PANEL I: PRIVATE COPY Jon Lech Johansen(DVD-Jon) Laurence Lebersorg(Test-Achat Belgium) Gwen Hinze(EFF) 15. 45 PANEL II: FREE/OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE Cristiano Paggetti(Italy): eGovernment - Free infrastructure Andrea Glorioso (Italy) : Free content Herman Bruynickx(Belgium): Free software in education Jens Muhlhaus(Germany): Public administration: Linux für Munchen 16.45 PANEL III : FREE AS IN FREEDOM Georg Greve, FSF Europe (Germany) Agenda 1910 Alan Cox www.linux.org.uk co-signatory of the letter sent by Linus Torvalds to the President of EP against software patents(UK)- tbc The afternoon session is chaired by Monica Frassoni MEP - -- Thierry Coutelier No Patents on Software: http://www.linux.lu/epatent