ALUG Announce

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1. 5th Birthday Meeting at City Gate, Norwich, Sunday 2 May 2004 http://lists.alug.org.uk/main/2004-April/018432.html

2. Norwich UEA meeting, Sunday 27 June 2004 http://lists.alug.org.uk/main/2004-April/018481.html

National: --------

1. NotCon '04, Sunday 6th June 2004, Imperial College Union, London http://www.notcon04.com/ Proposals due by: Friday 14th May 2004

2. The EU Irish Presidency text rejects all amendments made by the European Parliament and pushes for direct patentability of computer programs, data structures and process descriptions. The Patent Department at Nokia is collecting signatures from top company executives for a "Call for Action" in favour of the Presidency text. http://www.ffii.org.uk/ http://swpat.ffii.org/

3. Rally in Brussels on 14 April under the slogan "No Software Patents -- Power to the Parliament" http://demo.ffii.org/ was covered by some tv channels.