Seen as you're talking about it:
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From: Steve Purkiss steve@open4.org To: Lsp-Discussion lsp-discussion@linuxsolutionproviders.co.uk Subject: [LSP-discussion] Richard Stallman 2nite Date: Fri, 21 May 2004 12:36:09 +0100
I'm tempted... anyone else going?
Date: 20 May 2004 23:53:20 -0000 From: uk-help@ffii.org To: aaron@aaronhorn.co.uk Subject: Today (Friday): Richard Stallman and MEP candidates - patents meeting in London
Dear FFII supporter,
Richard Stallman will be giving a one hour talk on software patents in London tonight (Friday).
Following the talk, a panel of representatives from the political parties will comment, and lay out their party positions.*
Richard Stallman "The Dangers of Software Patents" Friday 21 May, 6pm Cruciform Building, Lecture Theatre #1, University College London, Gower Street.The event is free, and all are welcome.
Nearest tubes are: Euston Square (Circle line, Metropolitan line) Warren Street (Victoria line, Northern line)
Map: http://www.bcsb.lon.ac.uk/map_mainsiteb&wcrucihighlighted.jpg
- Green party, Lib Dems, and UKIP representatives now confirmed.
Labour and Conservative participation pending.
Organised by the Foundation for Information Policy Research (FIPR), in association with the Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure (FFII).
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On Friday 21 May 2004 14:54, Steve Purkiss wrote:
Seen as you're talking about it:
If I'd found out about it sooner I would have like to have gone. I saw RMS do his software patents talk in London last year. The talk was very good, the QA afterwards was rather uncomfortable due to RMS's notorious crankiness.
Joe
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From: Steve Purkiss steve@open4.org To: Lsp-Discussion lsp-discussion@linuxsolutionproviders.co.uk Subject: [LSP-discussion] Richard Stallman 2nite Date: Fri, 21 May 2004 12:36:09 +0100
I'm tempted... anyone else going?
Date: 20 May 2004 23:53:20 -0000 From: uk-help@ffii.org To: aaron@aaronhorn.co.uk Subject: Today (Friday): Richard Stallman and MEP candidates - patents meeting in London
Dear FFII supporter,
Richard Stallman will be giving a one hour talk on software patents in London tonight (Friday).
Following the talk, a panel of representatives from the political parties will comment, and lay out their party positions.*
Richard Stallman "The Dangers of Software Patents" Friday 21 May, 6pm Cruciform Building, Lecture Theatre #1, University College London, Gower Street.The event is free, and all are welcome.
Nearest tubes are: Euston Square (Circle line, Metropolitan line) Warren Street (Victoria line, Northern line)
Map: http://www.bcsb.lon.ac.uk/map_mainsiteb&wcrucihighlighted.jpg
- Green party, Lib Dems, and UKIP representatives now confirmed.
Labour and Conservative participation pending.
Organised by the Foundation for Information Policy Research (FIPR), in association with the Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure (FFII).
Uk-help maillist Subscribe through the project system http://www.ffii.org/assoc/knecht/proj/, fine-tune via http://lists.ffii.org/mailman/listinfo/uk-help http://lists.ffii.org/mailman/listinfo/uk-help
On 2004-05-21 16:00:33 +0100 Joe Button alug@joebutton.co.uk wrote:
If I'd found out about it sooner I would have like to have gone. [...]
It was only confirmed yesterday. I have heard a few talks about this recently and am working with the organisers of the talk, so I'm quite happy to prepare a short presentation (a bit more formal than some of mine) for Syleham on 30 May if some people are interested. Yes, no?
-----Original Message----- From: main-admin@lists.alug.org.uk [mailto:main-admin@lists.alug.org.uk] On Behalf Of MJ Ray Sent: 21 May 2004 16:11 To: main@lists.alug.org.uk Subject: Re: [ALUG] Software patents...
On 2004-05-21 16:00:33 +0100 Joe Button alug@joebutton.co.uk wrote:
If I'd found out about it sooner I would have like to have gone. [...]
It was only confirmed yesterday. I have heard a few talks about this recently and am working with the organisers of the talk, so I'm quite happy to prepare a short presentation (a bit more formal than some of mine) for Syleham on 30 May if some people are interested. Yes, no?
Yes please.
Cheers, BJ
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On Fri, 2004-05-21 at 18:38, John Woodard wrote:
-----Original Message----- From: main-admin@lists.alug.org.uk [mailto:main-admin@lists.alug.org.uk] On Behalf Of MJ Ray It was only confirmed yesterday. I have heard a few talks about this recently and am working with the organisers of the talk, so I'm quite happy to prepare a short presentation (a bit more formal than some of mine) for Syleham on 30 May if some people are interested. Yes, no?
Yes please.
I'd be interested too :)
/Kirsten
On Friday 21 May 2004 16:10, MJ Ray wrote:
I'm quite happy to prepare a short presentation (a bit more formal than some of mine) for Syleham on 30 May if some people are interested. Yes, no?
I'd be interested if it was on another date, and more interested still if it was in Norwich.
Really I just want someone to tell me what to do, rather than explain the issues. I'm happy to lobby my MEP but I don't know what I'm supposed to suggest that he does at the moment.
On 2004-05-22 11:55:18 +0100 Joe Button alug@joebutton.co.uk wrote:
I'd be interested if it was on another date, and more interested still if it was in Norwich.
That was the meeting already set and there's not a Norwich meeting before it AFAIK. I have to travel over twice as far as Norwich-Diss... surely one of the Norwich people can give a lift if you want?
Really I just want someone to tell me what to do, rather than explain the issues. I'm happy to lobby my MEP but I don't know what I'm supposed to suggest that he does at the moment.
Give us a few days and we'll have background material, along with questions to ask the MEP candidates. Some of it is already linked on the site, but not all yet. I don't know all of this either, but the bottom line seems to be we need the amendments reinstated at the second EuroParl reading, or the thing rejected completely.
I need to explain the issues too because I need help in two ways, both lobbying/questioning MEPs and in organising that.
On Saturday 22 May 2004 13:40, MJ Ray wrote:
On 2004-05-22 11:55:18 +0100 Joe Button alug@joebutton.co.uk wrote:
I'd be interested if it was on another date, and more interested still if it was in Norwich.
That was the meeting already set and there's not a Norwich meeting before it AFAIK. I have to travel over twice as far as Norwich-Diss... surely one of the Norwich people can give a lift if you want?
If either the date or the location was better for me I could probably make it, but the combination of both is awkward. It's not that I'm aversed to travelling to Syleham on principle, but I'm probably going to be rather occupied that day.
Really I just want someone to tell me what to do, rather than explain the issues. I'm happy to lobby my MEP but I don't know what I'm supposed to suggest that he does at the moment.
Give us a few days and we'll have background material, along with questions to ask the MEP candidates. Some of it is already linked on the site, but not all yet. I don't know all of this either, but the bottom line seems to be we need the amendments reinstated at the second EuroParl reading, or the thing rejected completely.
Thanks for being on the case with this, I'm very glad someone is. If you'd like any help with web development for Project Eurovote (eg. database backend, online updating of votes) I'd be happy to have a look.
Please keep us posted of any developments.
Cheers,
Joe
On 2004-05-22 14:38:16 +0100 Joe Button alug@joebutton.co.uk wrote:
[...] It's not that I'm aversed to travelling to Syleham on principle
OK, I'm probably being a little oversensitive. I've had a couple of people do the "yes, this is great and really important! but no, I won't help because I need to wash the cat continuously for the next month" (or something making about as much sense as a reason not to help a little) on me since the link from ntk.net yesterday. Noomeeja, tchah!
like any help with web development for Project Eurovote (eg. database backend, online updating of votes) I'd be happy to have a look.
Keep an eye on http://mjr.towers.org.uk/proj/eurovote/#promote for links/appeals for web development. At the moment, I've had the publicwhip code mentioned (linked from there), but I've not yet had time to find out if its data input format is sane, because I've been looking at the datasets I was sent yesterday.
Please keep us posted of any developments.
I'll try. I have a "eurovote news" list I will subscribe anyone to, but I'll try to post to alug lists, too, when I get time.
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