Actually, having limited space is a good news. ;-) With a bit of mobilisation we can make it a very visible event inside the European Parlement. If people need to stack in order to participate, there is obviously a big interest on this topic.
The most important information is that in order to get physical access to within the European Parlement, you need to be identifyed as comming to the conference (security issue).
This mean you have to contact first: Laurence Van de Walle lvandewalle@europarl.eu.int If ever the room is overfull, she will tell you.
Other working link: http://www.greens-efa.org/fr/press/detail.php?id=1176&lg=fr A few news over the net: http://www.e-arenas.org/FRhome.asp#2065 Even more interesting link on Linux FR http://linuxfr.org/2002/11/15/10322.html where people organise themself to get from various location in France.
Translation and similar news into your news site or your mailing list are welcome. Various Belgian Linux User Group have been contacted. Belgian University and Computer Science dep. should start soon.
Poster are available from Laurence Van de Walle if you have a public place with a lot of potential interested people (University, User Group, ...).
David GLAUDE
From: "Xavi Drudis Ferran" xdrudis@tinet.org Subject: [Osdem]RMS et al on software patents at the European Parliament
The next event is a conference in the European Parliament in Brussels, tuesday, november the 26th. Important speakers will be present to discuss about the effects of software patents, the proposed directive and what to do about it. There will be free software representatives such as Richard M. Stallman, academics like François Pellegrini (of Libre Software Meeting fame) or Brian Kahin from the University of Maryland, , representatives of innovative software companies in Europe, patent experts and of course members of the European Parliament (MEPs).
The good news is that it is a public conference and anybody can go. The bad news is that capacity is limited. The program and contact information for registration (free registration is required) is at
http://www.greens-efa.org/en/agenda/detail.php?id=770&lg=fr http://www.greens-efa.org/fr/agenda/detail.php?id=770&lg=fr
Xavi Drudis Ferran xdrudis@tinet.org