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No holidays, two news from France :
1/ Round table about free software I'll participate to a round table about free software at the end of August, behalf FSFE, during the 22th "Summer School of the Communication" (Université d'Été de la Communication), at Hourtin (near Bordeaux). The others speakers are IBM, Microsoft and Bull representatives.
It's a very important political meeting, with many professional and political speakers (approximately 5 000 participants). During five days, it will be question of techniques and networks, debates about research, education, citizenship, trade, medias, regulation of the network, access to the knowledge ...
In 1997 at Hourtin, Lionel Jospin (French prime minister) has announced an important governmental action plan named "Information Society Law".
http://www.crepac.com/calendrier/evenement.asp?numero=327
2/ FSFE and Technopole Logiciel Libre
The FSF Europe, thru it's french chapter, and APRIL, brings officially his support to the "Technopole Logiciel Libre" ("Free Software Technopole") of Soissons. We'll provide expertise in free software field and we'll be involved in some projects.
See http://www.soissons-technopole.org/
To remember, report of our first contact in May :
URL : http://france.fsfeurope.org/news/article2001-05-09-01.en.html
Fred. - -- Petition contre les brevets logiciels http://petition.eurolinux.org/ Frederic Couchet Tel: 06 60 68 89 31 / 01 49 22 67 89 APRIL http://www.april.org/ Free Software Foundation Europe http://www.fsfeurope.org/