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PILCH Hartmut writes:
Hi,
I'd like to contribute a calendar of past and future events related to Software Patents to petition.eurolinux.org. I wanted this information and could not find it on the website.
Great idea!
I'll start doing this right away but wanted to send you a note in case something similar was on the way.
Someone on the cc-ed lists has been planning to produce a card game with some nice swpat pictures. But it seems he didn't get very far yet.
I should have not said calendar but agenda :-) Here is the first draft I produced:
http://www.fsfeurope.org/drafts/patents.en.html
The XML source is at
http://www.fsfeurope.org/drafts/patents-agenda.en.xml
I have a few questions related to this:
- Except for the 1st september 2001 milestone, I was not able to find out what are the next events that should be watched. Could you point me to a document that list them ? - I've not been able to spot documents related to lobbying activity except: petition, consultation, jp smets reports (where can I find an history of what happened with this document ?). Anyone could, in theory, get an appointment with EU officials on the subject of Software Patents. Did someone do that ? Where can I find a history of such lobbying activity.
- How can I integrate the agenda I built into petition.eurolinux.org ? Is it desirable, useless, too complex, not important ?
- I found here and there references to official positions taken by european governments on the subject of Software Patents but I could not find pointers giving proofs of such positions. Could you point to a specific document ?
Cheers,