Sorry, I won't be able to make the meeting this evening, but would like to express support for Ciaran's proposal for reaching a decision on the committee:
The four being: me [i.e., Ciaran] malcolm aidan glenn
Thanks also for the updates on the EUCD implementation. I'd like to be involved in any letter-writing campaign once there's some concrete proposed legislation to campaign about.
It's also very interesting about the Software Patent directive falling in Ireland's presidency --- perhaps we'll be able to make a difference on this.
Ben.
Ben North wrote:
It's also very interesting about the Software Patent directive falling in Ireland's presidency --- perhaps we'll be able to make a difference on this.
Does anybody know yet which ministry is likely to be leading on this, and which minister and civil servants will be in charge?
It could be worth talking to MEPs again, to find out who exactly will be co-ordinating the show.
Also whether there's a chance of opening the discussion up a bit -- it's quite hard for them to try to pilot their way to a concensus, if they haven't got everybody in the tent.
The most important thing they are doing is handing the honors off, so the actors are different and 1) cannot be held accountable for the past history and 2) can be made to feel obligated to take a waffling ("compromise" or "balance") position until such time as they can be leaned on to listen to patent establishment "reason."
Seth
James Heald wrote:
Ben North wrote:
It's also very interesting about the Software Patent directive falling in Ireland's presidency --- perhaps we'll be able to make a difference on this.
Does anybody know yet which ministry is likely to be leading on this, and which minister and civil servants will be in charge?
It could be worth talking to MEPs again, to find out who exactly will be co-ordinating the show.
Also whether there's a chance of opening the discussion up a bit -- it's quite hard for them to try to pilot their way to a concensus, if they haven't got everybody in the tent.
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I'll be at the meeting tonight, one thing I'd like to discuss is organising projects into working groups (or something). Rather than have everyone focusing on one or two issues, it would be great if one, two, or three people could put effort into seperate issues.
Basically we need some way to make it easier for multiple projects to be worked on simultaneously. I know we're limited by person-power, but while three people work on the patentability directive, two others could announce that they'll be working on getting FS into schools, or something. It wouldn't really matter how much time they have to devote to this, because any non-zero value would be great.
anyway...
"Ben North" ben@redfrontdoor.org writes:
would like to express support for Ciaran's proposal for reaching a decision on the committee: >The four being: >me [i.e., Ciaran] >malcolm >aidan >glenn
ok. There's been no objection to this yet, it'll probably come up at the meeting, so if there's no major objections in the next 48hrs or so...
Thanks also for the updates on the EUCD implementation. I'd like to be involved in any letter-writing campaign once there's some concrete proposed legislation to campaign about.
definitely.
It's also very interesting about the Software Patent directive falling in Ireland's presidency --- perhaps we'll be able to make a difference on this.
There's been some concern over this in Brussels that Ireland would be more swayed by large software companies because of our fantastic software industry.
This is worth a note. Ireland is the largest software producing country in the world! (on paper.)
Ireland doesn't tax revenues from copyright revenues or patent royalties, so musicians and software companies buy houses and small offices in Ireland and filter their revenuse through us. We charge them no tax, and everyone things that Ireland makes loads of software. (and software developers in Ireland wonder where all these secret programming jobs are.)