[Fsfe-ie] Green Party link: Fsfe-ie Digest, Vol 3, Issue 5

[Mel McWeeney]

Guys,
I was forwarded this link from a MiLUG member (Catherine Ansbro) who stood for the green party in the last General Election.
It dates back to May this year.

http://www.greens-efa.org/en/agenda/detail.php?id=998&lg=en

Mel


On Sat, 9 Aug 2003 12:00:14 +0200
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> Date: Fri, 08 Aug 2003 09:41:50 -0700
> From: jm at jmason.org (Justin Mason)
> To: adelaney at cs.may.ie
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> Subject: Re: [Fsfe-ie] Summary of meeting #2 
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> In-Reply-To: <200308080925.18634.adelaney at cs.may.ie> 
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> Aidan Delaney writes:
> > > Discussion topics, and suggestions:
> > >
> > >   The EU patents inflation directive
> > >     need to understand what exactly is happening on Sept 1st
> > >     Find out what ammendments will be voted on
> > >     Draft a benchmark for our MEPs: unless ammendments X and Y
> > >       are inplemented, you must vote no.
> > 
> > We need to get on top of this immediatly.  Maybe do the whole "adopt an MEP"
> > thing.
> 
> BTW I agree strongly -- the MEPs I've contacted do know that the current
> proposal is bad, but there does not seem to be an alternative set of
> amendments that we can point to and say "but these are good".   Without
> that I'd be concerned that there'd be a lot of confusion, with possibly
> bad results.
> 
> Have the Greens/EFA produced any guidelines, anyone know?  They seemed
> to be most on top of it of any of the large groups.
> 
> --j.
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> Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2003 19:03:34 +0100
> From: "Ciaran O'Riordan" <ciaran at member.fsf.org>
> To: fsfe-ie at fsfeurope.org
> Subject: Re: [Fsfe-ie] Summary of meeting #2
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> On Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 09:25:37AM +0100, Aidan Delaney wrote:
> > On Thu 07 Aug 2003 21:33, Ciaran O'Riordan wrote:
> >
> > >     need to understand what exactly is happening on Sept 1st[...]
> > >     Draft a benchmark for our MEPs: unless ammendments X and Y
> > >       are inplemented, you must vote no.
> > 
> > We need to get on top of this immediatly.  Maybe do the whole "adopt an MEP"
> > thing.
> 
> How about a one page summary of our wants, signed by as many
> as possible?  (I'm kinda working a draft for which I plan to hand
> over to the list for peer review & alterations)
> Good for faxing/mailing/showing to MEPs etc.
> 
> > >   When should we set up an organisation?
> > >     Maybe late January
> > I'd like to get ifso.ie a bit sooner
> 
> I agree, we should grab it asap.
> Jan 5th is the 20th anniversary of RMS beginning the GNU project,
> it would be pretty sweet if we could found our org on that date.
> 
> > >   How should we decide the committee?
> > >     Democracy? maybe but we don't know eachother very well yet.
> > >     5-person agreement? and real elections in 1 year. maybe.
> > I'm open to this suggestion.
> 
> The 5-person agreement suggestion? (or the democracy)
> 
> > >   An FSFE-IE website?
> >
> > [...] maybe we could
> > start out with linux.ie/ifso (ask the ilug guys) or some other free software
> > related group.
> 
> I'm apprehensive about implying affiliation with any groups
> that don't share our purpose.  fsf.org and fsfeurope.org won't
> allow us to host a subpage on their URL, affs.org.uk probably
> would.
> 
> I'd opt for fasttracking the ifso.ie instead though.
> (comments?)
> ...or if a linux.ie/page is set up for us should we avoid using the ifso name?
> 
> Has anyone here registered a .ie before?
> 
> (I'm offering to foot the bill but I don't know the process involved.
>  Ownership would rest with whoever registers it, ownership would be
>  handed over to ifso when ifso is founded.)
> 
> ciaran.
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