[ILUG] Richard Stallman here giving a talk on software patents (May 24th, monday, 1930h, TCD)

[Ciaran O'Riordan]

John Madden writes:
> On (14/05/04 20:55), Ciaran O'Riordan didst pronounce:
> > Title: "The Dangers Of Software Patents"
> > Date:  Monday the 24th of May

> Any chance you could record or transcribe the speach an put it online
> aswell?

We're gonna try to get it online in audio and video, but it depends on
having equipment, particularly the Q&A afterwards will need some spare
microphones etc. - we'll do our best.  I hadn't thought of making a
transcript, maybe.

> > We should also have a bunch of good hand outs 

> Again, any chance they could be made available online?

All hand outs will be put online asap.  This is something we've been meaning
to do for a while, but haven't made the time.

Some example letters are here:
http://ifso.ie/documents/swpats-council-00.html
http://ifso.ie/documents/swpats-meps-00.html
http://mail.fsfeurope.org/pipermail/fsfe-ie/2004-May/001022.html
http://mail.fsfeurope.org/pipermail/fsfe-ie/2004-May/001029.html

And details for who to send letters to are here:
http://www.fergaldaly.com/patents/pat-contacts.html

In the September vote, MEPs complained about getting too much mail, saying
they were drowning in it - so go for quality not quantity.

We haven't yet found/written a concise explanation of how the legislative
process works, or who has a say in it, but we'll do that this week.

-- 
Ciarán O'Riordan
http://www.compsoc.com/~coriordan/
Irish Free Software Organisation: http://ifso.ie