Thursday, 15 April 2004 at 09:00 AM in Bruxelles/Brussel

euroLUGparty
A conference with Linux Users Groups
European Parliament - Spinelli building
Petra Kelly Room (ASP 01G2)

The Greens in the European Parliament invite representatives of Linux Users Groups of the 25 Member States of the European Union to a meeting in Brussels with a view to enhance the networking among the free software community in Europe in order to prepare the second reading on the software patents directive (in particular with the New Member states), to inform within the EP about what free software is, how it works and which ideas lie behind.

This conference takes place the day after the conference and demonstration against swpats organised by FFII and Eurolinux in Brussels.

Info : Laurence Vandewalle - lvandewalle@europarl.eu.int

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PROGRAMME OF THE MEETING

Chair: Daniel Cohn-Bendit, MEP

9:00-11:00 25 G/LUGs for a Free Europe

Gathering European GNU/Linux Users Groups and associations for the promotion of free software : BxLUG - Belgium, RWO - Plug - Poland, Vrijschrift - The Netherlands, LiLux - Luxemburg, FFS Software - Austria, APRIL - HNS-info.net - France, GUUG - Germany, SSLUG - Sweden&Denmark, LUGOS - Slovenia, Debian - Latvia, AKL - Lithuania, LugRoma - Italy, Greece, Cyprus,...

11:00-12:30 Linux Install Party for MEps with Monica Frassoni Dany Cohn-Bendit, Hiltrud Breyer, Bart Staes, H�l�ne Flautre ... organized by BxLug

15:00 PANEL I: FAIR USE / COPIE PRIV�E

  • Gwen Hinze (Electronic Fronteer Foundation)
  • Laurence Lebersorg (Test-Achat Belgium)
  • Jon Lech Johansen (DVD-Jon)
  • 16:00 PANEL II : FREE/OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE

    17:00 PANEL III : FREE AS IN FREEDOM

    17:30 Alan Cox, www.linux.org.uk co-signatory of the letter sent by Linus Torvalds to the President of EP against software patents(UK)

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    This event takes place the day after the conference and demonstration against swpats organised by FFII and Eurolinux in Brussels.

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