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Free Software Business meetings and other events in Rome

Friday, June 8th, 2007

To confirm that June is a busy month I add some more important meetings to the list I wrote. They are all happening in Rome, during the Festival dell’Innovazione.

Roberto Galoppini, Nicola Mattina and others setup an informal session for Bruce Perens to meet the Italian blogosphere.

Tonight, starting at 8pm Arturo di Corinto will moderate a debate about Free Software between Ethics and Business, open issues and success stories asdf

On Saturday (tomorrow) Galoppini will be moderating a session on Commercial Open Source Software at the Auditorium Ara Pacis

Rome is upside down with all these meetings. There is even George W. Bush arriving today. I can only guess how happy romans are 🙂

June is a busy month

Wednesday, June 6th, 2007

What a month! This June is full of important dates, at least in Italy the Free Software enthusiasts have all weeks full.  Tomorrow Richard Stallman will speak in Rome at Università La Sapienza in Roma. He and Bruce Perens will also be heard later by the President of the Italian Chamber. Many Fellows will be there with FSFE merchandising: look for the "plussy" 🙂

Next Sunday, June 10th there will be the Pluto Meeting in Padova: special guest Richard Stallman that will receive the official paper attesting that Internation UNESCO  Clubs (FMACU) inserted the GNU Project into the list of World Treasures.

On June 12th in Milano I will participate to a panel promoted by AICT about Free Software trends where I have been asked to speak about DRM.

But first I will have to give a lesson to the Executive MBA in ICT students of Politecnico Business School, MIP on June 9th.  I’m preparing the slides now and I’ll publish them later.

 

And this is only the first half of the month 🙂 For the second half I think all FSFE will be super-busy preparing the yearly General Assembly in Bruxelles.

 

The Fellows connection

Friday, September 8th, 2006

Organizing a meeting like the Fellowship Meeting is not a piece of cake.  Luckily FSFE and its Fellows can count on a  wide international network of friends.  In this case our friends in Bolzano offered to co-locate the Fellowship Meeting with the South Tyrol Software Freedom Conference. 

Thanks to the friendship with SFSCon, the Fellows not only have the facility to meet in person but also enjoy a great deal of backend support for the logistics, like dealing with registration of attendees.  SFSCon has provided also special deal packages for accommodation.  It’s good to be part of a big community 🙂

Keep an eye here (constantly updated) and on the SFSCon web site to register soon.

The agenda of the meeting

Wednesday, September 6th, 2006

The agenda of the upcoming meeting of the Fellowship of FSFE is shaping slowly at the new discussion list. 

So far two proposals have been made and nobody objected on the list:

  • A report from FSFE Team about the work being done at EU level with the help and support of the Fellows
  • Advancing the Advocacy project: improve the material, involve more Fellows and gather ideas for local actions

We will have 4/5 hours, so there is space for another topic, at least.  And it is still possible to change them, if you hate them so much (and you are coming to Bolzano).  You should join the discussion now if you want to suggest your favorite topic or support the existing one. We should start fixing the agenda by next weekend, Sept.  9/10.

The reason for the Fellowship meeting

Tuesday, September 5th, 2006

During the discussion on the new list for Fellows it came out that the main reason for the upcoming international meeting of the Fellows is the opportunity for FSFE team members to meet and thank the Fellows for their help and support.

When the Fellowship was launched a comment appeared on the blog of a patent attorney.  He noted that "FSFE was calling its arms to the battle against software patents". 

Indeed, he was totally right: the Fellows have helped fighting and winning that battle, probably without even noticing.  It was thanks to the enthusiastic contributions of the first Fellows that FSFE was able to support Ciaran economically to be a lobbyist in Bruxelles instead of a bartender, as it seemed to be his destiny at that time.  Indeed, he did a great job, but a big thank you goes to all Fellows.

First proposals for the Fellowship meeting

Monday, September 4th, 2006

Fellow Shane has opened the new discussion list (Fellows: see your mailbox)  for the upcoming First International Meeting of the Fellowship.  Shane suggests to reserve some time to discuss about the Advocacy section of this website, its use and its future.  I think it’s a great idea.  What do you think?  Join the list or comment to this post.


Fellows get-together

Tuesday, August 29th, 2006

During a jabber session with Fellow Stephan Peijnik, awhile back he brought up the idea of a multinational Fellows conference, which we FSFEers think is a great idea. (You can read his thoughts about it on his blog).

Following Stephan’s idea, we’re announcing the first (of what we hope will be many) international get-together for Fellows.

We will have the opportunity to use as we see fit meeting space in Bolzano at the South Tyrol Free Software Conference 2006 (SFSCon) on Saturday, November 11.  There will be space for workshops, conferences and plain fun.

We are looking forward to hearing your proposals for Fellow time on the new mailing list and on the Fellowship jabber channel.

Keep in mind you are welcome to participate in the whole SFSCon2006, too (special lodging/meal packages are being arranged).