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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.

 

Italian LUGConfg over, don’t fly Alitalia

Monday, May 14th, 2007

Marco ‘mascotte’ aka Madero rocked presenting Advocacy. I’ll ask him to publish his slides because they were clear and straight to the point. His exposition of the project in front of the crowd was very good, too.  During the Q&A time we got many suggestions from other experiences advocating free software in Italian schools.  That’s the good part of having people in the same room listening: you get good suggestions and you exchange lots more information than using just mailing lists.

Overall, it was very positive event, until I had to take the plane.  Take off aborted for a technical problem. It wasn’t fun to feel the brakes at the last minute on the runway and it wasn’t fun to hear that by the time the problem was fixed (rapidly, in 30 minutes) the pilot would have finished his work hours.  So he just left and we had to wait 3 hours to get a new crew.  I made a mistake flying Alitalia again after 2 years boycott.  This company must happily die and make space for better enterprises.

ConfSL is over

Saturday, May 12th, 2007

With the final words from the representative of University, ConfSL 2007 has ended.  Shane’s speech was good and clear, I had the chance to introduce FSFE’s activities including SELF, STACS and the italian activities, like GNUvox.  I put the slides here.

Next year ConfSL probably will be in Trento, if there are no more candidates (said by the professor from stage).

Tomorrow will be total community day with the Italian LUGConf and the presentation of Advocacy by Fellow madero.

Going to Cosenza

Monday, May 7th, 2007

I’m getting ready to go to Cosenza to the ConfSL conference.  The good news is that Marco will come too: he has been developing Advocacy in Milano and I can’t wait to hear comments and suggestions from other members of the Italian community. 

Dido, president of Assoli, has also confirmed that he will travel to Cosenza. I can’t wait to talk to him too.  Assoli has been working very well in Italy and it has grabbed a huge success. I hope we’ll find projects we can do together.

PS a friend told me that these are my lucky numbers 🙂

09 F9 11 02
9D 74 E3 5B
D8 41 56 C5
63 56 88 C0

Getting to Cosenza

Tuesday, April 17th, 2007

For those considering going to Fellowship meeting in Cosenza, the closest airport is Lamezia Terme.  From there we can arrange a pickup by car (it’s a 40 minutes ride to from the airport to Cosenza).  I’m thinking of renting a car at the airport and to arrive earlier to appreciate the seaside 🙂  Let me know if you want to meet me there.

PS: my left harm is starting to hurt when I type. I hope it’s not RSI.

Meeting dei Fellow: Cosenza, 13 maggio 2007

Thursday, April 5th, 2007

Tra l’11 e il 13 Maggio 2007 si terrà a Cosenza la Conferenza Italiana sul Software Libero, un evento che ospiterà l’edizione 2007 della LUGConf italiana e un incontro dei Fellow italiani (nella mattinata di domenica 13).

Come per l’incontro di Bolzano i temi sono liberi e i dibattiti possibili sono tanti, da GPLv3 all’evoluzione dei DRM, oppure progetti propri della Fellowship come Advocacy. Fate sapere la vostra opinione sul forum oppure via email al sottoscritto.

Un riassunto delle proposte verrà aggiornato periodicamente sulla pagina del meeting.