Between June 2003 and April 2004 the main emphasis of FFII was work on the EU software patent directive.

Events July 2003-April 2004

• Booth at Linuxtag Karlsruhe July, Speech of Head of German Patent Senate Mellulis
• Presence in Brussels and Strasbourg July->September
• August 22 demo at Brussels
• September demos in Munich, Stuttgart, Berlin, Strasbourg, performance in Duesseldorf
• October linuxexpo Frankfurt
• handing in the petition 30 Sept in Brussels to petition committee
• WSIS Geneva Dec
• Comdex Gotenburg January
• FLOSS tel Geilenkirchen January (BOF)
• Parlamentary Evening Berlin 28 Jan and 10 Mar (Christian Cornelssen)
• Parlamentary hearings Sweden (Erik Josefsson)
• Parlamentary hearing Finland (Tapani Tavainen)
• February Rome booth
• Strasbourg February press conference on IPR Enforcement
• 2 March Warszawa conference (Halbersztadt)
• Praha meeting
• Strasbourg March demo IPR Enforcement

Calls, Petitions 4 * petition.eurolinux.org raised from 145,000 to over 300,000 supporters

• call for action i raised from 10,000 to over 50,000 supporters
• call for action ii about 2000 supporters (including MEPs from EPP, PS, VER, GUE)

Support of software for the public benefit

• linux server (Thomas Tanner, Bernhard Reiter)
• zope server (Wiebe van der Worp, Wouters)
• GNU groff (Werner Lemberg et al), standard part of most linux distributions
• MLHT http://mlht.ffii.org/, Hartmut Pilch, multilingual hypertext
• CJK for LaTeX http://cjk.ffii.org/

Virtual Association

• aktiv membership and action tool (Michael Wasmeier)
• mailing lists (quite a few)

Cooperation with other orgs

• Eurolinux with AFUL, LiVe, SSLUG, APRIL, GUUG, Prosa: hosted by us
• association with FSFE

Fundraising

• received total of EUR 80000 last year (orgs: OSI, APRIL, stichting.net, hispalinux, FiFF)

Challenges

• FFII structures at European level
• Brussels presence