Organiser

This event is planned by Dany Cohn-Bendit and the Greens / European Free Alliance Group. It is not organized by FFII.

See the Greens/EFA site for latest information and for mandatory electronic registration or contact Laurence Van de Walle (lvandewalle at europarl eu int).

Purpose

• show inside EP what free software is, how it works and how it can be made productive for public administrations
• report about experiences with introduction of free software into administrations in member states (Germany, Spain, ...)
• think about possibilities of making free software work better at the EU level
• discuss current threats from extensions of digital exclusion right enforcement (DMCA, EUCD, IPRED)
• enhance the networking among the free software community in Europe, in particular with the New Member states
• synergy with FFII conference and demo against software patents on 14 April

Programme

09:00

LUG gathering

11:00-12:30

Linux Install Party for Green candidates

14:30

Panel I: Interoperability, Competition and Digital Rights

Jon Lech Johansen (DVD-Jon)

Yann Ménière (IT policy researcher, Paris)

Laurence Lebersorg (Test-Achat Belgium)

Gwen Hinze (EFF)

15:45

Panel II : Free/Opensource Software in the Public Sector

Christiano Paggetti (Italy) : eGovernment

Herman Bruynickx (Belgium): Free software in education

Jens Mühlhaus (Germany) : Linux für München

17:00

Panel III : Software and Freedom

Georg Greve, FSF Europe (Germany) on "Agenda 1910"

Alan Cox on the letter sent with Linus Torvalds to the President of EP

17:50

Conclusion