Hi all,
For members of discussion@ that want to help raise awareness and encourage people to come to the GPLv3 conference, here is a sample text that can be sent to mailing lists or posted on forums. It includes the programme with the 16 speakers and panelists:
GPLv3: Barcelona, June 22nd & 23rd, to host international GPLv3 conference
Free Software Foundation Europe has been busy organising the third international GPLv3 conference. We invite you to attend, and ask attendees to register by emailing oriordan@fsfeurope.org with the exact phrase "GPLv3 registration" in the subject.
On the first day of the confernce, Thursday June 22nd, Georg Greve, Richard Stallman, and Eben Moglen will present the proposed changes for the third version of the GNU General Public License, as well as the year-long public consultation effort.
The second day, Friday June 23rd, will host panel discussions with participants from four continents discussing and taking questions on the subjects of DRM, GPL enforcement, the consultation process, awareness of GPLv3, and the current projets of FSFE. Pablo Machon will also speak on GPLv3 and the European campaign against software patents.
Information is available in eight languages on the webpage:
http://fsfeurope.org/projects/gplv3/europe-gplv3-conference
"People sometimes have the feeling that GNU GPL has been around forever, and they would not be entirely wrong. Published in 1991, the GNU GPL has proven to be exceptionally successful throughout the past fifteen years," says Greve. "With such an exceptional success, one will change as little as possible, but there have been changes in the legal and technical environment, and in the position of Free Software and its community, that have made some changes advisable. The process to update the licence is aiming at a global GPLv3 drafting team. Everyone is invited to participate: Joining the conferences is one of the best ways of doing so."
== June 22nd programme: presentations ==
Time Thursday, June 22nd
10:00 Registration of participants
10:30 Georg Greve: opening introduction
11:00 Richard Stallman: Overview of GPL v3 Changes
12:30 Ciarán O'Riordan: The public consultation process
13:00 Lunch
14:30 Eben Moglen: The wording of the changes
16:30 Discussion groups
17:00 Doors close
== June 23rd programme: panels ==
Time Friday, June 23rd
10:00 Doors open
10:30 Panel: Current projects of FSFE
* Carlo Piana (Tamos Piana & Partners), the MS anti-trust case * Pablo Machón, building the Spanish team * Ciaran O'Riordan, Legislation from Brussels * Stefano Maffulli, FSFE's Fellowship
11:30 Panel: Awareness and adoption of GPLv3
* Fernanda Weiden, Associação SoftwareLivre.org * Anne Ostergaard, GNOME Foundation * Alexandre Oliva, Free Software Foundation Latin America
12:30 Pablo Machón: GPLv3 and the European software patent struggle
13:00 Lunch
14:30 Panel: The Discussion Committees
* Niibe Yutaka, Free Software Initiative Japan (committee A) * Philippe Aigrain, Sopinspace (committee C) * Masayuki Hatta, Debian (committee D)
15:30 Panel: Enforcing the GPL, thwarting DRM
* Harald Welte, gpl-violations.org * David "Novalis" Turner, Free Software Foundation * Mathias Klang, Informatics researcher, University of Goteborg
16:30 Stefano Maffulli: Closing presentation
17:00 Doors close
For more information about the GPLv3 and the year-long public consultation, see:
http://www.fsfeurope.org/projects/gplv3/