From the Outside: Brussels Events in April

Item posted by Mathieu Roy <yeupou> on Sun 21 Mar 2004 01:22:41 PM UTC.

A combination of events in Brussels for freedom of access to information infrastructures, including academic preparatory conference, street performance, march from Parliament to Council and Commission, press conference, ffii assembly, dinner with Members of European Parliament and their staff and conference of the Greens/EFA in the Parliament, will take place the 2004/04/14 and 2004/04/15.

Schedule of 2004-04-14:
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This part is organised by FFII.

10:00
Press Conference
11:30
Demo, Street Performance, March
14:00
Conference on Software Patents
18:30
Dinner at La Tentation
20:00
FFII General Assembly

Schedule of 2004-04-15
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This part is organised by the Greens/EFA Group.

09-17:30
European Free Software meeting

Participants to the 2 days :
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(not all confirmed yet)

Hakon Wium Lie (Opera)
Alan Cox (Redhat)
Jon Johannsen (DeCSS)
Jean-Paul Smets (Nexedi)
Philippe Aigrain (formerly European Commission)
Prof. Bernard Lang (INRIA)
Hartmut Pilch (FFII)
Rishab Ayer Ghosh (MERIT International Institute of Infonomics)
Luc Soete (MERIT International Institute of Infonomics)
Robin Cowen (MERIT International Institute of Infonomics)
Reinier Bakels
Prof. Harhoff (Innotec München)
Prof. Brian Kahin (UMich)
Jim Bessen (MIT)
Carsten Svaneborg (Max-Planck Inst., softwarepatenter.dk)
Georg Jakob (Univ. of Salzburg, AFFS)
Robert Dewar (CEO of ACT Europe)
Jacob Hallén (CEO of Strakt AB)
Jozéf Halbersztadt (ISOC Poland, patent examiner at Polish Patent Office)
Piia-Noora Kauppi MEP (PPE-DE)
Daniel Cohn-Bendit MEP (Verts-ALE)
Olga Zrihen MEP (PSE)
Jens-Peter Bonde MEP (EDD)
Johanna Boogerd MEP (ELDR)
Edoardo Ferrara (GUE)

More information at: http://plone.ffii.org/events/2004/bxl04/