[Fsfe-ie] Minutes 20040817
Glenn Strong
Glenn.Strong at cs.tcd.ie
Mon Aug 23 15:58:27 CEST 2004
Minutes from 20040817
Present: Glenn Strong
Malcolm Tyrrell
Teresa Hackett
Rory Browne
Conor Nash
Discussed:
* We should begin making arrangements for the AGM, etc. in
January. Working backwards from the dates, what is the latest people
can join and still vote? [update: AGM in January, 4 month lead time
on voting. Therefore, anyone wishing to vote must join by or at the
next meeting]
* Publicise a list of ways to donate or pay membership fees (cash,
cheque, EFT and Malcolm has offered to take PayPal)
* Related to the ongoing letterhead discussion, the idea of using a
PO box was raised again. Glenn agreed to price it and report back
to the committee.
* Malcolm agreed to find out what the ststus of the T-Shirts is and
report back.
* Discussion of the "free software day" event. It seems that there
will not be enough people available to commit to doing this
properly. There was agreement that the idea is worth pursuing, and
it was suggested that we move the event to Halloween and begin
publicising it properly now. As well as a possible showing of
the Revolution OS film some creative commons videos were
suggested. Exploring FSFE affiliation for the same event (and
tying the events together) was suggested. Inviting a speaker (such
as Georg Greve) was also discussed, and considered a good idea.
* The remainder of the time was taken up with a discussion of the
ongoing software patentability directive.
* Charlie McCreevy will be the commissioner responsible for this,
but will he be in place when the next decisions are made?
[update: no, which renders quite a bit of the subsequent
discussion irrelevant I fear]
* If so, we should figure out the best way to deal with
him. Since he is an Irish politician there was a feeling that
we may be in a good position to talk to him. We should
coordinate with organisations like FFII to ensure best
performance.
* Would Redhat Ireland be willing to get involved? [update: see
for rthe Redhat patent policy]. As a spin off question it was
asked if we could assemble a (even partial) list of Irish or
Irish based software companies that have a stated position on
software patentability.
http://www.redhat.com/legal/patent_policy.html
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Glenn Strong
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