I just encounted this report:
http://www.forfas.ie/publications/show/pub238.html
"Forfás is the national policy and advisory board for
enterprise, trade, science, technology and innovation."
"The report provides guidelines for companies adopting
open source models for software development. It provides an
overview of the open source commercialisation models most
suited to the Irish context and aspects of different licensing
models that firms need to be aware of. It summaries the key
questions that Irish Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) and
Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) need to ask, and outlines
the considerations and actions that need to be taken in advance
of making a decision to engage in open source development."
BTW, I discovered this via Paul O'Malley posted to
ilug a few weeks ago.
Good luck,
Malcolm.
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Hi,
as some of you know work was being done to cut out the binary blobs
from ubuntu to create a distro, well for a further update have a look here
http://www.gnewsense.org/Main/PressRelease20060825
Have a great weekend.
Regards,
Paul
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May be of interest.
Daithí Mac Síthigh
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> From: "Fouad Riaz Bajwa" <bajwa(a)fossfp.org>
> Date: August 24, 2006 10:20:35 PM GMT+01:00
> To: <icommonslab(a)lists.ibiblio.org>
> Subject: [iCommonslab] APC CHRIS NICOL FOSS PRIZE IN 2007
> Reply-To: bajwa(a)fossfp.org
>
> ===============================================================
>
> ANNOUNCING THE APC CHRIS NICOL FOSS PRIZE IN 2007
>
> Making it easy to use free and open source software
>
> ===============================================================
>
> The APC Chris Nicol FOSS Prize recognises initiatives that are
> making it
> easy for people to start using free and open source software
> (FOSS). The
> prize will be awarded to a person or group doing extraordinary work
> to make
> FOSS accessible to ordinary computer users.
>
> The APC FOSS Prize has been established to honor Chris Nicol, a
> long time
> FOSS advocate and activist who for many years worked with APC.
>
> We are looking for initiatives that:
> * improve the accessibility to, knowledge of and/or usability of FOSS
> * are user-oriented
> * are documented so that others can learn from and replicate the model
> * have demonstrable impact and have increased the number of people
> using
> FOSS on a day-to-day basis
>
> THE PRIZE IS OPEN TO: Any person or group anywhere in the world who
> supports
> or promotes user-oriented free and open source software. The
> application
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> are no
> language restrictions regarding the language of the project. Small-
> scale
> activities are encouraged to apply.
>
> THE PRIZE: US$ 4,000.00 may be shared by up to two initiatives at
> the jury's
> discretion.
>
> DEADLINE FOR NOMINATIONS: March 30 2007
>
> MORE ABOUT THE APC CHRIS NICOL FOSS PRIZE:
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-------- Original Message --------
From: Ville Oksanen <ville.oksanen(a)effi.org>
--------
Hi,
we are in process of organizing the seminar below. It is turning to be
quite interesting, we have already 4 persons coming from EPO etc.
there's going to be some rather interesting discussions..
Ville
PS: NGO rate is the same as the academic rate.
--------
Workshop: IPR Protection of Software: Copyright, Patent, and/or Open Source?
*Aim*
The aim of the workshop is to bring together the communities of software
economists, lawyers and decision makers to discuss the state of research
and practice on dealing with intellectual property rights and competion
law on software.
*Date*
21.9-22.9.2006
*Venue*
Hotel Linna
Helsinki, Finland
Lönnrotinkatu 29
http://www.palacekamp.fi/etusivu.asp?lang=en&rest=hotelLinna
Rooms: single 120 eur, double 140 eur.
*Registration and Participation Fee*
Please send email about the registration to:
Ville.Oksanen(a)hut.fi before 1st of September.
Fees:
Academic: 85 EUR
Corporate: 400 EUR
The fee should be payed to
BANK-ID: SAMPO / account of Scandinavian Association of Law and Economics
ACCOUNT NR: 800019-70984622
IBAN: FI1580001970984622
BIC: PSPBFIHH
Reference: SERCI WORKSHOP
The registration fee includes admission to the workshop, breakfast and
lunch on Friday and a copy of the proceedings.
*** Programme ***
Day 1. 21.-22.9.2006
13:00
Richard Watt (SERCI) / Juha Laine (Helsinki University of Technology)
- Opening of the Seminar
13:15
Jyrki Katainen Chairman, The Commitee for the Future, Finnish parliament
- Keynote Speech
13:50
Mr. Jukka Liedes (Ministry of Education)
- The History of Software Copyright
Professor Richard Watt
- The History of Software Econonomics
14:50 Break
15:00 Presentation
Professor Stan Liebowitz (University of Texas)
- What Economics Can Teach Us about Regulation in Software
16:00 Coffee Break
16:30 Presentation
Professor Francois Leveque (Ecole des mines de Paris)
- Software, Antitrust and IPRs
17:30 Closing day 1.
19:30 Dinner
******
Day 2. - 22.9.
8:30-9:00 Breakfast
9:00 Presentations -
Empirical view on Software Industry
Professor Heli Koski (Helsinki School of Economics)
- The Results of EU-wide Software Business Survey
Professor Knut Blind (Technical University in Berlin)
- The European Software Industry and Software Patents
10:30 Coffee break
11:00 Presentation
Dr. Mikko Mustonen - University of Helsinki
- Open Source and Economics
12:00 Lunch
13:00 Presentation
Victor Vazquez López, Senior Legal Counsellor, WIPO
- Current Issues in the Protection of Software - WIPO Initiatives I
14:00 Policy panel
Nokia
Microsoft
Mikko Välimäki, Helsinki University of Technology / Hanken
Georg Grave, Chairman, Free Software Foundation Europoe
16:00 Closing of The Workshop
1. SELF project officially launched
2. Second draft of the GPLv3 presented
3. Bernhard Reiter spoke at University of Bayreuth (Germany)
4. Free Software at Campus Party in Valencia (Spain)
5. Experts Meeting on Internet Governance Forum
6. Microsoft fined another 1.5m EUR per day, 280.5m EUR total
7. FSFE servers moved
1. SELF project officially launched
The SELF project has been officially launched with a kick-off meeting in
Amsterdam followed by a one day conference at The Hague. SELF
stands for Scientific Education and Learning in Freedom and will set
up a platform for Free educational materials about Free Software and
Open Standards. The project is funded by the sixth framework programme
of the European Commission and includes partners from Bulgaria, Spain,
Sweden, Germany, India, Argentina and the Netherlands. FSFE is
participating with Georg Greve and Jonas Öberg in all areas of the
project and is responsible for the coordination of all legal issues.
More information is available at
http://www.selfproject.eu
Georg Greve has blogged about the kick off conference:
http://www.fsfe.org/fellows/greve/freedom_bits/self_kick_off_conference_in_…
2. Second draft of the GPLv3 presented
After seven months of discussion and more than 1000 comments made
through the public consultation process, the Free Software Foundation
has published the second draft for the GNU General Public License
(GPL) Version 3 and the first draft for the GNU Lesser General Public
License (LGPL) Version 3 which is now designed as a set of permissive
exceptions to GPLv3.
Ciarán O'Riordan has prepared a list of changes between the first and
the second draft for GPLv3 as well as a list of changes between the
second draft for GPLv3 and the GPLv2. Both are available via FSFE's
GPLv3 project page:
http://fsfeurope.org/projects/gplv3/gplv3.en.html
3. Bernhard Reiter spoke at University of Bayreuth (Germany)
Bernhard Reiter was invited by the economics department of the
University of Bayreuth (Germany) to speak about software patents. After
two other speakers gave a general introduction into the topic, he
focused his presentation on the practical implications of software
patentability.
4. Free Software at Campus Party in Valencia (Spain)
The FSFE participated actively in the 10th edition of Campus Party in
Valencia. Stefano Maffulli gave three speeches, talking about FSFE,
the Fellowship program and the threat of DRM. The presentations will be
published shortly on the new Advocacy section of www.fsfe.org.
5. Experts Meeting on Internet Governance Forum (IGF)
One of the outcomes of the United Nations World Summit on the
Information Society (WSIS) was the establishment of an Internet
Governance Form (IGF). This forum plans to provide room for discussion
and potential consensus building on various forms of regulation
concerning the Internet. In preparation for this year's first IGF, in
Athens, Greece, FSFE's president Georg Greve participated in a two day
expert meeting to discuss possibilities and challenges that the IGF
creates.
6. Microsoft fined another 1.5m EUR per day, 280.5m EUR total
Due to Microsoft's continued refusal to make its interoperability
information available to competitors, the European Commission fined
Microsoft 1.5m EUR per day retroactively from 16th December 2005. FSFE
has been active in this case since the original investigation in 2001,
working to represent and protect the interests of the Samba Project,
which is by now more than 10 years behind in their implementation of
interoperable software due to Microsoft's protocol manipulation games.
More information available at
http://mail.fsfeurope.org/pipermail/press-release/2006q3/000147.html
7. FSFE servers moved
On the 20th and 21st of July, the servers hosting most of the FSFE
infrastructure were moved to Örebro University in Sweden who graciously
has donated rack space and bandwidth for the servers. The FSFE would
like to express our thanks to Örebro University for providing these
facilities, as well as our deepest thanks to Göteborg University, who
previously provided the bandwidth and rack space.
You can find a list of all FSFE newsletters on
http://www.fsfeurope.org/news/newsletter.en.html
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Hi All,
Brian Brazil and myself are working on "(yet) another distro" which
requires some help.
We can manage, however here are the most useful contributions we could
have at this time.
Someone who has some time they could give in the next month or so, and
is _very_ familiar with dpkg.
The help of an artist.
What we would like is if people could put up their own pictures and
mail me a URL for them. When we are finished this process we would
like to display all the pictures on the distros site.
The graphics do have to be released under an FSF approved licence. It
is a live install CD based on Ubuntu and Debian, with no binary blobs.
We have not tested every package in main, however we are given to
understand that all software in "main and universe" are free software.
We know about the deps of some non free software so are engineering
that out of the distro. We have made enough progress for us to say it
boots.
We would like to display this distro in Blooms Hotel next Saturday
12th August. However the distro still looks like the the original
source material.
These graphics are not for Gnubuntu or Ubuntu-libre, that is a
separate project. We are also working on such a fork. We will be
looking to the Ubuntu Community for support with that. We do not need
to do that just yet.
Until we get this right, it is still one big merge fest. We have not
resolved all issues at this time, however as we need help be sure you
will be alerted to same.
With regards to naming it, there are two great names in the offing,
the puns are worth the wait. :-)
Anyway enough of the technical things, other than to say it must be in
svg format so we can make all sorts of sizes from it.
If you need inspiration I would really like the following to be it
logo for example:
Three Gnus, close enough together to be one graphic. All should be
sitting.
The main character should be sitting on the left, holding or playing
the bodhran while looking to the right*.*
The tipper or beater does not have to be in action.
Shamrocks/harps are allowed on the bodhran.
The second character, in the middle facing the foreground, should be
playing the tin/penny whistle.
The third character should be sitting on the right with a set of
Uilleann pipes trailing to the left of the group and looking to the
centre.
The reason the main character is the bodhran playing one is the main
character is to display the concept of banging the drum for free
software. At the moment we are considering the image of the "the
dynamic duo" graphic as the place holder.
We would also like the following, a picture of a gnu pouring or
drinking a cup of tea, again this image needs to be in svg format. :-)
Regards,
Paul O'Malley
087-6205222
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