Hi all,
as you may know, we succeeded with our recommendation
http://fsfeurope.org/documents/fp6/recommendation.html
to bring Free Software into the sixth framework programme of the
European Commission.
If that part isn't changed until Dec 17th, within the IST Programme,
Free Software will be able to insist on preferential treatment over
proprietary software, essentially opening up the whole IST Programme
up to Free Software.
Our perfect scenario would be to help launching one Free Software
consortium in response to every area addressed by all the calls that
will hopefully then get funded by the EC.
To coordinate this, we've set up a mailing list that can be found at
http://mailman.fsfeurope.org/mailman/listinfo/fp6
As we want to make sure that as many of "our" companies get a chance
to receive EC funding (as opposed to only the large established bodies
that usually get it), we need to make sure that they know about it and
subscribe to the list.
This also applies to Universities and similar institutions.
So we should let them know that if they are potentially interested in
being part of such a consortium to receive funding by the European
Commission under FP6, it would be a good idea to subscribe to that
list soon.
Regards,
Georg
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Georg C. F. Greve <greve(a)gnu.org>
Free Software Foundation Europe (http://fsfeurope.org)
Brave GNU World (http://brave-gnu-world.org)