Re: (OT) Webdemo against European Software Patents
On Sat, Jan 22, 2005 at 11:26:07AM -0800, Matt Kraai wrote:
> I've added a banner at the top of each page.
> --
> Matt
Sorry for my late reply, I've been quite busy.
A big thanks to the Debian people, especially you guys on debian-www.
You help us a lot towards achieving our common goal.
Good News: The item has been taken off the agenda of the agriculture and
fishery council. The word from diplomatic circles is, that the council will
reschedule for January 31st on the "General Affairs & External Relations
Council".
But we did not just achieve a rescheduling but now the parliament has time
until the February 21st to initiate a restart of the proceedings concerning
software patents. (This is because the council has to announce their
position in the European Parliament during a plenary session and the next
dates for that are Jan. 26th and 27th and Feb. 21st. Since they have not
finalised their position before the first two dates, they can announce it
at the earliest on Feb. 21st.)
Right now we are restructuring for a successive campaign to get support for
the restart. Would debian-www be willing to further support this goal?
The "agriculture and fishery" council topic ended with a fortunate outcome,
that means the "Something 'fishy' going on at the fishery meeting" is
outdated. Maybe you could replace it with a temporary banner from
http://demo.ffii.org/online_banners.en.php (I suggest "Dear Minister,
please click here!") until we have something more adequate.
Thanks again,
Nico
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