On Sun, 24 Aug 2003 11:31:39 +0200 (MEST) Mathieu Roy wrote: > > Would it be possible to inform all maintainers of projects > > hosted on Savannah about this online demonstration? Do you have some > > kind of newsletter where a small announcement could be placed? > > We can do a mass mailing to all our user but we never do it: sending > 10000 mails is not a good option. > What we can easily do is to post a news item on the front page. Less > people read > it than a mail, sure, but I think it can help. > > Interested? If so, can you provide a little explanation we can > copy/paste + quote, with links?
Here's something that you can put in the news section: <!-- Subject: --> Online demo against software patents <!-- Abstract: --> In the face of the planned decision in the beginning of September concerning the legalization of Software Patents in Europe, the <a href=http://www.ffii.org>FFII</a> is organizing a <a href=http://swpat.ffii.org/news/03/demo0819/index.en.html>wave of protest</a>. Savannah Projects are encouraged to participate in the accompanying <a href=http://swpat.ffii.org/group/demo/index.en.html>Online Demo</a>. <!-- Additional info: --> <p> The idea of the Online Demo is that with software patents many sites running/serving possibly patent infringing software have to go offline sooner or later. So why not demonstrate this effect before it's too late? <p> To find out whether a project is already infringing upon patents, the following resources are of interest: <ul> <li> <a href=http://swpat.ffii.org/patents/index.en.html>European Software Patent Horror Gallery</a> <li> <a href=http://ep.espacenet.com/>The EPO's patent data base (includes US and other patents)</a> <li> <a href=http://patinfo.ffii.org/patente.html>Some examples (in German)</a></ul> <p> Note that in spite of the current legislation (see <a href=http://www.european-patent-office.org/legal/epc/e/ar52.html#A52>Ar t. 52</a> of the European Patent Convention) many trivial software patents have already been granted in Europe. _______________________________________________ Savannah-hackers mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/savannah-hackers
