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News

• 2004-10-09 Reply from Lord Sainsbury, UK, received

• 2004-10-08 Students of the University of Pisa (see below) received another friendly answer from On. Paolo Cento, MP.

• 2004-10-04 Students of the University of Pisa sent about 120 letters (as of now) to Italian Minister, MEPs and MPs. On. Raffaella Mariani, MP, gently answered and sent an official written interrogation to the competent Italian Ministers. The interrogation is well written and reflects our concerns.

• 2004-09-14 Various actions in France have resulted to 4 official written questions from !MPs to French government perfectly relaying our concerns (-->Le Déaut, Gremetz, Mariani and Vannson)

• 2004-09-14 5 Volunteers have sent 21 Urgent Appeals to 6 recipients in the Czech Republic since September 9

• 2004-09-10 47 Volunteers have sent 172 Urgent Calls to 85 recipients in 10 countries since July 1

• 2004-09-09 8 Volunteers have sent 19 Cards to 18 recipients in 8 countries since August 21

• 2004-09-01 A Volunteer in Latvia sent an Urgent Appeal Letter to the Prime Minister on September 1

• 2004-08-27 A Volunteer in Germany sent 14 Urgent Appeal Letters on August 27

• 2004-08-27 3 Volunteers have sent 7 Urgent Appeals in the United Kingdom since August 26

• 2004-08-25 rmages handles Postcard scan submission address (Postkard0407-help@ffii.org) for Postcard action

• 2004-08-20 4 Volunteers sent 24 Urgent Appeal Letters to Swedish Politicians on August 20

• 2004-08-19 phm brings Bibliographic Appendix in line with jmaebe version, integrates BibTeX

• 2004-08-18 21 Volunteers in France have sent 105 Letters to 17 Recipients since July 26

• 2004-08-18 New signatories for the Urgent Call, schinski updated LtrConsMinim0406.*.sxw (de, en, fr) and the corresponding .pdf.

• 2004-08-13 Arebenti creates banner for Postcard action, German postkard page improved

• 2004-08-11 New wiki page with general delivery instructions, little restructuring, see Urgent Call for description

• 2004-08-10 irc planning meeting, urgent call banners on front pages

• 2004-08-09 sslug members translates Urgent Call to Danish

• 2004-08-07 schinski updated typesetted samples (de, en) for the Urgent Call to match the french one.

• 2004-07-30 sort of a danish urgent call: DK The Copenhagen Post: Union urges opposition to EU directive (--> DK, Council Reversal)

• 2004-08-05 erjos translates Urgent Call to Swedish

• 2004-08-05 gibuskro creates banners (en, fr, gimp-editable source) for Urgent Appeal delivery project

• 2004-07-26 Appeal submitted to French Heads of State

• 2004-07-24 Iraqi Information Minister on EU Software Patents -- Caricature could be used for Appendix A or B

• 2004-07-22 Appendices available as PDF files in French, partially German

• 2004-07-20 Appeal submitted to Greek government

Project Working Group

• project leader is Lars Noschinski

• Urgent Call is on http://swpat.ffii.org/xatra/cons0406

• subscribe to consilium-parl mailing list

• government addresses http://www.europa.eu.int/abc/governments/index_en.htm

The following wiki pages are used for this project:

• LtrCons0406En - this page, general informations

• LtrConsRecv0406En - organise the organisation of national deliveries

• LtrConsRecv<Country>0406<Language> - national delivery organisation page, provides list of recipients, maybe national delivery instructions for users

• LtrConsSend0406En - general and easy instructions, how to send the letter, links national "Send" pages

• LtrConsSend<Country>0406<Language> - national pages where people should note, to whom they sent a letter, see e.g. LtrConsSendFr0406Fr and overview at LtrConsSend0406En

Tasks (ordered by priority)

• Find the Recipients in the National Governments/Political Parties: LtrConsRecv0406En

• Translations / Typesetting
• Signature Collection

• Sending: LtrConsSend0406En

Please contact Lars Noschinski if you want to take over a task, eg delivering the letter nationally.

Typesetting the text with logos nicely

Existing Samples

These samples have no reference to the appendixes, you also need to change/remove the date and add either a personal cover letter or just "Dear <Recipient>, ..."

• http://swpat.ffii.org/letters/cons0406/LtrConsMinim0406.en.pdf

• http://swpat.ffii.org/letters/cons0406/LtrConsMinim0406.en.sxw

• http://swpat.ffii.org/letters/cons0406/LtrConsMinim0406.de.pdf

• http://swpat.ffii.org/letters/cons0406/LtrConsMinim0406.de.sxw

• http://swpat.ffii.org/letters/cons0406/LtrConsMinim0406.fr.pdf

• http://swpat.ffii.org/letters/cons0406/LtrConsMinim0406.fr.sxw

• Not every signator needs to be represented on paper with a logo. No need for masses of penguins.

• The Joint Patent Industry Statement of 2003-04 might serve as a model or as something to parody.

• find company logos at genba.ffii.org in var/www/img/logos or collect them here after picking them from the company's website

Appendices

• separate document and each appendix separately: allow people to send with additional appendices
• complete the appendices

  • A (pdf: cs, de, en, fr) completed by phm, see static version, nearly perfect

  • B (pdf: cs, de, en, fr, nl, pl) completed by phm, see static version, NEEDS UPDATE, use wiki page to propose text

  • C (pdf: cs, de, en, fr, nl) completed by jmaebe+phm, still improvable

  • D (pdf: cs, de, en, fr, es)

Translation

• translate source text according to instructions, but send to mail processor mlhtimport at a2e de (mlhtimport at ffii org doesn't work reliably at the moment).

In addition also create the sxw/pdf files (or files using other text processing systems at which you are good, resulting in PDF). See "Typesetting the Text with logos nicely" above.

Signature Collection

• collect signatures of big players and politicians (e.g. those from Calls for Action 1 & 2) and submit to cpedu-help at ffii org

  • Did a not-good-enough draft for a mail to german companies who signed !CfA I/II, but will not be able to incorporate changes till Sun, 2004-06-20. Told jmaebe about it, he might want to do an english version. ccorn already prepared a list of recipients. (schinski)

Action to get it delivered - Priorities:

Find the Recipients in the National Governments/Political Parties

Page to collect responsible persons to find national destination addresses: LtrConsRecv0406En

Maybe there is also some info on http://swpatwiki.ffii.org/NationalParliamentRepresentatives