Folks,

KDE (Ireland) and the committees of the Irish Linux Users' Group and
the Irish Free Software Organisation on behalf of their members sent a
briefing document (authored by myself, Colm Buckley, Ciaran O'Riordan
and with many contributions from others) to all Irish MEPs to explain
the issues surrounding Software Patentability & EU Directive
COD/2002/0047 as we see them and to impress upon them the importance of
voting against this directive in its current form.

It was printed, binded and posted in this morning's post (Tuesday).
Full details and copies can be found at:

http://www.kde.ie/patents/

All HTML and files are also available for KDE's CVS archive:
http://webcvs.kde.org/www/international/ireland/

If anyone in any of the other E.U. countries wants to organise a similar 
campaign please feel free to contact me on- or off-list. We have been 
successful with this campaign in Ireland (and it is still on-going; 
hopefully the above mentioned document will get a response from some of 
the MEPs that have been hesitant in taking a stance).

When organising a campaign like this it is VITALLY important to go about 
it correctly and not to alienate any of the MEPs. Despite common 
perception in many countries, politicians work hard and long hours and 
are very receptive to the concerns of their constituents. As such, and 
I cannot over emphasise this, if you are going to lobby them - do it 
tight. And, again, feel free to contact me.

Kind regards,
Barry

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Regards,
Barry O'Donovan
http://www.barryodonovan.com/
http://www.ihl.ucd.ie/

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-- 
Regards,
Barry O'Donovan
http://www.barryodonovan.com/
http://www.ihl.ucd.ie/	

Public key: http://www.barryodonovan.com/gpg.asc

 
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