"CV" of Jonas Maebe's FFII career until now

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Rough overview

2003-06

• Wrote Flemish !MEPs about software patents, was contacted for voting advice a few days later, looked for people to help with this and found the FFII

2003-07

• Spent a week in the European Parliament lobbying MEPs

2003-09

• Helped creating the analysis of all tabled amendments for the first reading of the software patents directive in the European Parliament
• Went to EP in Strasbourg to help with the last miles for the first reading (distributing legal analysis, explaining to MEPs, create voting list, ...)

2004-01

• Created "patented webshop" (http://webshop.ffii.org), based on idea by Ole Tange

2004-02

• Was one of the people who represented FFII at FOSDEM, gave presentation about the software patents fight

2004-03

• Meeting with Belgian Minister of Economy Fientje Moerman (together with Dieter Van Uytvanck)

2004-04

• Elected to the FFII board (as assessor) at the General Assembly of 14 April 2004 (http://www.ffii.org/members/index.en.html#vorst)

• Helped organising and made the proceedings of the FFII conference "Software Patent Legislation Benchmarking Conference" in the European Parliament (http://plone.ffii.org/events/2004/bxl04/prep/index_html/)

2004-06

• Created overview of studies concerning software patents (http://wiki.ffii.org/ConsParl0406En)

2004-11

• Helped organising and made the website/promotion materials for the FFII conference "Regulating Knowledge: Costs, Risks, and Models of Innovation" (http://en.eu.ffii.org/sections/bxl0411)

• Gave presentation at the above conference

2005-02

• Was one of the people who manned the FFII booth at FOSDEM

2005-05

• Helped organising and made the promotion materials for the FFII conference "Patent Policy Making Conference" (http://swpat.ffii.org/events/2005/bxl0601/)

2005-06

• Cooperated with analysing of all tabled amendments in the second reading
• Created two short overview documents about the core points

2005-07

• Went to EP in Strasbourg for helping with the second reading (along with even more people than during the first reading)

Other, general things:

• Wrote and co-authored several FFII press releases

• Wrote several introductory texts for software patents (most available under http://www.ffii.org/~jmaebe/swpat, e.g. cii.html, juri.html, why.html)

• Met and mailed with several !MEPs and (Belgian) national politicians regarding the software patents case
• Provided "back office" services for our Brussels permanent representative when he was in the parliament

• Created several PR documents (e.g. http://www.ffii.org/~jmaebe/swpat/brochure0411/, http://www.ffii.org/~jmaebe/em/)