FFII Project News -- Progress on our Internal Work
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How FFII is progressing with its internal work. Recent achievements that are of interest mainly to people within FFII are reported here.
- 2005-10-21 phm places EV50 campaign banner on www.ffii.org, swpat.ffii.org etc
- 2005-10-20 FFII board decides to support Florian Mueller's candidacy for European of the Year
2005-10-19 phm restores photos to FfiiContactsEn page (they had been in blasum's private directory, which he had deleted in July)
2005-10-12 gibuskro invites ffii.fr friends to meeting
2005-08-19 phm enhances patent examination reform proposal
2005-08-18 phm opens ffii.xwiki.com site for playing with another promising wiki
2005-08-01 gibus adds JURI amendments of second reading into FFII amend database
2005-07-26 gibus adds plenary amendments of second reading into FFII amend database
2005-07-09 phm drafts statement Economic Majority thanks European Parliament, plans further engagement and task progress report for the E-M project
2005-07-09 miernik plans August vacation camp in Southern Poland
2005-07-06 FFII registers domains power-to-the-parliament.org et al
2005-07-07 phm specifies needed kwiki caching mechanism
2005-05-03 phm outlines programming tasks
2005-04-30 phm explains how to upload background documents to ffii.org
2005-04-17 phm updates priorities page
2005-04-17 phm provides authorised English translation of Lenz article on interpretation of Art 52 EPC and improves related pages on EPO decisions Vicom 1986 and IBM program product 1998
2005-04-12 phm releases PR for Hannover Messe
2005-04-11 phm creates vocabulary page whose translatable source can be used for translating text chunks that are commonly used throughout the ffii sites
2005-04-11 phm creates static version of MEP info page
2005-04-11 phm updates Short Introduction
2005-03-27 jmaebe creates page with links to all official documents relating to the swpat directive
2005-04-07 phm proposes 5-step questionnaire/checklist for patent legislators to be used for better-informed letter-writing
- 2005-04-06 phm secures domains economicmajority.com, economicmajority.org, economic-majority.com, wirtschaftlichemehrheit.de, wirtschaftliche-mehrheit.de for FFII
2005-04-03 uhlmann et al create Get Active page, phm updates Projects wiki page
2005-03-30 phm, zoobab et al create Banana Union Day Investigation & Commemoration Project
2005-03-25 uhlmann installs Genba MRTG statistics page
2005-03-24 phm: FFII translations needed, process improved
2005-03-19 Arebenti: Quick fix: hardcoded FFII India page http://www.ffii.in/
- 2005-02-23 Arebenti: translated page for new kwiki authors to German, was a dump of unrelated comments before.
2005-02-12 Arebenti: Added latest PL Council addendum to kwiki: ConsPl050208En
2005-02-07 Photos from Paris booth available http://www.parinux.org/assoc/albums/solutions_linux-2005.html, fishes distributed there
2005-02-05 Where to kwiki this statistic? http://www.eds-destatis.de/de/publications/detail.php?th=4&k=1&dok=1256
2005-01-26 Arebenti added regional map to webdemo and improved the start page ecc.
2005-01-23 Some webdemo pages: http://demo.ffii.org and the kwiki pages FishDemo0501En and WebDemo, also the more long-term netstrike page http://wiki.ffii.org/SwpatjarcoEn. Expect updates and modifications.
2005-01-23 Hopefully biting image about Harmonization on the agrar & fishery council agenda...
2005-01-20 How to Act against the Commissio/Council's Fishy Patent Tactics
2005-01-14 phm makes fundraising pages usable
2005-01-14 phm improves patent database generation, implements ffii css into new pages
2005-01-11 phm solves mlht translation managment password privacy problem
2005-01-10 restart motion press release with banner and campaign page
2005-01-02 mvernon documents EU Democracy and Codecision
2005-01-02 phm proposes new priorities
2004-12-22 banners & news on front pages now collaboratively editable as HTML source
2004-12-22 art starts Council reform discussion page
2004-12-22 phm starts Buy Fair Technology: No Mobiles from Patent Bullies
2004-12-18 arebenti moves Lenz translation project to kwiki, difficult translation because of many native German metaphorical phrases taken from 'Kanzeleisprache'
- 2004-12-17 Uhlmann becomes demo.ffii.org responsible
2004-12-12 new script supplies full-value html header for kwiki pages
- 2004-12-11 phm reinstalls scsh pgsql module on genba, resumes automated patent datamining
- 2004-12-10 DLF Interview with ccorn and arebenti
2004-12-04 phm creates a kwiki page index that is auto-updated every hour (--> kwiki)
2004-11-26 amacfie updates MEP database for use in aktiv
2004-11-25 phm starts documentation of ffii amend database
2004-11-25 phm starts documentation of latest study on business method patents
2004-11-24 phm makes Dutch News available on FFII RSS Newsfeeds
2004-11-24 phm starts turorial Installing MLHT and Getting Started
2004-11-24 phm completes en translation of Karas statement
2004-11-23 Writing Amendments --- AMEND project documentation started
2004-11-23 How do Dilab's medical inventions benefit from program claims?
2004-11-12 phm+erjos analyse popular view of technical invention as fascinosum
2004-11-12 FFII accredited at WIPO as an observer
2004-11-07 Xenu broken link search on swpat.ffii.org
2004-11-02 EU webportal IRC session, new todo list worked out
2004-11-01 weekly IRC minutes
2004-11-01 phm begins documentation of meps database in an effort to bring it up to date (integrate earlier work of amacfie)
2004-11-01 stream team preparing audiovisual broadcast of upcoming conference
2004-10-31 phm simplifies kwiki page display, documents write access conditions
2004-10-30 arebenti renews ffii web design, bkaindl installs CSS files
2004-10-30 dietvu, mond, phm make FFII RSS Newsfeeds available
2004-10-29 New FFII QA kwiki page
2004-10-29 phm rewrites the eu.ffii.org homepage
2004-10-27 ffii.de publishes position on german governing coalition statement on swpat
2004-10-27 phm adds How to qualify as a kwiki editor page and links to it from addenda page headers top of SwpatcninoEn
2004-10-25 phm implements knecht query for project volunteer signups
- 2004-10-22 nexedi and dekkers make eu.ffii.org point to new server
- 2004-10-22 jbosson and dekkers make gauss.ffii.org point to new database server
2004-10-18 project representation in aktiv menu improved
2004-10-17 project creation process simplified
2004-10-16 accident in database-mailman synchronisation fixed, precautions taken (--> projlists)
2004-10-16 kwiki page editing now by default requires login (--> KwikiEn)
2004-10-15 81 Volunteers have Sent 365 Urgent Calls to 199 Recipients in 14 Countries Since July 1
2004-10-09 jmaebe brings presentable conference program to the web, see also SwpTest0411En
2004-10-08 IT action in Pisa, response from MP Paolo Cento
2004-10-01 14 Volunteers have Sent 103 Cards to 102 Recipients in 10 Countries Since August 21
2004-10-01 phm creates perl script var/www/adm/bin/ffiiuidpass which transfers addresses from .pass files to database and writes records for .htaccess authentication files used by http://www.ffii.org/intern and kwiki editor's login prompt. --> From now on all ffii members have access to the restricted parts of the site, and the database has become an authoritative source for passwords. No more time-consuming parsing of the directory tree is needed for creating auth files, and these files are no longer impractically big.
2004-10-01 phm creates dynamic address book of ffii activists
2004-09-23 gibuskro creates logo for november conference and places it on the plone site
2004-09-23 ffii calls on non-german-speaking supporters to celebreate EU Democracy Day
2004-09-23 FFII France portal runs under .fr domain
2004-09-22 ffii calls on >20000 german-speaking supporters to celebrate EU Democracy Day
2004-09-21 november conference preparations under way
2004-09-21 public workspaces on FFII EU portal now freely editable by any authenticated user
2004-09-20 gibuskro, comte0 et al prepare FFII France site
2004-09-20 ffii participation system now contains full and daily-updated list of projects to subscribe to
- 2004-09-19 Markelo meeting ends, participants from all over Europe
2004-09-14 5 Volunteers have sent 21 Urgent Appeals to 6 recipients in the Czech Republic since September 9
2004-09-14 mailman once again follows project participation database, disturbances during testing
2004-09-13 arebenti & phm prepare EU Democracy Day web page and banner
2004-09-12 phm improves Council-Parliament Tabular Comparison
2004-09-08 peuvedic/blasum: donations to FFII tax-deductible in France
2004-09-10 Mienik takes care of New Kwiki page for Mailing lists without static header
2004-09-07 phm drafts Industrial Copyright thesis paper
- 2004-09-07 brablc largely completes czech version of Urgent Appeal and appendices, meanwhile phm enriches and debugs the mlht system which originally didn't produce usable czech pdf output
2004-09-07 blasum sends mass mailing out, several people respond offering help (e.g. as sysadmins)
2004-08-27 arebenti publishes software protection shield poster design -- text needs polishing (--> artwork)
2004-08-27 A Volunteer in Germany Sent 14 Urgent Appeal Letters on August 27
2004-08-27 3 Volunteers in the United Kingdom have Sent 7 Urgent Appeal Letters Since August 26
2004-08-26 5 Volunteers have Sent 12 Postcards to 7 Countries Since August 21
2004-08-25 rmages handles Postcard scan submission address postkard0407-help at ffii org for Postcard action
2004-08-25 phm documents restored mailman-database interface
2004-08-24 new ffii portal moving to destination machine
2004-08-24 phm restores dynamic generation of mail aliases
2004-08-22 translation batch processing system now running on ffii machine (independent of phm)
2004-08-20 4 Volunteers in Sweden Sent 24 Urgent Appeal Letters on August 20
2004-08-20 blasum & phm register new board with Munich authorities
2004-08-19 phm: Urgent Appeal Appendix has bibliography -- bibtex integrated with ffii/mlht system
2004-08-18 20 Volunteers in France have sent 92 Urgent Appeal Letters since July 26
2004-08-18 New signatories for the Urgent Call, schinski updated LtrConsMinim0406.*.sxw (de, en, fr) and the corresponding .pdf.
2004-08-17 phm makes MLHT more portable, database becomes primary source, e.g. for registering translators
2004-08-16 brablc creates Czech versions of ffii front pages and Urgent Appeal
2004-08-15 phm corrects errors in Urgent Appeal appendix PDF files
2004-08-13 arebenti creates banner for Postcard action
2004-08-11 Mailinglist archives are working for all lists now.
2004-08-11 gibuskro compiles feedback from action in response to a pro-swpat text from Medef (french union of CEO)
2004-08-06 phm compiles documentation of AU-US FTA debate
2004-08-05 nexedi multilingual utf-8 demo for New EU Portal
2004-08-05 erjos translates Urgent Appeal to Swedish
2004-08-05 gibuskro creates banners (en, fr, gimp-editable source) for Urgent Appeal delivery project
- 2004-08-04 jeroen installing new mail archiving software
2004-08-03 jeroen installs new mail system on genba
2004-08-02 genba restarted with fresh system after 2 days of pause
2004-07-26 Appeal submitted to French Heads of State
2004-07-25 FFII Document Metadata Structure documentation started
2004-07-24 Cariacture: Iraqi Information Minister on EU Software Patents
2004-07-22 pelegrin: article by article comparison of Council vs Parliament texts
2004-07-22 phm: collecting info on EU patent insurance plans
2004-07-22 phm: the EU swpat directive and what we want
- 2004-07-21 aptiko: Greek group submits urgent Appeal to government
2004-07-20 irc discussion leads to update of priorities
2004-07-10 phm Chronology of patent movement/complacency in german economics ministry
2004-07-10 phm Chronology of patent movement in dutch government
financ/tender/ 2004-06-29 blasum Tender for some computing tasks at FFII
2004-06-23 phm Started Work on Specification for new FFII Portal
2004-06-21 phm EU FFII Advertorial in Parliamentary Magazine
2004-05-23 ShortIntroEn -- an introduction for newbies to the Swpat questions
- 2004-05-23 Stephan Uhlmann and Seth Johnson working on further transcription of Council recordings
2004-05-23 Testsuite now comprises Europarl and Consilium results
FFII Galiza (run by Suso Baleato)
FFII Belgium = Softwarepatenten.be (run by Dieter van Uytvanck and Jonas Maebe)
FFII Sweden officially founded and already very active
Progress with ffii planning at FfiiprojEn
updated chronology on the limits of patentability http://swpat.ffii.org/lisri/citri/
updated ffii board composition (after elections of new members on 2004-04-14) http://www.ffii.org/assoc/home/
