• SwpatxatraEn

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We try to assist people in writing letters to their representatives and to collect responses that have been coming in, to learn from this, so as to enable true communication between citizens and their representatives that is beneficial to both sides.

News & Chronology

• 2005-04-07 phm proposes 5-step Questionnaire/Checklist for Software Patent Legislators

• 2005-03-28 FFII distributes a letter with appendices on paper to all MEPs pointing to a page with ressources for MEPs

• 2005-03-29 EU FFII distributes letter with position paper to all MEPs

• 2005-03-24 CH Patentpolitics.info: Norbert Bollow launches letter-writing initiative (phm: good organisation effort, some letters texts less good)

• 2005-03-15 EU FFII: FFII sends 23 procedural questions to the Council Legal Services (-> Adoption Farce)

• 2005-03-10 EU FFII: Letter to the Council Presidency: What happened on Monday? (-> Adoption Farce)

• 2005-03-06 DE FFII launches Thank Denmark Campaign to Support B-Item Move

• 2005-03-01 UK Tory MEPs back Council Software Patent Agreement

• 2005-02-17 EU FFII demos with letters to Council and Comission

Example Letters

• Helmer040705En

• LtrDeIsNotAlone0405De

• LtrMoreInfo0405En

• LtrSmePolit0405En

• LtrInfosoc040506En

• LtrInfosoc040504Fr

• LtrItmin0405It: italian letter template by Fabrizio Sebastiani

• LtrFfiiEsmin0405Es

• LtrItmin0405It

• http://plone.ffii.org/events/2004/bxl04/invit/

• LtrOsfieldInfosoc0405En

• LtrToEP20030815En (Letter to EU-parliament in english and greece)

How to make your letters and responses to them accessible

• Convention: 'Ltr' Sender Recipient Year[Month[Day]] Language

If you are called John Smith and have received and answer in English from MEP Ron Miller in January 2005, place your answer at the wiki page LtrRmillerJsmith0501En and notify europarl-parl at ffii org about it, so we can add some analysis and let people learn from it.

Non-English Letter collections

• SwpatxatraDe: german version, currently contains the largest collection and the best introductory materials on writing letters to politicians

• SwpatxatraFr

• http://rastos.org/con-swpat.html: example of letter sent to minister of economy of Slovakia

Addresses to write to

SwpatdeDe, SwpatatDe, SwpatnlNl, SwpatnlEn, SwpatfrFr, SwpatconsiliumEn, SwpatitIt, SwpatelEl ...

Hints on letter-writing

• http://swpat.ffii.org/group/todo/

• Answer to send to people which might help: RespHelpEn

• participants of the last competitiveness council meeting