Re: [Savannah-hackers] OT: Can Savannah help protest against SWPats?

[Mathieu Roy]

En réponse à "Felix E. Klee" <address@hidden>:

> Hi,
> 
> I'm sorry to bother you with this, but since - sensationally put - it's
> about the future of Free Software I'm hoping for your help:
> 
> On September 1st the European Parliament will start discussing a
> proposal for a new pro-software-patent-legislation in Europe. A vote on
> the proposal is planned to take place on the same day or the days
> thereafter. Unfortunately the pro-software-patent lobbyist are very
> strong but the opposition isn't sleeping either:
> 
> To raise the attention of the press and of MEPs (members of the
> European
> Parliament) the FFII (http://www.ffii.org) is organizing a
> demonstration
> and conference in Brussels on August 27th (http://swpat.ffii.org/
> news/03/demo0819). In parallel there will be an online demonstration
> (http://swpat.ffii.org/group/demo).
> 
> As a member of the FFII I'm helping to organize this online demo. I
> already contacted several free software projects and some have agreed
> to
> participate. However, contacting all of them individually is a tedious
> task. Therefore we had the idea to ask Savannah:
> 
> Would it be possible to inform all maintainers of projects
> hosted on Savannah about this online demonstration? Do you have some
> kind of newsletter where a small announcement could be placed?
> 

Hi,

We can do a mass mailing to all our user but we never do it: sending 10000 mails
is not a good option. 
What we can easily do is to post a news item on the front page. Less people read
  it than a mail, sure, but I think it can help.

Interested? If so, can you provide a little explanation we can copy/paste +
quote, with links?


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