[ffii] ffii.org site news

[Hartmut Pilch]

Some new developments on the ffii.org sites:

- FFII Poland site http://www.ffii.org.pl/ is online, planning
  activities, advertised on http://www.ffii.org/

- CfA2 has more signatories, is available in Polish

- What To Do page 

	http://swpat.ffii.org/group/todo/

  updated and put at focus of attention (links from upper right corner of
  www.ffii.org and swpat.ffii.org)

- RSS newsfeed from FFII made available by Debian, advertised in
  What To Do page

- Council Swpat "Compromise" critique now points to the consequences
  of extending the meaning of "computer-implemented invention",
  the concerned section was rewritten in english and german versions.

- Planning for FFII's own conference(s) at

	http://plone.ffii.org/events/2004/test/

  New interesting subjects of discussion, academics/institutes involved.

- FFII Patent Database is currently out of sync due to changes at
  Espacenet, but solutions and further improvements are close to
  realisation

	http://plone.ffii.org/patdb/ 

- News on Commission's MS antitrust procedings (half-finished) at

	http://swpat.ffii.org/news/04/cecms0202/

- project managment syntax in database extended, should be usable for
  keeping track of all work of FFII.  It should be allowable for people
  (under some conditions) to bill ffii seeking compensation for work 
  defined in this database.

-- 
Hartmut Pilch, FFII & Eurolinux Alliance              tel. +49-89-18979927
Protecting Innovation against Patent Inflation	     http://swpat.ffii.org/
300,000 votes 2000 firms against software patents    http://noepatents.org/