On 26/03/2008, Laura Creighton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In a message of Wed, 26 Mar 2008 12:14:58 +0100, Steve Alexander writes: > >I want to propose two keynote speakers for EuroPython this year. Let me > >know what you think of this. > > > >The first is Karl Fogel, author of the Red Bean book on Subversion. His > >web site and weblog is at http://rants.org/ > > > >Karl's current passion is copyright reform, so I propose inviting him to > >give a keynote at EuroPython about what's up with copyright, and what we > >can do about it. > > > > > >The second is Van Lindberg. Van is a Python programmer and also a > >lawyer at a US law firm. He gave a keynote at PyCon this month, also > >about copyright, showing how it works, what it's for, its history and > >its problems. > > > >-- Steve > > > One of the greatest problems we face in Europe is overexposure to the > USA version of copyright. People here believe that the law, history, > and whatnot is the same as in the USA, when it is not. > > Through FFII I have many splendid connections with Europeans who are > working on copyright reform both Europe wide and in their own countries -- > in the Netherlands in particular things are getting very interesting > right now -- so if this is a topic we would like to persue, I think > it would work better as a panel discussion with experts from all over. > Having helped host 2 conferences discussing how to make reforms in > patents trademarks and copyrights in the last 16 months, I know > where to round up the usual suspects.
The European position is quite different, but equally important. I think that we should have a copyright session (panel?) and leave the choice of speakers to Laura's judgement. John -- > > Laura > > _______________________________________________ > EuroPython mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/europython > _______________________________________________ EuroPython mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/europython
