Gijs Hillenius at Joinup wrote:Members of the European Parliament and public administrations working with free and open source software solutions are getting together at the
Libre Software Meeting, taking place in Brussels between 8 and 11 July. One of the session actually takes place at the European Parliament, on 9 July, as a meeting of the Legal Affairs parliamentary committee.
The EP session will see MEPs including Klaus-Heiner Lehne and Rainer Wieland discuss with Eben Moglen, chairman of the US-based Software Freedom Law Center and Jutta Kreyss, IT-architect for the German city of Munich and Giancarlo Vilella, heading the European Parliament's IT organisation.
Moglen and FSF founder Richard Stallman earlier on that Tuesday will have discussed about 'Power, Technology and Liberty' with MEPs Ioannis Tsoukalas, Judith Sargentini, Christel Schaldemose and Nils Torvalds.
Education
The day before François Élie, one of the founders and president of Adullact, the platform for French civil servants working on free and open source software, will talk about the role of free and open source software in education.
The conference program lists over two hundred lectures, thirty hands-on workshops and four plenaries meetings. It includes talks by the main European free software advocacy groups, including the Free Software Foundation Europe, April and Regards Citoyens.
RMLL
It is the fourteenth year that France's largest free software conference, better known by its French acronym RMLL (Rencontres Mondiales du Logiciel Libre) takes place. It is the second time in a row that the RMLL is organised in a city outside of France; last year it took place in Geneva.
The conference's main venue is the Solbosch campus of the Free University of Brussels. That is the same campus as where Fosdem takes place, and like for Fosdem, attending the RMLL is for free. To participate in the session at the European Parliament, registration is required.
