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#title: WebDemo Against Software Patents

#descr: The economic policy speaker of the Austrian People's Party and of the
European People's Party in the European Parliament, MEP Othmar Karas,
wrote a letter to responsible members of the Austrian government two
weeks before these %(q:instructions) came out, in which he explained
why the European Patent Office's practise is an unacceptable model and
asked the ministery to follow the decision of the European Parliament.
 As of 2004/05/05 (when the %(q:instructions) came out), there had
been no response.

#irW: The FFII has organized online demonstrations against software patents
in 2003 and will need to organise them again in 2004. We want you to
replace the title page of your project's site with a protest page
against software patents (for examples see below) during %(TMP). If
you don't want to block access to your site you can for example put a
small link on the protest page as seen in one of the examples.

#are: With software patents many sites running/serving possibly patent
infringing software have to go offline sooner or later. So why not
demonstrate this effect before it's too late?

#Puo: It might be a good idea to include a link to the %(ep:Petition) and
%(ca:Call for Action) in your demo web page, so that we can use the
opportunity to increase the number of supporters.  Much of the basic
introductory information could be on your site, so as to avoid
overloading of ffii.org.  Feel free to copy the title page of
swpat.ffii.org onto your demo page or to mirror the site or part of
it, if you like.

#lP0: Brussels EP Software Patent Events 2004/04/14-5

#WWr: Schedule of demo, conference and other events conducted in the
European Parliament

#IeS: FFII Demo Site

#oWs: Introduction to Demos and related FFII Events in Brussels and
elsewhere

#tnW: Participating Sites 2004

#wsr: Sites which have already registered their participation in the strikes
of April and May 2004

#opn: Form for registering participation in Netstrike

#FWm: FFII Online Demo

#cil: Instructions for participation in online demo

#rs0: Mirror 2003/08

#opu: Mirrors of websites that participated in August 2003

#rs02: Mirror 2004/04

#WWA: Mirrors of websites that participated in April 2004

#ash: Sample page that could be used to replace another web page.

#fnW: Call for European Elections 2004/06

#alp: Another variation, more entertaining, more complicated, in German

#WwW: Well designed, with a nice banner.

#WiE: Very informative, in French

#raW: informative page in Italian

#osn: Due to software patents, this website is not running any more

#WWt: Benjamin Henrion's homepage implements yet another variant in black.

#tiW: Another variant, in French

#WbW: This one will be used at %(URL).

#sWt: Prepare a simple introductory page on software patents to put on each
site that participates.

#ota: We don't want masses of people to be redirected immediately to an ffii
site.  It is better if most of the explaining is done on the original
site and only some optional links go out.

#Wga: Organise the Netstrike through the FFII Participation System

#tWg: Wikis are not really effective for this task.  Let people register in
the ffii supporter database, so that there is always an upto date list
of participating pages whose participants can be alerted.

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