If you wish to help with our campaigns, infrastructure, our work on (EU) proposals or other tasks, please refer to the linked pages and contact information below.

If you wish to start a new (formal) project, please see the rules, then notify the Secretary who will take care of your request.

Projects by category

Note: only some projects are listed here for the moment being. For a more complete list please also refer to the national chapters, as well as an overview of the mailing lists. (More...)

Campaigns

• ecomaj - Economic majority (details)

  • (Responsible: Stephan Uhlmann, Hartmut Pilch; e-mail: sarji-help)

• ethipat - Campaign for Ethical Patents (details)

  • (Responsible: Pieter Hintjens, Benjamin Henrion and Alexandra Combes; e-mail: ethipat)

• nsp - NoSoftwarePatents (details)

  • (Responsible: Hartmut Pilch; e-mail: nsp-help)

Forums

(Developing proposals in collaboration with many stakeholders.)

• esoma - European Software Market Association (details)

  • (Responsible: Pieter Hintjens, Alexandra Combes, Stephan Uhlmann; e-mail: esoma)

• eupaco - EU Patent Conference (details)

  • (Responsible: Pieter Hintjens and Benjamin Henrion; e-mail: eupaco)

Internal administration

• financ - FFII Finances (details)

  • (Responsible: Hartmut Pilch et al (in preparation); e-mail: financ-help)

• ict - IT systems (details)

  • (Responsible: Antonis Christofides et al; e-mail: polis-parl, polis-help)

• statutes - Improving the FFII statutes (details)

  • (Responsible: David Vuorio, Hartmut Pilch and Pieter Hintjens; e-mail: (statut-parl))

Localized groups

• de - FFII in Germany and German language area (details)

  • (Responsible: Hartmut Pilch, Georg Jakob, Stephan Uhlmann, André Rebentisch; e-mail: de-help)

    • de-apr - Freedom of Expression vs Personality Rights & Liability Law (details)

• es - FFII Spain (acting also for Iberia & Latin America) (details)

  • (Responsible: Alberto Barrionuevo, Pablo Álvarez de Sotomayor; e-mail: es-help)

Media

• comms - Internal communication (newsletter etc.) (details)

  • (Responsible: David Vuorio, Pieter Hintjens, Alexandra Combes and Hartmut Pilch; e-mail: comms)

• digimaj - Digital majority (details)

  • (Responsible: Pieter Hintjens, Benjamin Henrion and Hartmut Pilch; e-mail: (pending))

• press - Press (details)

  • (Responsible: Jonas Maebe and Pieter Hintjens; e-mail: media-parl, media-help)

Research and lobbying

• epla - EPLA analysis and lobbying (details)

  • (Responsible: Benjamin Henrion, Pieter Hintjens and Gérald Sédrati-Dinet; e-mail: epla)

• eupat - Better EU patent system (details)

  • (Responsible: Hartmut Pilch, Ante Wessels and Jonas Maebe; e-mail: eupat)

• gauss - Gauss (details)

  • (Responsible: Jonas Bosson; e-mail: gauss-parl)

• gierek - Innovation Report by Adam Gierek in ITRE (closed temporary group)

  • (Responsible: Benjamin Henrion; e-mail: bhenrion@ffii.org and the eupat project)

• ipred - IPRED2 (details)

  • (Responsible: Ante Wessels, Jonas Maebe and André Rebentisch; e-mail: ipred2)

• openstandards - Open standards (details)

  • (Responsible: Alberto Barrionuevo, Benjamin Henrion and André Rebentisch; e-mail: openstandards)

• ooxml - Lobbying against Microsoft Office OpenXML to become an ISO standard. (details)

  • (Responsible: Alberto Barrionuevo, Benjamin Henrion; e-mail: pending)

• transparency - Transparency consultation and public document access (details)

• (Responsible: Rebentisch; e-mail: transparency)

• wipo - World Intellectual Property Organization (details)

• (Responsible: Marco Loparic; e-mail: wipo-help at ffii.org)

Articles

• Naming standards for workgroups.

• How to recognise, prevent, and treat burnout

• Rules for workgroup mailing lists

• A perfect homepage

• FFII microsites

• Giving a better presentation