Talk:Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure

FFII et al.?

I decided to make a broad topic "FFII et al." because there are some actions that are well known but are not explicitly "FFII projects". stopsoftwarepatents.eu is one, and digitalmajority.org is another. If this article was limited to "official" FFII projects, then those two sites would have to be removed - and where else on the wiki could they go? A unified page for official-FFII plus "the FFII community" seems to make sense. Ciaran 16:40, 7 October 2009 (EDT)

Hey Ciaran, I started DigiMaj and it was definitely an FFII project until the German FFII core went crazy in 2007 or so and started to attack its non-German teams. Some other notable projects that we started under my 2-year presidency of the FFII:

- Esoma (www.esoma.org)

- Eupaco (www.eupaco.org)

- Digistan (www.digistan.org)

- Ethipat (www.ethipat.org)

- NoOOXML (www.noooxml.org)

- no-EPLA community (epla.ffii.org)

From 2000 until 2008 or so, FFII was without doubt the largest and most influential anti-software patent community in Europe, but these days it's pretty much dead. However it would be honest of you to credit the huge contribution made by the FFII in the analysis and deconstruction of the patent establishment's propaganda, strategy, and tactics.

-Pieter

Thanks for the list. I'll update the page. Some things will get left out, but that's because I want to keep the focus on FFII's software patents work, so open standards stuff would only get a passing mention, and organisational problems probably won't get a mention. Ciaran 08:53, 8 October 2010 (EDT)

I was thinking about what's useful to add. The goal of the page is to help anti-swpat campaigners. Instead of adding links to those six (plus other) homepages, we should add links to the key software patent pages on those sites. Can anyone help with finding those pages?

As for giving credit, the intro paragraph says that FFII is massively important. Telling the history of FFII is a job for Wikipedia, ffii.org, and people's blogs, so we should link to those pages/sites. Ciaran 05:12, 9 October 2010 (EDT)

Also, the FFII article is one of wiki's pages which has the the most internal links pointing to it: Special:MostLinkedPages. Out of 534 articles, it's currently the article with the 8th highest count of internal links toward it. Ciaran 20:56, 29 October 2010 (EDT)