Ciarán O'Riordan

oriordan [at] fsfeurope.org

Supported by The Fellowship of FSFE. See: How and Why to help FSFE's Fellowship.

1. About
2. Projects
3. More information

About

Ciaran is a Brussels-based Free Software campaigner who has been working full-time for FSFE since April 2005.

Before working for FSFE, he was a software developer and campaigned on copyright and patent related EU directives in his spare time.

He began working for FSFE during the large-scale campaigning against software patents. He has also been involved in other legislative issues and policy meetings. In 2006, he became active on spreading awareness of the GPLv3 public consultation process and the changes being made to the licence.

His focuses are on building awareness among the Free Software community about legal and legislative issues, and working to shape legislation and policy in the EU institutions to prevent software users and developers from having essential freedoms taken away.

Projects

Projects Ciarán O'Riordan is/has been working on for FSFE:

• The GPLv3 drafting process; See:
  • Transcripts of the major GPLv3 events
  • Tivoisation explained - implementation and harms
  • How GPLv3 Tackles Licence Proliferation
• Software patents; See:
  • The future of the software patents battle
• IPRED2
• Fellowship of FSFE
• Public speaking - he maintains a list of engagements on his homepage
• FSFE representation to policy meetings of the European Commission
• Assisting and building the Free Software community, particularly in Ireland and Belgium, and to some extent in the UK and the Netherlands.

More Information

More information is available at Ciarán O'Riordan's personal homepage.

Another source of information is his blog: Ciaran's free software notes.

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