Ciarán O'Riordan

oriordan [at] fsfeurope.org

1. About
2. Projects
3. Articles & documents
4. Further information

About

Working for FSFE in Brussels since April 2005, Ciarán's current role is to develop FSFE's relationship with the Free Software community through the Fellowship of FSFE. This involves writing articles, organising regional meetings, and participating in community forums such as mailing lists. Ciarán's goals are to make the work of FSFE transparent and understandable, and to provide motivated Free Software supporters with information to help them get active.

Ciarán began working for FSFE during the large-scale campaigning against software patents, taking on the role of EU policy coordinator. In 2006 and 2007, he shifted focus to licensing issues and coordinated FSFE's work to raise awareness and community participation in the process to update Free Software's core licence, the GNU General Public License (GPLv3).

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

Projects

Below is a list of projects Ciarán has worked on for FSFE. The the section that follows (Articles & documents) you can find a selection of Ciarán's published works on these topics.

• The Fellowship of FSFE
• Software patents
• The GPLv3 drafting process
• IPRED2
• Public speaking - (see his list of engagements)
• FSFE representation to policy meetings of the European Commission.
• Writing and maintaining FSFE webpages.
• Assisting and building the Free Software community, particularly in Ireland and Belgium, and to some extent in the UK, the Netherlands, and France.

Articles & documents

Below is a selection of the articles written by Ciarán while working on the above projects.

On software patents:

• The future of the software patents battle
• Do software patents exist in the EU?
• Working breakfast on Community Patent
• On his own website: Software Patents

On drafting version 3 of the GNU GPL:

• Transcripts of the major GPLv3 events
• Tivoisation explained - implementation and harms
• How GPLv3 Tackles Licence Proliferation

Further Information

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

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

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