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Georg C. F. Greve (born March 10, 1973 in Helgoland, Germany) is initiator and president of the Free Software Foundation Europe. March 10 is the 69th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (70th in Leap years). ...
1973 was a common year starting on Monday. ...
Heligoland during World War I. Heligoland (in German, Helgoland and in North Frisian, Lun, Hålilönj) is a small, German, triangular-shaped island approximately 2 km long, though a smaller island east of it is usually also included. ...
FSF Europes logo The Free Software Foundation Europe (FSF Europe) was founded in 2001 as the official european sister organisation of the Free Software Foundation (FSF) to take care of all aspects of Free Software in Europe. ...
His responsibilities include European/Global coordination and planning for the FSF (Europe), supporting the local representatives in their work, working on political and legal issues as well as projects and giving speeches or informing journalists to spread knowledge about Free Software. Free software, as defined by the Free Software Foundation, can be used, copied, studied, modified and redistributed. ...
He spends most of his time travelling and when travelling to give a talk he often stays a few days in the host country to meet the members of the local Free Software organisations and community.
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- Portrait pictures of Georg Greve, taken September 2005 in Hamburg, Germany
Free software, as defined by the Free Software Foundation, can be used, copied, studied, modified and redistributed. ...
FSF Europes logo The Free Software Foundation Europe (FSF Europe) was founded in 2001 as the sister organisation of the Free Software Foundation (FSF) in the USA to take care of all aspects of Free Software in Europe. ...
A patent is a set of exclusive rights granted by a state to a person for a fixed period of time in exchange for the regulated, public disclosure of certain details of a device, method, process or substance (known as an invention) which is new, inventive and useful. ...
For copyright issues in relation to Wikipedia itself, see Wikipedia:Copyrights. ...
A trademark (Commonwealth English: trade mark)[1] is a distinctive sign of some kind which is used by a business to identify itself and its products and services to consumers, and to set the business and its products or services apart from those of other businesses. ...
The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) is one of the specialized agencies of the United Nations, and has as its core objectives the promotion of creative intellectual activity and the facilitation of the transfer of technology related to intellectual property to the developing countries in order to accelerate economic, social...
Short Biography Georg Greve has a classic scientific background as "Diplom" Physicist with biophysics, physical oceanography and astronomy as minor fields of study. His interdisciplinary diploma thesis was written in the field of nanotechnoloy at the computer science faculty of the University of Hamburg. Biophysics (also biological physics) is an interdisciplinary science that applies theories and methods of the physical sciences to questions of biology. ...
Physical oceanography is the study of the physical processes affecting and being driven by the Earths oceans, including: ocean currents, including: wind-driven surface currents [see Upwelling] geostrophic currents [see Coriolis effect] Thermohaline circulation Water masses [see also North Atlantic Deep Water] Tides [see also Tidal resonance, Tidal locking...
In ancient Greece and other early civilizations, astronomy consisted largely of astrometry, measuring positions of stars and planets in the sky. ...
Software development was part of his life since he was 12 years old and besides a first publication of a program in a professional journal in 1991, it partly financed his studies when he managed the software development to evaluate SQUID-sensor data in the biomagnetometic laboratory in the University hospital of Eppendorf (UKE) in Hamburg, Germany. Hamburg is Germanys second largest city (after Berlin) and, with the Hamburg Harbour, its principal port. ...
In 1993 he came in touch with Free Software and GNU/Linux. Being European speaker for the GNU Project since 1998, Georg Greve at this time also began writing the "Brave GNU World," a monthly column on Free Software published in the German Linux-Magazin and other magazines worldwide, as well as the internet in up to 10 languages. Free software, as defined by the Free Software Foundation, can be used, copied, studied, modified and redistributed. ...
Tux, a penguin, is the official Linux mascot. ...
For the African animal gnu, see wildebeest. ...
Brave GNU World is an online column on computer software featuring interesting GNU projects each month. ...
Free software, as defined by the Free Software Foundation, can be used, copied, studied, modified and redistributed. ...
In early 2001, he initiated the Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE, FSF Europe), the first Free Software Foundation outside the United States of America and the only transnational Free Software Foundation so far. Construction and coordination of FSFE as European non-governmental organisation, as well as its integration and coordination in global context was the focus of his work in the past years. FSF Europes logo The Free Software Foundation Europe (FSF Europe) was founded in 2001 as the official european sister organisation of the Free Software Foundation (FSF) to take care of all aspects of Free Software in Europe. ...
FSF Europes logo The Free Software Foundation Europe (FSF Europe) was founded in 2001 as the sister organisation of the Free Software Foundation (FSF) in the USA to take care of all aspects of Free Software in Europe. ...
FSF Europes logo The Free Software Foundation Europe (FSF Europe) was founded in 2001 as the sister organisation of the Free Software Foundation (FSF) in the USA to take care of all aspects of Free Software in Europe. ...
The Free Software Foundation logo Free Software Foundation (FSF) is a non-profit organization founded in October 1985 by Richard Stallman to support the free software movement (free as in freedom), and in particular the GNU project, through the use of GNU Licenses (see below). ...
The range of activities spanned areas like technology, politics, society, and economy as well as classical management. Among other things, Georg Greve was invited as an expert to the "Commission on Intellectual Property Rights" of the UK government or represented the coordination circle of German Civil Society during the first phase of the United Nations (UN) World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) as part of the German governmental delegation; he als furthered networking the Civil Society working groups on European level as well as for the thematic working group on Patents, Copyrights, Trademarks (PCT) and Free Software.
External links - Georg Greve's FSFE team page
- Georg Greve's Personal Home Page
- Documents of the FSF Europe, a lot of them are by Georg Greve
- Articles from Georg Greve
- Georg Greve's Blog
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