Gérald SÉDRATI-DINET

born 1971, June 21st, France (Montbéliard)

79, rue Philippe de Girard — 75018 Paris — France

+33 1 46 07 10 03 - +33 6 60 56 36 45

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gibus(at)april(dot)org

http://www.april.org/

GPG Public Key

Job Objective

Study and stimulate political, legal and economical conditions for a democratic usage of information technologies (lobbying, legal monitoring, promotion of ethical values, etc). Job desired in partial time (4/5) for a minimal yearly gross salary of EUR 40 000.

Positions in Non-Profit Organizations

From 2007, July: Expert in software patentent for APRIL (French association for promotion and research in libre computing).
From 2006, February to 2007, July: Founder and Président of FFII France (French chapter of FFII).
From 2004, April to 2006, November: Vice-president of FFII (Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure).

Skills & Achievements

Direct lobbying with Members of European Parliament (MEPs), contributing to:

2005/07/06: rejection of "European directive on the patentability of computer-implemented inventions" (aka. directive on sofwtare patents).
2006/10/12: amendment of a "Resolution from European Parliament on Future of Patent System", concerning European Patent Litigation Agreement (EPLA).

Organisation of supporters:

Actions to mobilize supporters (petitions, protests, etc.)
Collection and publication of contact informations for MEPs, French MEPs or French deputies.
Instructions for contacting politicians.
Production of rationales to provide arguments.
Writing of templates or public letters.
Analysis, intructions, petition to answer to a consultation from Euorpean commission about European patents.
Analysis and instructions for action concerning EPLA.

Analyses of legal documents and political positions:

Articles on software patents:

The non-patent side of software patents (French), see also slides in English.
The recombining of the European political scene illustrated by the directive on the software patents (French), see also rough translation i English.
Software patents vs. free flow of knowledge(French)
Devising examples for Patent absurdity, published by Richard Stallman.

Press Relations (main quotes, interviews and press releases):

FFII.fr Press releases.
Revue de Presse interactive: interview in Radio Ici & Maintenant (2005/02/17).
À travers le logiciel, les pro-brevets visent les méthodes intellectuelles: interview in Journal du Net (2005/03/02).
Brevets logiciels: le Conseil européen passe en force: quote in ZDNet.fr (2005/03/07).
Adoption by EU Council of an (un-)common position: interview on Radio DIvergence-FM (2005/03/10).
Le Parlement européen va se prononcer sur la brevetabilité du logiciel: quote in Le Monde (2005/07/05).
Brevets logiciels : les réactions au rejet: interview in Journal du Net (2005/07/07).
L'Europe enterre la directive sur les brevets logiciels: quote in 01net (2005/07/06).
La brevetisation pousse à une appropriation des idées: Interview in L'Humanité (2005/05/12).
Longue vie à la FFII France: quote in GNU/Linux Pratique (2006/03/04).
Les débats sur l'EPLA pourraient relancer la guerre sur les brevets logiciels: quote in Le Monde Informatique (2006/10/12).
Le système actuel des brevets n'est pas viable: quote in Newropeans Magazine (2006/12/15).

Computing tasks:

Design of a website, based on SPIP (CMS PHP/MySQL) and an associated wiki.
Configuration and customization of a members management system, based on Galette (PHP/MySQL).
Extraction/transformation/load (ETL) to build a database (PostgreSQL) containing amendments and consecutive versions of articles/recitals of the European directive on software patents (Perl/XML).
ETL and intelligence on MEPs/MPs infos (Perl/XML), used for eg. for scoring on votes of amendments or follow-up of politicians' positions.
Automation for integration of RSS feeds into SPIP (Perl/HTML/SQL).
Automation for Press Release delivery (Perl/SQL).
Design of web banners (Gimp).

Lectures:

Perl Mongers Days 2004 (2004/06/06).
"Information Society under control: forum organised by Attac (2004/10/10).
Hearing at Nationale Assembly by parlementary study group on Internet (2005/01/26).
Round table at National Assembly, with Thaima Samman (Microsoft France) and Jean-François Abramatic (Ilog/W3C) (2005/02/15).
Hearing at National Assembly by parlementary delegation on European Union (2005/06/15).
LinuxEdu 2005 (2005/05/19).
Libre Software Meeting 2005, Dijon (2005/07/06).
University of Toulouse (2006/11/23).

Translation (English/French) of FFII's materials:

Professional Experience

2007: OpenTrust, senior developper of Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) solutions.
2001-2006: Xyleme, senior developper of solutions in XMLization of legacy documents to be stored in an XML data warehouse.
2000-2001: Unlost, developper of a crawler (Perl) for a morpho-syntaxical search engine.
1994-2000: Bull, developper (C/Perl) and maintainer of an SNMP agent toolkit.

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