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I am a lawyer currently working at a Swiss tech law firm. I am an <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://wiki.endsoftwarepatents.org/wiki/Special:ListUsers?username=Panos+Alevropoulos&group=sysop&limit=1">administrator</a> of ESP Wiki. In 2021 I was an <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/my-internship-at-the-fsf-and-the-domino-effect-of-thoughts">FSF intern</a> with the licensing and campaigns teams. During my internship I completed an <a href="/wiki/ESP_Wiki:About#Project_updates" title="ESP Wiki:About">overhaul</a> of the <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://endsoftwarepatents.org">End Software Patents</a> campaign, giving new life to what I regard as one of the most important efforts of the <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://fsf.org">Free Software Foundation</a>. </p><p>I also contribute much of my free time as a volunteer to the <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.fsf.org/licensing/team">FSF Licensing & Compliance Lab</a> and the <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://directory.fsf.org">Free Software Directory</a>. </p> </div>   </div>  </div><div class="printfooter"> Retrieved from "<a dir="ltr" href="https://wiki.endsoftwarepatents.org/w/index.php?title=User:Panos_Alevropoulos&oldid=38465">https://wiki.endsoftwarepatents.org/w/index.php?title=User:Panos_Alevropoulos&oldid=38465</a>"</div> <div class="visualClear"></div></div></div></div><div id="content-bottom-stuff"><div id="catlinks" class="catlinks catlinks-allhidden" data-mw="interface"></div></div><div class="visualClear"></div></div></div><div id="mw-footer-container" class="ts-container"><div id="mw-footer" class="ts-inner"><div id="footer-bottom" role="contentinfo" lang="en" dir="ltr"><div id="f-etcico" class="footer-icons"><a href="https://www.fsf.org/"><img src="https://static.fsf.org/nosvn/logos/FSF_logo_white.svg" alt="Logo for the Free Software Foundation" height="40" width="88"/></a></div><div id="f-copyrightico" class="footer-icons"><a href="https://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html"><img src="/w/resources/assets/licenses/gnu-fdl.png" alt="GNU Free Documentation License 1.3" width="88" height="31"/></a></div><div id="f-poweredbyico" class="footer-icons"><a href="//www.mediawiki.org/"><img src="/w/resources/assets/poweredby_mediawiki_88x31.png" alt="Powered by MediaWiki" srcset="/w/resources/assets/poweredby_mediawiki_132x47.png 1.5x, /w/resources/assets/poweredby_mediawiki_176x62.png 2x" width="88" height="31"/></a></div><ul id="f-list" class="footer-places"><li id="lastmod"> This page was last edited on 20 February 2023, at 03:52.</li><li id="copyright">Content is available under <a class="external" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html">GNU Free Documentation License 1.3</a> unless otherwise noted.</li><li id="about"><a href="/wiki/ESP_Wiki:About" title="ESP Wiki:About">About ESP Wiki</a></li><li id="disclaimer"><a href="/wiki/ESP_Wiki:General_disclaimer" title="ESP Wiki:General disclaimer">Disclaimer</a></li><li id="priv"><a href="https://www.fsf.org/about/free-software-foundation-privacy-policy">Privacy Policy</a></li><li id="LibreJS"><a href="https://weblabels.fsf.org/en.swpat.org/CURRENT/" rel="jslicense">JavaScript licenses</a></li></ul><div class="visualClear"></div></div></div></div></div><script>(window.RLQ=window.RLQ||[]).push(function(){mw.config.set({"wgPageParseReport":{"limitreport":{"cputime":"0.016","walltime":"1.698","ppvisitednodes":{"value":3,"limit":1000000},"ppgeneratednodes":{"value":42,"limit":1000000},"postexpandincludesize":{"value":8,"limit":2097152},"templateargumentsize":{"value":0,"limit":2097152},"expansiondepth":{"value":2,"limit":40},"expensivefunctioncount":{"value":0,"limit":100},"unstrip-depth":{"value":0,"limit":20},"unstrip-size":{"value":0,"limit":5000000},"timingprofile":["100.00% 0.000 1 -total"]},"cachereport":{"timestamp":"20250220173343","ttl":86400,"transientcontent":false}}});});</script> <script type="text/javascript"> // @license magnet:?xt=urn:btih:1f739d935676111cfff4b4693e3816e664797050&dn=gpl-3.0.txt GPL-v3-or-Later var _paq = _paq || []; _paq.push(["trackPageView"]); _paq.push(["enableLinkTracking"]); (function() { var u = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? 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