On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 9:31 AM, Royce Souther <[email protected]> wrote: > I was thinking of driving to Calgary for this but if it is free and the room > will be packed then it is not worth the bother.
It's 182 seats... It's free because it's paid for by the university: http://www.law.ualberta.ca/News--Events/News.php?news_id=181 "The Merv Leitch QC Memorial Lecture series was established by friends and associates of Mr. C. Mervin Leitch BA LLB QC, to honour the significant contributions he made while serving his fellow Albertans and Canadians in general." Using "it is free" and very weak speculation of it being busy as excuses is weak. The topic is: "Copyright vs Community in the Age of Computer Networks." If you're not interested in that, then don't go. If you are interested, well, RMS will not live forever, so if you can make it, go! > I see no harm in charging $5 a head for people that truly want to be there. > The money could be given to the Free Software Foundation, they do good work > with the money. Again, you're missing the point of the lecture. He's not here to raise money for the FSF, but I'm sure he would love any donations you can convince people to give. Pass a bucket around when you're there, maybe? > Maybe next time he comes to town a better plan can be in place so us country > folk in Lethbridge can attend. Maybe he'll come to COSSFest sometime... but I wouldn't count on it. I made up some lame excuses to not see George Carlin when he came to Calgary a while ago, and have regretted it ever since. -Mark C. _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
