LXNY is delighted to co-sponsor this meeting with GNUbies. GNUbies is lead sponsor of this event, and the official GNUbies announcement is appended.
This meeting is free and open to the public. Richard Stallman will speak at 6:30 pm on Wednesday 4 January 2006 at Kaplan Test Prep and Admissions Manhattan Village 16 Cooper Square, two blocks south of Astor Place New York, NY 10003 Room number will be posted at door. Subway: Eighth Street stop on the N, R, sometimes W, lines; Astor Place on the 6 line; Third Avenue on the crosstown L line; Lower EastSide-Second Avenue-Houston Street on the F, V lines Note that some of these lines may not be running right. After RMS's talk, those who want to, will eat and drink and talk more. We do not know yet where we will eat. Likely several Pholk will join us. There will be working members of New Yorkers for Fair Use at this meeting. If you wish to help fight the WIPO Broadcasting Treaty, which is laughable in the crudity of its assault on our rights of property and free speech, even for a secret WIPO plot, come to this meeting. Here is James Love's brief account of the treaty: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/james-love/a-unwipo-plan-to-regulat_b_11480.html The treaty would take away copyright from authors and replace copyright with a new "netcaster's right", which in practice could only be held by a few large Infotainment corporations. In order to provide these corporations with direct power over the Net, and over the computer in your house, the treaty would require that all signatory governments enforce the Broadcast Flag. We've stopped the Broadcast Flag before http://www.mccullagh.org/theme/commerce-drm-rountable-july02.html http://www.nyfairuse.org/action/fcc.flag http://www.eff.org/IP/Video/HDTV/?f=broadcastflag.html in several fights in several places, including a court case after the FCC ignored a thousand individually composed comments against the Broadcast Flag. But if the WIPO Broadcasting Treaty is passed we will have to go court again, so it is best to stop the treaty before WIPO adopts it. Useful reading about Free Software: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/philosophy.html http://www.fsf.org http://www.knoppix.net http://www.cfsg.org http://www.gnubies.org http://www.lxny.org http://www.nylug.org http://www.sixgirls.org http://www.debian.org http://www.linux.org http://www.debian.org/ports/hurd http://www.squeak.org http://www.freebsd.org http://www.netbsd.org http://www.openbsd.org http://www.oreilly.com/openbook/freedom Jay Sulzberger <secretary at lxny.org> Corresponding Secretary LXNY LXNY is New York's Free Computing Organization. http://www.lxny.org <blockquote what="official GNUbies announcement"> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Richard Stallman to speak at GNUbies Jan 4, 2006 Gnubies is back with a bang! The ultimate speaker for GNUbies, the one who started it all, the founder of the Free Software movement and the one who led the development of GNU, and a speaker everyone should hear will be speaking this coming Wednesday, Jan 4, 2006. This should be a great meeting and a great talk. Richard Stallman, aka RMS, is always entertaining and inspiring for techies and non-techies alike. Guaranteed to make you think. The details can be found below. ~~~~~~~~~~Richard Stallman talk information~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Who: Richard Stallman McArthur Fellow, founder the Free Software movement and GNU development leader What: What's GNU? Software that respects your freedom. A talk described as follows: The GNU Operating System (sometimes mistakenly called Linux) was developed so people can use computers and keep their freedom. This nontechnical talk explains the ethical and social issues of Free Software. When: Wednesday, January 4, 2006 at 6:30 pm Where: Kaplan Test Prep and Admissions 16 Cooper Square New York, NY 10003 The Auditorium (room 106) As always the talk is free and open to the public. For more details please check the website at http://www.gnubies.org or http://www.eskimo.com/~lo/linux </blockquote> _______________________________________________ Gnu-misc-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
