Dear Members, Spring is upon us! And in the spirit of renewal and regeneration, we look forward to discussing with you the Free Software Foundation's future projects and campaigns a week from this Saturday, on March 24th, 2007.
We have updated the schedule. Please, note the more recent changes, which are that: - the room number has changed and we will be meeting in room 3-270 http://student.mit.edu/roominv/roominv.cgi#3-270 in building 3 http://whereis.mit.edu/map-jpg?selection=3&Buildings=go of the MIT campus http://whereis.mit.edu/map-jpg?section=directions. - FSF Director Gerald J Sussman, Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT, will be giving a talk on both his recent work and developments in "Robust Design". - that we will be ending this year's meeting with the Annual Free Software Awards Ceremony. We will be honoring special guests in attendance with the Free Software Award for the Advancement of Free Software and the Free Software Award for Projects of Social Benefit. - we plan to have a mini-rockbox installfest during the lunch period. Rockbox is free software to replace the proprietary software on your iPod or other music device so, please, bring them if you have one. - if you can't attend, please, send any questions that you would like put to FSF leadership or have discussed during the members forum session to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Alternatively, please, add comments on the members forum discussion at http://www.fsf.org/associate/forum/general/. The schedule is as follows: 09:15-10:00 Breakfast, registration, and pgp key signing 10:00-10:25 Peter Brown, Executive Director - "Libre Planet" 10:25-10:50 John Sullivan, Program Administrator -"BadVista and the Campaign for Free Software Adoption" 10:50-11:05 Justin Baugh, Senior System Administrator - "Hardware Free from Restrictions" 11:05-11:20 Joshua Ginsberg, Senior System Administrator - "FSF Systems Administration" 11:20-11:35 Break 11:35-12:10 Brett Smith, Licensing Engineer - "Compliance and GPLv3" 12:10-12:50 Richard Stallman, President - "Software Patents" 12:50-13:50 Lunch and mini-rockbox installfast 13:50-14:40 Gerald Sussman, Director - "Robust Design" 14:40-15:20 Eben Moglen, General Counsel - "After GPLv3" 15:20-16:00 Board members panel and Q&A - "Year of the Upgrade" 16:00-16:15 Break 16:15-17:30 Members Forum - including a presentation by Mako Hill on "Defining Free Culture" 17:30-17:50 Free Software Awards Ceremony Please, RSVP to [EMAIL PROTECTED] is you wish to attend. There is no cost for attendance. Once again, we are also organizing a dinner to follow the meeting at The Middle East <http://www.mideastclub.com> in Cambridge, MA. The cost for this is $25 per person. (Drinks are extra.) You can pay for the dinner online at http://www.fsf.org/associate/meetings/2007. We look forward to seeing you there! Sincerely, Jeanne Rasata Membership Coordinator 617-542-5942 (x15) _______________________________________________ Info-member mailing list <[email protected]> http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-member
