Nick Rout wrote:
On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 4:30 PM, Rik Tindall <[email protected]> wrote:
Thanks Roger,
Room: A1 Lecture Theatre [Arts block]
Date(s): Tuesday, 13/10/2009
Time: 17:00-19:00
Booked For: Richard Stallman talk
Event Name: Richard Stallman talk
+ topic to be defined soon.
Shame whoever is organising these things doesn't seem to realise that
some people work until 5.00pm
It's end-of-term, so the place shuts down after we leave..
Also, it's an official CompSci Seminar now, which resolves quite a few
issues.
I hope people can get along to most of this long session (and still have
their evening free).
These are the finalised details going into publicity from today:
Event Name: A free digital society
To make a digital society worthy of being included in, we must
overcome six menaces to freedom: surveillance, censorship, restricted
data formats, proprietary software, software as a service, and the War
on Sharing.
Bio: Richard Stallman
Richard Stallman launched the development of the GNU operating system
(see www.gnu.org) in 1984. GNU is free software: everyone has the
freedom to copy it and redistribute it, as well as to make changes
either large or small. The GNU/Linux system, basically the GNU
operating system with Linux added, is used on tens of millions of
computers today. Stallman has received the ACM Grace Hopper Award, a
MacArthur Foundation fellowship, the Electronic Frontier Foundation's
Pioneer award, and the the Takeda Award for Social/Economic
Betterment, as well as several honorary doctorates.
