Hi Thought some people might be interested in this. It is open to anyone.
This map http://www.strath.ac.uk/maps/images/royal.gif shows where the Royal College building is. Kenny > COMPUTER AND INFORMATION SCIENCES SEMINAR > > Robert J. Chassell > Founding Director and Treasurer of the Free Software Foundation > > Free Software: Access and Empowerment > Thursday 7 February @ 14:00 > Royal College room R641 - 204 George Street, Glasgow G1 1XW > > Talk Abstract > > What I want to do is explain what free software is, describe its > history briefly, and tell you how it gives you more access and more > power within the world of the Internet and high technology. > > I will discuss the confusion that results from the two meanings of the > word `free' in English, and the way the legal framework of freedom > leads to competitive free markets. > Then, I will talk about education and business. > > More at http://www.teak.cc/Access-speech.html ... > > About the Speaker > > Robert J. Chassell was a founding Director and Treasurer of the Free > Software Foundation, Inc. The FSF was founded to support the GNU > Project which restarted the movement towards free software and open > sources. The GNU/Linux operating system and associated applications > are the outcome of these efforts by the Foundation. > > Chassell writes and edits. He is the author of "An Introduction to > Programming in Emacs Lisp", co-author of the "Texinfo" manual, and an > editor of more than a dozen other books. He graduated from Cambridge > University, in England. He flies his own airplane, and has an abiding > interest in social and economic history. > > http://www.rattlesnake.com > http://www.gnu.org > -- Kenny Duffus Department of Computer & Information Sciences University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK Tel: +44 (0)141 548 3592 Fax: +44 (0)141 552 5330 -------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.lug.org.uk http://www.linuxportal.co.uk http://www.linuxjob.co.uk http://www.linuxshop.co.uk --------------------------------------------------------------------
