[GNUz] RMS update

[Blair Bonnett]

Rik Tindall wrote:
> <snip> 
> It was a special request for our circumstances. However,
>
> Re: Topic: Computers, GNU, and Free Culture.
>
>    CC to RMS: can Richard please confirm this topic - an amalgamated 
> theme,    for an amalgamated public and university audience - as 
> suitable?
>
> RMS has said:
>
> "I have rarely done it, but I will give it a try."
>
> On reflection, it's quite like the "Copyright.." theme - you could use 
> that.
> Or write to rms AT gnu DOT org for clarification?
>  
> Cheers, Rik

(Tim - If the GNUZ list doesn't let this through, can you please forward 
it on?)

I've just submitted the following notice about the talk to Canta (the UC 
student magazine) which will be printed in next Wednesdays edition. From 
what I can tell from the title and the abstracts on the site I think the 
description should be fairly accurate. I'll also use this notice as the 
basis of some posters which should be stuck up around campus in the next 
few days. If anybody has any corrections we could probably sweet-talk 
the editor of Canta into making some changes in the next couple of days, 
or any further suggestions for the posters would be gratefully accepted 
(as it stands, the notice is at the word limit we were given so we can't 
really add anything to it).

We will also need to update the website ASAP so people visiting it for 
further details actually get further details as opposed to an 
out-of-date page...

Blair

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RMS On Campus
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Richard Stallman is the founder of the Free Software Foundation and a 
pioneer of the concept of copyleft - the idea that the recipient of a 
piece of work, be it software or otherwise, should have the ability to 
copy, share and modify the work to improve it for all. He also set up 
the GNU project to develop a completely free operating system which came 
to fruition in the GNU/Linux operating system widely used today, and was 
the instigator of numerous programs including Emacs, the GNU Compiler 
Collection and the GNU Debugger.

Since the mid-1990s he has spent most of his time advocating free 
software and related topics and as such is a widely requested speaker. 
Richard will be presenting a talk entitled "Computers, GNU, and Free 
Culture" in lecture theatre A1 this Saturday at 2pm which will be 
followed by a question and answer session. This will cover the problems 
with the current copyright system and changes needed to promote progress 
in the digital age, along with the goals and philosophy of the Free 
Software movement.

The talk is free and open to everybody with no bookings required. For 
further details see www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/freeculture

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