[GNUz] RMS Talk - Thanks Rik and co... where to now?

[Rik Tindall]

Don Gould wrote:
> I'd like to express my thanks to everyone who set up today's talk!
>
> It was fantastic.  I learnt a lot of new things and cleared up 
> understanding of others.
>
> Frankly I don't know where to start with what I heard today.
>
> I've already spent 3 hours talking with my wife and father about the 
> issues and am no further ahead.
>   

That's great Don. It was an excellent chance for some of our local 
programmer community to hear some challenging thoughts, to make the FSF 
message more familiar.  The Canterbury event has been by far the largest 
and most successful for this tour so far, said RMS, helping colour 
Christchurch with uniquely strong GNU identity - a valuable point of 
difference, and related to the electronics specialisation and other 
characteristics here perhaps.

> FREEDOM
>
> I hope the group can spend some time talking more about the issues, to 
> help us all become more confident in explaining the concept of "Freedom" 
> to other people.
>   

"Where to now?" has to be Software Freedom Day 8, 20th September, it 
seems. We have public momentum around that event, and although RMS does 
not support it (distro-wise), he does allow that SFD usefully 
"introduces people to the concept of Freedom" at least. More later re 
SFD organisation.

Cheers, Rik

P.S. viz my replying to this list only, and the threaded debate on CLUG list, it has been the case that some subscribers took offence to GNU subject matter there; hence the GNUz list was set up to spare us all the flame-wars. Seems to have worked, and a constructive complementarity of roles has resulted. But feel free to suggest any further changes.