<html> <head> <style> .hmmessage P { margin:0px; padding:0px } body.hmmessage { FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY:Tahoma } </style> </head> <body class='hmmessage'>> This may be of interest to anyone on this list in the Manchester or > surrounding area. > > Regards, > Tony. > > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: [man-lug] Richard Stallman talk - Manchester (1st May) > Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2008 22:04:56 +0100 > From: Paul Waring <paul@xk7.net> > To: man-lug@lists.manchester.ac.uk, fsuk-manchester@nongnu.org > > [Please feel free to distribute this to other techy lists you may be on] > > Free of charge evening talk organised in association with the Manchester > branches of the BCS and IET. > > 'Free Software in Ethics and Practice' - speaker: Richard Stallman > > Thursday 1st May, 2008 - Talk starts at 6:45pm (ends approx. 8:30pm) > with refreshments from 6:15pm. > > Venue: Room D1, Renold Building, > University of Manchester, Sackville Street, Manchester M1 3BB > > There is no need to book a place - just turn up on the night. > > Abstract: > > Richard Stallman will speak about the Free Software Movement, > which campaigns for freedom so that computer users can cooperate > to control their own computing activities. The Free Software > Movement developed the GNU operating system, often erroneously > referred to as Linux, specifically to establish these freedoms. > > About the speaker: > > 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. > > -- > Paul Waring > http://www.pwaring.com > > ---------------------------------------------- > http://lists.manchester.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/man-lug > > ManLUG WWW Pages: http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/ > > > -- > Tony Arnold, IT Security Coordinator, University of Manchester, > IT Services Division, Kilburn Building, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL. > T: +44 (0)161 275 6093, F: +44 (0)870 136 1004, M: +44 (0)773 330 0039 > E: tony.arnold@manchester.ac.uk, H: http://www.man.ac.uk/Tony.Arnold > Sorry if this is forward, but do you know what was said to get him to do this talk? Jay <hr /> Have you played Fishticuffs? <a href='http://www.fishticuffs.co.uk' target='_new'>Get fish-slapping on Messenger</a></body> </html>