[Audio-video] [Fwd: Video Recording of 2011-04-20 Richard Stallman Speech at University of Pennsylvania - A Free Digital Society]

[Jeanne Rasata]

Speech info at https://www.fsf.org/events/20110420-fds-philadelphia.

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Subject: Video Recording of 2011-04-20 Richard Stallman Speech at
University of Pennsylvania - A Free Digital Society
From:    "Philip Peng" <address@hidden>
Date:    Thu, April 21, 2011 3:12 pm
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2011-04-20 Richard Stallman Speech at University of Pennsylvania - A
Free Digital Society
http://www.stwing.upenn.edu/~pengp/Files/Stallman/

See link for video recording of the speech - available for download
and/or streaming. If anyone is willing to provide mirrors or have
connections with the Daily Pennsylvania/other media sources, please do
so and let me know.

~Philip Peng
STWing Cronos


Philip Peng
School of Engineering and Applied Science
University of Pennsylvania
(312) 834-7364 / (215) 385-6227


Quoting "Steph Yang" <address@hidden>:

> Hello!
>
> Could you please forward this event to your listservs? Thank you and have a
> great day!
>
> Stephanie Yang
> stwing communications liaison
> _____________________________________________________________________
>
>
> On April 20th, University of Pennsylvania's STWing (Science and Technology
> Wing residential program) and the Dining Philosophers will be hosting an
> open speech by Dr. Richard Stallman, founder of the free software movement,
> on the topic of "A Free Digital Society". The event will take place in Wu
> and Chen Auditorium in Levine Hall at 4:30-7pm and will be free to attend
> and open to the general public.
>
> Richard Matthew Stallman (rms) is best known for starting the GNU Project (
> http://www.gnu.org/gnu/gnu.html ), for founding the Free Software
Foundation
> (http://www.fsf.org/ ), and pioneering GNU GPL (
> http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html ) as well as other copyleft licenses
> and free software/tools. The GNU Project currently provides the various
> tools and software that, with the addition of the Linux kernel, constitutes
> the popular GNU/Linux operating system that is used in millions of
computers
> today (via various free and non-free distributions such as gNewSense and
> Ubuntu).
>
> Over the years, Stallman has been an outspoken advocate and political
> activist for the free software movement (note: "open source" is different
> from "free software"; see
> http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point.html ), always
> encouraging others to keep the "hacker" culture alive. Since the mid-1990s,
> Stallman spends much of his time delivering speeches on free software,
> copyright ethics, and other related topics, not all technical in nature,
> with most targeted at the general public. He has received numerous awards
> and recognitions (listed on his personal website:
> http://stallman.org/#serious ) and is viewed by many as an internationally
> renowned and leading figure in the computer software community.
>
> Stallman summarizes his "A Free Digital Society" speech, alternatively
> titled <"What Makes Digital Inclusion Good or Bad?">, with the following:
>    Activities directed at "including" more people in the use of digital
>    technology are predicated on the assumption that such inclusion is
>    invariably a good thing.  It appears so, when judged solely by
>    immediate practical convenience.  However, if we also judge in terms
>    of human rights, whether digital inclusion is good or bad depends on
>    what kind of digital world we are to be included in.  If we wish to
>    work towards digital inclusion as a goal, it behooves us to make sure
>    it is the good kind.
>
> Please spread the word, mark down the date, and bring your friends! Copies
> of Stallman's book of essays, "Free Software, Free Society," will also be
> available for sale with a portion of the proceeds going to the Free
Software
> Foundation (a free copy can also be found at
> http://shop.fsf.org/product/free-software-free-society-2/ ).
>
> We hope to see you there!
>
> All the best,
> STWing
> http://www.stwing.upenn.edu/
>
> The Dining Philosophers
> http://dp.seas.upenn.edu/
>