Re: [Fsuk-manchester] Richard Stallman (rms/FSF/GNU) tour of GB at beginning of March.

[allcoms]

Right so who's going to see RMS in Lancs then? I've emailed him a few times in the past and he responded promptly which I was real impressed with as I bet he gets a fair bit of mail to deal with but thats not the same as getting to meet him in person so you can get him to sign your prize Linux boxen (best not take my Xebian running xbox for example) - I'll have to get him to sign my Zaurus C3000, laptop etc. but do you think he'll sign something if its got a regular, non-free bios or other non-free software within it?

Anyone know the craic with tickets? How much? Sold out yet? 

Now.. do I wear a vim or an MS t-shirt to the event to minimise my chances of blagging some sigs off Dick? ;)

On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 8:45 PM, Michael Dorrington <address@hidden> wrote:

Richard Stallman, aka rms, founder of the Free Software Foundation
(FSF), GNU's Not Unix (GNU) and the Free Software Movement is doing a
speaking tour of Great Britain¹ at the beginning of March. The ones
closest to Manchester are:

Wednesday, 2nd March: Preston
Saturday, 5th March: Sheffield

The Preston talk is at University of Lancaster. I don't have any more
details at the moment but you can see it listed as "A free digital
society" on:
http://www.theiet.org/local/uk/northwest/lancs-cumbria/index.cfm

The Sheffield talk is open for registration now.
http://www.theiet.org/local/uk/yorks/south/11-03-stallman-lecture.cfm
And I've been told that the venue is the: "Pennine Lecture Theatre at
Sheffield Hallam Uni ... which should make it easy enough to travel from
Manchester by train (only a few hundred yards from Sheffield train
station)."

You can see a video of Richard Stallman talking in Manchester in 2008 at:
http://www.archive.org/details/Richard.Stallman.Manchester.2008

I recommend attending.

The other GB venues are listed under March 2011 at:
http://libreplanet.org/wiki/Event:Richard_Stallman

Regards,
Mike.
MFS Chair.

¹ Not UK as Northern Ireland is missing from the tour! :(


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