[Bradford] Fwd: [MFS-Team] Talk by GNU Founder

[Michael Dorrington]

To clarify/confirm (as a few people have asked) the event is in Roscoe
Building.  See Manchester Uni page for the correct details:

http://www.cs.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/events/2012/stallman/

Regards,
Mike.
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On 19/06/12 08:11, Michael Dorrington wrote:
> Please feel free to forward this to those that would welcome it.
> 
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: [MFS-Team] Talk by GNU Founder
> Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2012 22:44:24 +0100
> From: Martin Turner
> 
> Sorry for short-notice the GNU founder is coming to talk in Manchester
> on Tuesday 26th June: all welcome and should be a very interesting talk.
> He is very much a copy-left character as well as influential, and will
> not be full of IT talk.
> 
> Can this be advertised on lists
> thanks in advance, Martin
> 
> 
> ---
> Dr Richard Stallman, Free Software Movement. "A Free Digital Society
> (alternate title; What Makes Digital Inclusion Good or Bad?)"
> 
> Tuesday 26th June, 5:00pm-6:30pm Theatre A, Roscoe Building (The
> University of Manchester)
> 
> Abstract: 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 behoves us to make sure it is
> the good kind.
> 
> Dr. Richard Stallman launched the free software movement in 1983 and
> started 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, with or without changes. 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 Takeda Award for Social/Economic
> Betterment, as well as several honorary doctorates.
> http://www.fsf.org/events/20120626-manchester
> ----
> 
> 




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