<p>I'm sorry to say I think you've missed this. It was 5pm - 6:30pm Tuesday June 26th.</p>
<p>I'm told that RMS is due back in the UK twice later this year though. So you should get another chance to see him :)</p>
<p>Dan</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Jun 26, 2012 6:11 PM, "Sujita Purushothaman" <<a href="mailto:sujita.purushothaman@gmail.com">sujita.purushothaman@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Anybody from LivLUG attending?<br>
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Rgds<br>
Sujita<br>
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On 20 Jun 2012, at 09:24, Michael Dorrington <<a href="mailto:michael.dorrington@gmail.com">michael.dorrington@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> To clarify/confirm (as a few people have asked) the event is in Roscoe<br>
> Building. See Manchester Uni page for the correct details:<br>
><br>
> <a href="http://www.cs.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/events/2012/stallman/" target="_blank">http://www.cs.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/events/2012/stallman/</a><br>
><br>
> Regards,<br>
> Mike.<br>
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> On 19/06/12 08:11, Michael Dorrington wrote:<br>
>> Please feel free to forward this to those that would welcome it.<br>
>><br>
>> -------- Original Message --------<br>
>> Subject: [MFS-Team] Talk by GNU Founder<br>
>> Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2012 22:44:24 +0100<br>
>> From: Martin Turner<br>
>><br>
>> Sorry for short-notice the GNU founder is coming to talk in Manchester<br>
>> on Tuesday 26th June: all welcome and should be a very interesting talk.<br>
>> He is very much a copy-left character as well as influential, and will<br>
>> not be full of IT talk.<br>
>><br>
>> Can this be advertised on lists<br>
>> thanks in advance, Martin<br>
>><br>
>><br>
>> ---<br>
>> Dr Richard Stallman, Free Software Movement. "A Free Digital Society<br>
>> (alternate title; What Makes Digital Inclusion Good or Bad?)"<br>
>><br>
>> Tuesday 26th June, 5:00pm-6:30pm Theatre A, Roscoe Building (The<br>
>> University of Manchester)<br>
>><br>
>> Abstract: Activities directed at ‘’including'' more people in the use of<br>
>> digital technology are predicated on the assumption that such inclusion<br>
>> is invariably a good thing. It appears so, when judged solely by<br>
>> immediate practical convenience. However, if we also judge in terms of<br>
>> human rights, whether digital inclusion is good or bad depends on what<br>
>> kind of digital world we are to be included in. If we wish to work<br>
>> towards digital inclusion as a goal, it behoves us to make sure it is<br>
>> the good kind.<br>
>><br>
>> Dr. Richard Stallman launched the free software movement in 1983 and<br>
>> started the development of the GNU operating system (see <a href="http://www.gnu.org" target="_blank">www.gnu.org</a>) in<br>
>> 1984. GNU is free software: everyone has the freedom to copy it and<br>
>> redistribute it, with or without changes. The GNU/Linux system,<br>
>> basically the GNU operating system with Linux added, is used on tens of<br>
>> millions of computers today. Stallman has received the ACM Grace Hopper<br>
>> Award, a MacArthur Foundation fellowship, the Electronic Frontier<br>
>> Foundation's Pioneer Award, and the Takeda Award for Social/Economic<br>
>> Betterment, as well as several honorary doctorates.<br>
>> <a href="http://www.fsf.org/events/20120626-manchester" target="_blank">http://www.fsf.org/events/20120626-manchester</a><br>
>> ----<br>
>><br>
>><br>
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