[Nottingham] Possible Richard Stallman talk in Nottingham - Who's interested?

[Eben]

Oh god yes. Definitely interested. I will even comb his neckbeard if he wishes.

On Sat,   2 Jul 2011, 17:58:29 BST, Martin <martin at ml1.co.uk> wrote:

> Folks,
> 
> I'm sure most people have heard of Richard Matthew Stallman, more
> commonly known as rms ... (If not, his name is on a lot of the "GNU"
> part of the software on "GNU/Linux" systems. Also significantly famous
> for the GPL and "copyleft".)
> 
> Provided we can persuade him to visit Nottingham, how many of our
> group would be keen to hear him speak for an evening on one of 22-24
> Aug 2011 (Monday - Wednesday)?
> 
> Please say if interested/definite so we can gauge how big an event to
> plan for if we can go for it.
> 
> 
> Should make for an interesting evening with the man behind the FSF and
> one of the big names in today's computing in general.
> 
> Cheers,
> Martin
> 
> 
> Disclaimer: Note that there is a huge amount of credit to be
> acknowledged to very many people that have all contributed to put
> together the "Free/Libre Open Source" world that we all now positively
> take advantage of.
> 
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