[Wylug-discuss] [Wylug-announce] ShefLUG - March 2011 Meeting

[Roger Greenwood]

Just for future reference, IET = Institute of Engineering and Technology

It incorporates the old IEE (Institute of Electrical Engineers)

RogerG

MIET

On 02/27/2011 12:48 PM, Richard Ibbotson wrote:
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> Sheffield Linux Users Group (ShefLUG)
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> Meetings are free and open to anyone to attend
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> Saturday 5th. March 10.00 a.m. to 1.00 p.m.
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> The next meeting will be on the 5th of March. This will be a return
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> to one of our large scale meetings. This will take place at the
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> University of Sheffield Auditorium, Sheffield University Union of
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> Students, Western Bank, Sheffield, S10 2TN. From 10.00 a.m. to
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> approximately 13.00. For directions to the University have a look
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> here….
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> http://www.shef.ac.uk/visitors/mapsandtravel
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> There is a free car park available on Durham road, just off Glossop
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> Road (S10 2JA) and pay & display parking around the University area.
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> People travelling by train can catch the Supertram for
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> Middlewood/Hillsborough at the Sheffield Midland Station and alight at
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> the University. The Students Union complex is across the road from the
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> tram stop
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> The subject of the meeting ? One of our ShefLUGer’s e-mailed
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> Richard Stallman to ask him if he would like to return to Sheffield once
> again to give a public lecture. This was well received on previous
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> occasions. RMS accepted and in the process of working up a schedule
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> and finance the South Yorkshire branch of the British Computing
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> Society became involved and so did the South Yorkshire branch of the
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> Institute of Electrical Technologists. RMS will be giving a lecture
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> in Sheffield as part of the European and British tour taking place in
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> March of this year. When he lands in England he will tour from the
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> South coast up to Scotland taking in some major cities. For the one
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> person on this planet who has never heard of RMS have a look here….
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> http://stallman.org/. RMS is the founding father of the GNU project
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> which was launched in 1983/4. He is well known for his public
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> presentations. RMS has received the ACM Grace Hopper Award, a
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> MacArthur Foundation fellowship, the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s
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> Pioneer Award, the Takeda Social/Economic Betterment award, and
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> several honorary doctorates. Not to be missed. For the public
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> lecture in Sheffield he will be giving a talk entitled “Copyright vs
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> Community in the Age of Computer Networks”.
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> Copyright developed in the age of the printing press and was designed
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> to fit in with the system of centralised copying imposed by this
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> technology. But, the copyright system does not fit well with computer
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> networks and only Draconian punishments can enforce it. The global
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> corporations that profit from copyright are lobbying for Draconian
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> punishments, and to increase their copyright powers, while suppressing
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> public access to technology. But if we seriously hope to serve the
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> only legitimate purpose of copyright, to promote progress for the
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> benefit of the public, then we must make changes in the other
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> direction. Richard Stallman launched the development of the GNU
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> operating system (see www.gnu.org) in 1983. GNU is free software –
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> everyone has the freedom to copy it and redistribute it, as well as to
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> make changes, either large or small. The GNU/Linux system, basically
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> the GNU operating system with Linux added is used on tens of millions
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> of computers today. The lecture is free but you will have to register
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> in order to cover health and safety regulations. To register for this
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> event go to…..
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> http://localevents.theiet.org/register.php?event=c0ef7e
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> We might just go round to the Benjamin Huntsman for a few beers and
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> food afterwards.
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> The Benjamin Huntsman
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> 12-18 Cambridge Street
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> Sheffield
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> South Yorkshire
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> S1 4HP
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> Phone: 0114 263 9500
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> http://www.jdwetherspoon.co.uk/home/pubs/the-benjamin-huntsman
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> --
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> Richard
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> http://www.sheflug.org.uk
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