From: "Mike Schwartz" Subject: Idea: FSF speaker? (was: Re: New Eben Moglen speech [...]) Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 13:47:21 -0700 > On 5/16/07, Dennis Kibbe wrote: > > > > From: "Ben Francom" > > Subject: Re: New Eben Moglen speech available > > Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 06:44:49 -0700 > > > > > On 5/16/07, Alan Dayley wrote: > > > > > > > > Given at the Red Hat Summit. I downloaded it last night but have not > > > > watched yet. I have every confidence that it is worth listening to. > > > > > > > > > Just finished watching it. He is the man! One of his main points about > > the > > > Novell-Microsoft deal is, "We're [Gnu/Linux is] an ecological > > system. If > > > you undermine community defenses, you're undermining the whole > > ecology. And > > > doing that for the benefit of your customers at the expense of your > > > suppliers is not a good way to stay in business." > > > > Would you like to meet Eben Moglen? Maybe talk patents with him over > > dinner? Or discuss Free software with RMS? Maybe talk to Bruce Perens or > > the OLPC people? How about programming with Gene Sussman? All on the > > campus of MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts. > > > > You can if you make plans to attent the next membership meeting of the > > Free Software Foundation in Boston (approx. March 2008). > > > > It's free and held on the weekend. USAir has a direct flight for about > > $260USD round trip. The Hotel @ MIT is within warking distance -- where else > > can you log into wifi in your room and be asked if you want a static IP? > > > > With less than 200 attending you'll have plenty of opportunities to talk > > with the people who are shaping the future. > > > > Dennisk > > --------------------------------------------------- > > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: > > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > > I am not trying to discourage anyone from attending > the FSF meeting; this is just a different idea, that > popped up, while I was thinking about what DennisK wrote... > If PLUG (or some other non-profit .org) wants to bring > any of those folks to AZ, to speak, > then I might know a way how we could > [find the money to] pay for the travel expenses; > There is a certain non-profit .org I know of, whose > local members have sorta lost interest > (for about the last 5 years or so), > but whose treasurer still pays dues, > and has the check book, > and in fact that .org has recently (about a year ago) > sponsored (the meeting room fees for) some meetings > of another non-profit .org > (long story... more details available, but > outside the scope of this post...). > Also, I seem to recall having some e-mail exhanges > circa late 1992, with Laurie Faith Ackerman (her last > name might be different now) in St Louis. At that time > RMS was going to be in town anyway for something > else (I think the CS dept was paying for him to fly in, > and speak about Emacs or the history of its development, > something like that), so anyway some group of rebels > (this was before the days of LUGs), maybe it was a > student chapter of ACM > (see my e-mail address)["Reply-To: " header] > was also having RMS as a speaker, which they were > able to do at little or no cost - I guess just the extra > for another day or two in St Louis. At that time at least, > RMS preferred to stay with someone who wanted a > chance to talk to him - (I guess he considered money > spent on a hotel as, not well spent...) I am not sure > whether his tastes have changed... In any event, we > never did get things worked out, for RMS to travel to > AZ, and "while in the area" maybe also squeeze in a > speaking opportunity in LA and/or maybe Denver or > El Paso, or ?... > But maybe now might be the right time... > perhaps before or (probably) after that FSF meeting? > Just an idea, > from > -- > Mike Schwartz > Glendale AZ > schwartz@acm.org > Mike.L.Schwartz@gmail.com Hi Mike, I'll ask about a speaker when I'm back at the FSF office next week. This would be a good event for AZOTA to sponsor since it's more about Freedom than Linux. I've already been touch with Joshua Gay, FSF's new Campaigns Manager. Dennisk --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss