Re: Idea: FSF speaker?

> 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