---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Peter Teuben <[email protected]> Date: Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 5:49 PM Subject: Fwd: [MITH-COMMUNITY] iPAC Talk: Richard Stallman, Free Software Foundation, 11/22/11, 2 pm To: [email protected]
fyi -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [MITH-COMMUNITY] iPAC Talk: Richard Stallman, Free Software Foundation, 11/22/11, 2 pm Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2011 10:53:25 -0500 From: Katie Shilton <[email protected]><[email protected]> Reply-To: Katie Shilton <[email protected]> <[email protected]> To: [email protected] The Information Policy and Access Center and the College of Information Studies at the University of Maryland College Park present: Richard Stallman Free Software in Ethics and in Practice November 22, 2011, 2 pm Chemical & Life Sciences, Room 1402 Richard Stallman will speak about the goals and philosophy of the Free Software Movement. The Free Software Movement campaigns for computer users' freedom to cooperate and control their own computing. The Free Software Movement developed the GNU operating system, typically used together with the kernel Linux, specifically to make these freedoms possible. Bio: Richard Stallman launched the free software movement in 1983 and started the development of the GNU operating system (see www.gnu.org) in 1984. GNU is free software: everyone has the freedom to copy it and redistribute it, as well as to make changes either large or small. The GNU/Linux system, basically the GNU operating system with Linux added, is used on tens of millions of computers today. Stallman has received the ACM Grace Hopper Award, a MacArthur Foundation fellowship, the Electronic Frontier Foundation's Pioneer Award, and the the Takeda Award for Social/Economic Betterment, as well as several honorary doctorates. -- Katie Shilton Assistant Professor College of Information Studies University of Maryland, College [email protected] _______________________________________________ UMLUG-officers mailing list [email protected] http://umoss.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/umlug-officers
