A reminder, the WLUG Fixit Meeting is today.
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Saturday Workshop has been postponed for a week due to all of the keyholders being away on a course on Saturday 1st. Workshop will be on Saturday 8th.
The WLUG Fixit Meeting is 1 week away.
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Saturday March 8th, 10:00 am to 4:00 pm
We will be holding our SaturdayWorkshop (a week later than usual) at Te Whanau PÅ«tahi (http://zoomin.co.nz/nz/hamilton/enderley/-te+whanau+ptahi/?place/full_map) the community church at the end of Oxford Street.
We'll have the usual tables, power, various ISO's, Internet, coffee and light lunch, etc.
"I wonder if The Honorable David Cunliffe could be persuaded to attend."
That sounds like a good idea, but as an election will be around that time, an invite to likely contenders for his job from other party's may also be in order?
David
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Hello,
I'm an ex pat kiwi from Hamilton living in Stockholm Sweden.
I met Richard Stallman last night at the Swedish Royal Institute of Technology. I asked him if he had visited New
Zealand and he said he had done twice and is planning to return there again this year in August to do some talks.
I asked him is he had ever been to Hamilton and Waikato university, but he hadn't.
Then he said to me "I'm open to going to new places and my schedule is not set yet, so if you your interested in me
coming there for a talk get in contact with me"
So, as I've been away from Hamilton since 1992, I hand over this information you, the Waikato GNU/Linux users group.
I have a contact here in the Freesoftware foundation who has the good contact with Richard Stallman and has his
contact details.
This is a great opportunity that I think Waikato University should look into. Last night Richard Stallman held a free
two hour talk on FreeSoftware to 300 people here in Stockholm.
I don't have any contacts at the Waikato University computer science department, so I'm hoping someone who reads this
will contact me regarding follow up of this opportunity.
I wrote in my blog about last night if your interested in knowing more.
http://nordickiwi.no-ip.com/blog/
Regards
Roger Sinel
roger.sinel(a)nordickiwi.comwww.nordickiwi.com
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Your Welcome,
Yes Richard Stallman has very strong views. He is a very interesting
speaker that captivates his audience. Last night he got the crowd
laughing and applauding as he spoke. Then had us dead silent as he
vibrantly spoke about other powerful issues. Weather one agrees with
them or not it's a special thing to hear these views addressed with a
live audience.
/Roger
On Thu, 2008-02-28 at 09:43 +1300, Daniel Lawson wrote:
> On 28/02/2008, at 9:20 AM, Roger Sinel wrote:
>
> > Daniel, yes after I sent this e-mail to the list I searched for
> > Richard
> > Stallman and Waikato university and I also saw that he had been there
> > before. http://list.waikato.ac.nz/pipermail/wlug/1999-March/
> > 000030.html
> >
> > Yes he has traveled a lot and still does, so names and places would be
> > hard to remember. But he did say, Auckland, Wellington and
> > Christchurch.
>
> :)
>
> Thanks for thinking of it anyway - it's always good to get interesting
> speakers in. Not everyone agrees with RMS's position on a lot of
> things, but if everyone agreed on things life would get pretty dull.
--
Mvh
Roger Sinel
roger.sinel(a)nordickiwi.comwww.nordickiwi.com
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Hey Guys,
Can everyone please refrain from trying to set the record straight as to
when/if Richard Stallman visited last ?
It's an awesome opportunity which Bruce is currently pursuing as we
speak.
Sorry Daniel, your email was the first one, so I grabbed that.
On Thu, 2008-02-28 at 09:11 +1300, Daniel Lawson wrote:
> > I asked him is he had ever been to Hamilton and Waikato university,
> > but he hadn't.
>
> Which is odd, because I saw him talk at Waikato University in Hamilton
> in the late 90's.
>
> I guess he's been so many places, keeping track of them all is
> hard... :)
>
>
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Matthew Holloway has set up a petition here:
http://iso-vote.com/petition.html
If you feel that OOXML is not worthy of being fast-tracked into an ISO
standard, here's a chance to let Standards NZ know about it.
