Richard Stallman - Waikato University
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.com www.nordickiwi.com + gpg key -- http://www.nordickiwi.com/rsinel.asc + fingerprint -- F0EF 2C17 99CA DC06 132A 967F B642 D0BA 6503 87C7
On 28/02/2008, at 4:31 AM, rsinel(a)bredband.net wrote:
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.
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... :)
Which is odd, because I saw him talk at Waikato University in Hamilton in the late 90's.
A colleague of mine pointed me to this post: http://list.waikato.ac.nz/pipermail/wlug/1999-March/000030.html I've also forwarded the initial post to the computer science staff here at uni. Let's see whether somebody is interested in having him here (again) and willing to organize something. Cheers, Peter -- Peter Reutemann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, NZ http://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ +64 (7) 838-4466 Ext. 5174
Thank-you Peter, That is appreciated. /Roger Sinel On Thu, 2008-02-28 at 09:15 +1300, Peter Reutemann wrote:
Which is odd, because I saw him talk at Waikato University in Hamilton in the late 90's.
A colleague of mine pointed me to this post: http://list.waikato.ac.nz/pipermail/wlug/1999-March/000030.html
I've also forwarded the initial post to the computer science staff here at uni. Let's see whether somebody is interested in having him here (again) and willing to organize something.
Cheers, Peter -- Mvh Roger Sinel roger.sinel(a)nordickiwi.com www.nordickiwi.com
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I went along when he was here last, and I would very much like to hear him speak again. Many things have happened since then and it would be interesting to hear his view on some of these issues. On 28/02/2008, Peter Reutemann <fracpete(a)waikato.ac.nz> wrote:
Which is odd, because I saw him talk at Waikato University in Hamilton in the late 90's.
A colleague of mine pointed me to this post: http://list.waikato.ac.nz/pipermail/wlug/1999-March/000030.html
I've also forwarded the initial post to the computer science staff here at uni. Let's see whether somebody is interested in having him here (again) and willing to organize something.
Cheers, Peter
-- Peter Reutemann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, NZ http://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ +64 (7) 838-4466 Ext. 5174
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I went along when he was here last, and I would very much like to hear him speak again. Many things have happened since then and it would be interesting to hear his view on some of these issues.
Just a quick update: Richard Stallman has been now officially invited by Prof Ian Witten. Since Ian will be in Europe during August, Prof Mark Apperley will be the host (he was also the host back in 1999). Let's hope that he'll have a chance to give a talk here at Waikato university. Would be really cool! :-) Cheers, Peter -- Peter Reutemann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, NZ http://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ Ph. +64 (7) 858-5174
On 28/02/2008, Peter Reutemann <fracpete(a)cs.waikato.ac.nz> wrote:
I went along when he was here last, and I would very much like to hear him speak again. Many things have happened since then and it would be interesting to hear his view on some of these issues.
Just a quick update: Richard Stallman has been now officially invited by Prof Ian Witten. Since Ian will be in Europe during August, Prof Mark Apperley will be the host (he was also the host back in 1999).
Let's hope that he'll have a chance to give a talk here at Waikato university. Would be really cool! :-)
Oh. OK. Thanks. Cheers, Peter
-- Peter Reutemann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, NZ
http://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ Ph. +64 (7) 858-5174
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On Thu, 2008-02-28 at 21:12 +1300, Peter Reutemann wrote:
I went along when he was here last, and I would very much like to hear him speak again. Many things have happened since then and it would be interesting to hear his view on some of these issues.
Just a quick update: Richard Stallman has been now officially invited by Prof Ian Witten. Since Ian will be in Europe during August, Prof Mark Apperley will be the host (he was also the host back in 1999).
Let's hope that he'll have a chance to give a talk here at Waikato university. Would be really cool! :-)
I wonder if The Honourable David Cunliffe could be persuaded to attend. Cheers David
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. /Roger Sinel On Thu, 2008-02-28 at 09:11 +1300, Daniel Lawson wrote:
On 28/02/2008, at 4:31 AM, rsinel(a)bredband.net wrote:
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.
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... :)
-- Mvh Roger Sinel roger.sinel(a)nordickiwi.com www.nordickiwi.com + gpg key -- http://www.nordickiwi.com/rsinel.asc + fingerprint -- F0EF 2C17 99CA DC06 132A 967F B642 D0BA 6503 87C7
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