Fwd: FW: Fwd: [Fwd: Stallman visiting Wellington]

-----Original Message----- From: Roger Sinel [mailto:roger.sinel(a)nordickiwi.com] Sent: Thursday, 10 July 2008 6:54 a.m. To: Waikato Linux Users Group Subject: Re: [wlug] Fwd: [Fwd: Stallman visiting Wellington] Richard Stallman has already offered to come to Waikato University during his August visit to NZ and do a talk, I talked to him in the 26th of febuary this year in Stockholm Sweden about it. http://nordickiwi.no-ip.com/blog/?p=109 I'd like to know if the arrangements where ever finalized? I posted this offer from Richard on this list. Does anyone know if Richard Stallman will actually talk in Hamilton? /Roger -----Original Message----- From: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald(a)jandi.co.nz> Reply-To: Waikato Linux Users Group <wlug(a)list.waikato.ac.nz> To: Waikato Linux Users Group <wlug(a)list.waikato.ac.nz> Subject: [wlug] Fwd: [Fwd: Stallman visiting Wellington] Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2008 06:23:27 +1200 Please see below - hopefully someone will pick this up from the committee. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Ian McDonald <iam4(a)cs.waikato.ac.nz> Date: Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 6:21 AM Subject: [Fwd: Stallman visiting Wellington] To: ian.mcdonald(a)jandi.co.nz ---------------------------- Original Message ---------------------------- Subject: Stallman visiting Wellington From: "Steve Reeves" <stever(a)cs.waikato.ac.nz> Date: Wed, July 9, 2008 12:29 pm To: cs-lecturers(a)cs.waikato.ac.nz cs-grads(a)cs.waikato.ac.nz -------------------------------------------------------------------------- I wonder if he's got time to come up here again? Would someone in WLUG be able to get something arranged? Steve Begin forwarded message:
From: Green Party <greenparty(a)greens.org.nz> Date: 9 July 2008 12:10:46 GMT+12:00 To: "dd(a)lists.greens.org.nz" <dd(a)lists.greens.org.nz>, IT Commitee <IT(a)lists.greens.org.nz
, nandor(a)greens.org.nz Subject: [IT] [Fwd: Richard Stallman visiting Wellington] Reply-To: greenparty(a)greens.org.nz, Information Technology <it(a)lists.greens.org.nz
-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Richard Stallman visiting Wellington Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2008 12:09:24 +1200 From: Peter Lambrechtsen <plambrechtsen(a)gmail.com> To: greenparty(a)greens.org.nz CC: don(a)catalyst.net.nz
Hello
As per our conversation, Richard Stallman who is the founder of GNU (www.gnu.org) and the GPL License, and is the authority on Free Software and is a passionate speaker on such topics. He will be in Wellington from the 13th until the 17th of August.
A brief bio of Richard Stallman:
Richard Stallman launched 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.
I know Nandor Tanczos had an interest about Linux and Free Software and was interested in contacting him directly.
I will be organising his itinerary and main point of contact during his visit to Wellington and was interested in if the Greens were interested in a meeting / presentation or some media event with him.
Please either e-mail me back, or call me on 04 470 5540 or 0272 905 735 and we can talk further.
Kind regards.
Peter Lambrechtsen
-- Michael Pringle National Administrator Green Party PO Box 11 652 Wellington Phone 04 801 5102 Fax 04 801 5104 Mobile 021 119 6714 greenparty(a)greens.org.nz www.greens.org.nz
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Richard Stallman has already offered to come to Waikato University during his August visit to NZ and do a talk, I talked to him in the 26th of febuary this year in Stockholm Sweden about it. http://nordickiwi.no-ip.com/blog/?p=109
I'd like to know if the arrangements where ever finalized? I posted this offer from Richard on this list.
Does anyone know if Richard Stallman will actually talk in Hamilton?
I'm currently trying to ascertain that and will post as soon as I know more. Cheers, Peter -- Peter Reutemann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, NZ http://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ Ph. +64 (7) 858-5174

Thanks Peter. As I've mentioned in another post, I am more than willing to offer accommodation for RMS if it's required. James. On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 9:36 AM, Peter Reutemann <fracpete(a)waikato.ac.nz> wrote:
Richard Stallman has already offered to come to Waikato University during his August visit to NZ and do a talk, I talked to him in the 26th of febuary this year in Stockholm Sweden about it. http://nordickiwi.no-ip.com/blog/?p=109
I'd like to know if the arrangements where ever finalized? I posted this offer from Richard on this list.
Does anyone know if Richard Stallman will actually talk in Hamilton?
I'm currently trying to ascertain that and will post as soon as I know more.
Cheers, Peter -- Peter Reutemann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, NZ http://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/<http://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/%7Efracpete/>Ph. +64 (7) 858-5174 _______________________________________________ wlug mailing list | wlug(a)list.waikato.ac.nz Unsubscribe: http://list.waikato.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/wlug
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Come on everybody on the committee. The opportunity to have Richard Stallman at this time has come up at least TWICE now. You guys should be falling over yourselves to make it happen. On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 9:32 AM, Chris O'Halloran <cmoman(a)gmail.com> wrote:
-----Original Message----- From: Roger Sinel [mailto:roger.sinel(a)nordickiwi.com] Sent: Thursday, 10 July 2008 6:54 a.m. To: Waikato Linux Users Group Subject: Re: [wlug] Fwd: [Fwd: Stallman visiting Wellington]
Richard Stallman has already offered to come to Waikato University during his August visit to NZ and do a talk, I talked to him in the 26th of febuary this year in Stockholm Sweden about it. http://nordickiwi.no-ip.com/blog/?p=109
I'd like to know if the arrangements where ever finalized? I posted this offer from Richard on this list.
Does anyone know if Richard Stallman will actually talk in Hamilton?
/Roger
-----Original Message----- From: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald(a)jandi.co.nz> Reply-To: Waikato Linux Users Group <wlug(a)list.waikato.ac.nz> To: Waikato Linux Users Group <wlug(a)list.waikato.ac.nz> Subject: [wlug] Fwd: [Fwd: Stallman visiting Wellington] Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2008 06:23:27 +1200
Please see below - hopefully someone will pick this up from the committee.
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Ian McDonald <iam4(a)cs.waikato.ac.nz> Date: Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 6:21 AM Subject: [Fwd: Stallman visiting Wellington] To: ian.mcdonald(a)jandi.co.nz
---------------------------- Original Message ---------------------------- Subject: Stallman visiting Wellington From: "Steve Reeves" <stever(a)cs.waikato.ac.nz> Date: Wed, July 9, 2008 12:29 pm To: cs-lecturers(a)cs.waikato.ac.nz cs-grads(a)cs.waikato.ac.nz --------------------------------------------------------------------------
I wonder if he's got time to come up here again?
Would someone in WLUG be able to get something arranged?
Steve
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From: Green Party <greenparty(a)greens.org.nz> Date: 9 July 2008 12:10:46 GMT+12:00 To: "dd(a)lists.greens.org.nz" <dd(a)lists.greens.org.nz>, IT Commitee <IT(a)lists.greens.org.nz
, nandor(a)greens.org.nz Subject: [IT] [Fwd: Richard Stallman visiting Wellington] Reply-To: greenparty(a)greens.org.nz, Information Technology <it(a)lists.greens.org.nz
-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Richard Stallman visiting Wellington Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2008 12:09:24 +1200 From: Peter Lambrechtsen <plambrechtsen(a)gmail.com> To: greenparty(a)greens.org.nz CC: don(a)catalyst.net.nz
Hello
As per our conversation, Richard Stallman who is the founder of GNU (www.gnu.org) and the GPL License, and is the authority on Free Software and is a passionate speaker on such topics. He will be in Wellington from the 13th until the 17th of August.
A brief bio of Richard Stallman:
Richard Stallman launched 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.
I know Nandor Tanczos had an interest about Linux and Free Software and was interested in contacting him directly.
I will be organising his itinerary and main point of contact during his visit to Wellington and was interested in if the Greens were interested in a meeting / presentation or some media event with him.
Please either e-mail me back, or call me on 04 470 5540 or 0272 905 735 and we can talk further.
Kind regards.
Peter Lambrechtsen
-- Michael Pringle National Administrator Green Party PO Box 11 652 Wellington Phone 04 801 5102 Fax 04 801 5104 Mobile 021 119 6714 greenparty(a)greens.org.nz www.greens.org.nz
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Come on everybody on the committee. The opportunity to have Richard Stallman at this time has come up at least TWICE now. You guys should be falling over yourselves to make it happen.
I've contacted Prof Ian Witten, who invited Richard Stallman some time ago, and asked him about an update on the situation (whether the talk is still gonna go ahead). Since he's currently in Europe, his response might take a while... As soon as I get a reply, I'll post again. 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 Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 10:50:12AM +1200, Ian McDonald wrote:
Come on everybody on the committee. The opportunity to have Richard Stallman at this time has come up at least TWICE now. You guys should be falling over yourselves to make it happen.
If you care about this stuff, you should subscribe to the wlug-committee list. They have been following this up on that list for several days now already. John
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Chris O'Halloran
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