[FOSS4G-UK] A star speaker on the commons

[Steven Feldman]

You can read about Stallman here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Stallman, you might be concerned about some of the controversies listed.

In the past he used to charge fees that we could not consider to speak at events eg FOSS4G in Boston. Personally I did not enjoy his talk 

I would advise not wasting time on this
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> On 6 Apr 2023, at 16:31, Nick Bearman <nick at geospatialtrainingsolutions.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> Hi Ramanan,
> 
> Thanks very much for your suggestion. I haven't heard of Richard Stallman - I will have a bit of a look. Could you tell us a little more about him at our next meeting?
> 
> We used Jitsi and YouTube to share the keynote talks previously.
> 
> Best wishes,
> Nick.
> 
> On 3/28/23 12:21, Ramanan Selvaratnam wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> Since the digital and land commons can be seen to intersect on GIS software, I feel it makes sense to call for a renowned expert in both fields. This could aim to attract attention of GIS software users and non users.
>> Having suggested the above, I'll pitch in a suggestion in Richard Stallman. There may be others too - any suggestions?
>> If Online speakers can be sorted out - I suspect free software systems may have to be pre-requisite .. but I have no reason to discount such a speaker turning up in person or already being present amongst us.
>> 
>> I thought of this while listening to some negatives on GPL by QGIS developer at last year's conference. Commons [the land variety] being under threat in the UK right now with recent media attention over Dartmoor access [being defined by a "GIS enabled map" as it's put out in media] is another reason
>> 
>> Best wishes,
>> 
>> Ramanan
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