[FOSS4G-UK] [External] Re: A star speaker on the commons

[Barry Rowlingson]

I also doubt we could find a conferencing platform open enough for RMS to
consent to install on his computer.

Despite Stallman's outstanding contributions to the open source culture in
the past, I think its time to move on.

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Barry

On Thu, Apr 6, 2023 at 4:48 PM Steven Feldman <shfeldman at gmail.com> wrote:

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> 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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