Richard Stallman conference. Free software, free and solidarity society

Richard Stallman will be in Marseilles on February 22 for a conference entitled “Free software, free and solidarity society”.

This event is co-organized by Assodev-Marsnet and the Centre for open electronic publishing, in partnership with the Alcazar Library and the cerLL.  The conference will be held in the St. Charles campus of Aix-Marseille Université main auditorium on Wednesday, February 22, 2012 from 19:00 to 21:30.

Admission is free. Pre-registration is recommended.

Richard Stallman
Richard Stallman is a U.S. programmer born in 1953 who launched the free software movement in 1983 and started the development of the GNU operating system
in 1984. The GNU/Linux system, basically the GNU operating system with Linux added, is used on tens of millions of computers today. Stallman is also the creator of the GNU General Public License (GPL). For over twenty years, Stallman has promoted free software. More recently, through the Free Software Foundation, he led several campaigns against software patents, DRM and ACTA, to name but a few.

• Richard Stallman’s website : http://stallman.org
• The Free Software Foundation: http://www.fsf.org
• The GNU project: http://www.gnu.org/home.fr.html

Free software and its communities

• AFUL. French association of free software users: http://aful.org
•  The Plume project. Promoting free software in French higher education and research: https://www.projet-plume.org
• Skip to Gnu/Linux: http://www.passeralinux.fr
• Framasoft. Collaborative network of websites using free software: http://www.framasoft.net
• APRIL. Promotion and defense of free software: http://www.april.org
• Quadrature du Net. Organization defending the rights and freedom of citizens on the Internet. : http://www.laquadrature.net/fr

Additional information: http://www.marsnet.org/spip.php?article687
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