[Linux-aus] Richard Stallmans Australian Speaking schedule

[Russell Stuart]

Generating noise has had the intended effect and brought forth more
information.  Jack Burton posted a very complete summary of Richard's
itinerary to the SAGE-AU, which is reproduced below.

There is one major addition to the list I posted before: Richard is
doing a talk in Darwin.  It now appears on the calendar:

https://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=24ildpo7m4cn2mi9kqmnp4m1b0@group.calendar.google.com

The agenda view is the most useful.  The button at top right.

On Mon, 2010-09-06 at 18:55 +1000, Russell Stuart wrote:
> > Do you mind if I re-post this to the Linux Australia list?
> 
> Please do.
> 
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From: Jack Burton <jack at saosce.com.au>
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Subject: Re: [SAGE-AU] Official poster/flyer Richard Stallman at RMIT
Date: Mon, 06 Sep 2010 17:25:04 +0930

On Sun, 2010-09-05 at 15:05 +1000, Russell Stuart wrote:
> He looks to be doing a road trip around Australia, hosted primarily by
> the ACS.  If you dig a bit (they don't make it easy) you can get a bit
> of a picture of his schedule by piecing the calendars of the various
> ACS chapters web sites:

That's correct. ACS is hosting the Australian leg of RMS' current world
tour (he's touring India right now, and will go on to Indonesia &
Europe after he's visited Australia).

The ACS events Richard will be speaking at on his tour include two
conferences and an "Education Across the Nation" (EdXN) circuit (ACS
run four of these each year; each circuit involves speeches in 8 to 10
cities around Australia). NICTA have made a generous contribution to
the tour and are co-hosting the EdXN events in Melbourne, Brisbane,
Canberra & Sydney as a part of the NICTA "Big Picture Seminar" (BPS)
series. UTas & UWoll have also contributed to the tour -- UTas will be
co-hosting the Hobart EdXN; and an additional speech will be held at
UWoll, earlier on the day of the Wollongong EdXN.

While he's in Australia, Richard will be speaking at the following:

15 Sep Melbourne Uni - 5:30pm for 6pm - ACS EdXN / NICTA BPS
16 Sep RMIT (Melbourne) - 12:30pm - details elsewhere on the list
16 Sep Ballarat - evening - details still tbc
17 Sep Tenison Woods College, Mt Gambier - 6:30 for 7pm - ACS EdXN
19 Sep BCEC, Brisbane - 9:30am to 12:30pm - WCC2010 Masterclass
19 Sep BCEC, Brisbane - 2pm to 5pm - WCC2010 Masterclass
21 Sep BCEC, Brisbane - Keynote speech at WCC2010
23 Sep BCEC, Brisbane - 5:30pm for 6pm - ACS EdXN / NICTA BPS
30 Sep UTas (Hobart) - 5:30pm for 6pm - ACS EdXN / UTas
06 Oct ANU - 4:30pm for 5pm - ACS EdXN / NICTA BPS
11 Oct UNSW (Sydney) - 5:30pm for 6pm - ACS EdXN / NICTA BPS
12 Oct UWollongong - 12noon - UWoll speech
12 Oct Wollongong City Tennis Club - 5:45pm for 6pm - ACS EdXN
14 Oct Darwin Central Hotel - 5pm for 5:15pm - ACS EdXN
19 Oct Hyatt Regency, Perth - 5:30pm - ACS EdXN
21 Oct AFC, Adelaide - Keynote speech at ACS SA Branch Conference
21 Oct AFC, Adelaide - 5:30pm for 6pm - ACS EdXN

At all the EdXN events, RMS will be speaking on "Free software in ethics
and in practice". His keynote speech at WCC2010 will be on "A Just
digital society". His keynote speech at ACSSA2010 will be on "Copyright
vs community in the age of computer networks", as will his speeches at
UWoll & RMIT. His two masterclasses at WCC2010 will be on
"Intermediate/advanced Emacs editing" (morning) and "Emacs Lisp
programming" (afternoon).

The EdXN events are all free to attend, but registration is essential,
as RMS tends to attract big crowds and all venues have limits on how
many people they can allow in, for safety's sake. The speeches at UWoll
& RMIT (and I presume Ballarat too) are also free to attend.

The two conferences and the two workshops are paid events, obviously.
WCC2010 is a massive conference, lasting 4 days (plus the optional
workshop/masterclass days). One & two day passes are also available
at reduced cost. ACSSA2010 is a one-day conference (with optional
workshops the following day) and priced very reasonably.

There is a page on the ACS website summarising the tour, at:
http://www.acs.org.au/rmstour/

The Darwin & Adelaide EdXN events (and the second workshop) aren't on
that page yet, but will be soon. All the other ACS events are listed on
that page, together with the UWoll speech.

Full conference programmes for WCC2010 & ACSSA2010 are available at
http://www.wcc2010.org/content/program and
http://sa.acs.org.au/conf2010/node/4  respectively. 

Regards,


Jack Burton
<jack at saosce.com.au>