Richard Stallman's English Talk in Italy Less Than 24 Hours Away (Torino) and Then Another Talk in Italy Scheduled (University of Bozen-Bolzano)
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Tomorrow at 5PM (CET) RMS will talk at the Poliecnico di Torino, more specifically Sala Ciminiera of the Department of Computer Engineering. "The nearest street entrance to reach Sala Ciminiera is at *corso Castelfidardo 34/D*: Sala Ciminiera is on the 5th floor," he said. There will be a livestream.
12 days later he gives another talk in English, this time in the University of Bozen-Bolzano (Italy).
The talk will be in English and cover GNU/Linux among other topics. For those wishing to tune in or attend there's this new page from Linux User Group Bolzano-Bozen-Bulsan:
In a nutshell:
Abstract: There are many threats to freedom in the digital society. They include nonfree software, massive surveillance, and censorship. Nonfree programs are often designed to restrict users, control users or manipulate users. The War on Sharing aims to stop users from sharing copies of published works. Computers for voting make election results untrustworthy. Other threats come from use of web services, implemented by companies that can impose any conditions whatsoever. Finally, most internet activities (aside from those which existed before 2000) are precarious, dependent on permission from one company. All of these threats originate more or less in the use of nonfree software. That is why free software is the first battle in the liberation of the digital society.
This will be his 7th or 8th talk that we know about this year. He's active and he travels a lot in spite of his medical condition. █