Richard Stallman's Talk 25 Hours Away, Aula Magna Palazzo del Rettorato (CU001), Sapienza Università di Roma (Piazzale Aldo Moro, 5)
Another astounding venue?
Or this one:
We hope that Dr. Stallman's talk will be well attended and well received. We see early indications that it will be.
The talk is 25 hours away and we see some QR code for it. It's not unprecedented, nor is it mandatory. It's also advertised in Facebook and Instagram (i.e. more Facebook) for the sake of attracting more people. Those people, in turn, can lean why not to use Facebook.
"Ryanair now requires every passenger to have a so-called "smart" phone. I suspect that it requires every passenger to run a nonfree Ryanair app, too, meaning that a snoop-phone running some non-Google Android variant won't work," Stallman said in a seemingly newly-updated page ("Don't fly Ryanair if you can help it"). "This is a very dangerous form of pressure, and other airlines will be tempted to imitate it. Please, even if you do carry a snoop-phone, boycott the airlines that exclude the people who don't have one."
So we found it a bit funny they promote QR code/s for his talk, although one can assume those are not obligatory. To reserve a place one might need to use Google Docs, which is proprietary and typically only works "correctly" with proprietary Web browsers.
Centre of the map:
And code for the "snoop-phone", as Stallman calls it.
Here's the Web page (not webapp) from the University. It's in Italian.
Hopefully he can fill up that auditorium, with some people standing along the walls as well (as happened in Milan 4.5 months ago).
He does not speak to random people but to educated people typically in the area of technology, so it is a well-targeted talk. Many will be professors/educators, not students. █
"The paradigm of competition is a race: by rewarding the winner, we encourage everyone to run faster. When capitalism really works this way, it does a good job; but its defenders are wrong in assuming it always works this way." -Richard Stallman
"Also, because schools must teach the spirit of goodwill, the habit of helping others around you, every class should have this rule: students, if you bring software to class you may not keep it for yourself." -Richard Stallman