Video download link | md5sum f800b82b813194239002b8833d12bee1 The First RMS 2022 Talk, With Commentary Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 4.0



Summary: A couple of hours ago the talk/speech of Richard Stallman had ended (the Q&A sessions as well) and we uploaded a video that contains the whole talk (sans the Q&A) with IRC commentary

Richard Stallman's livestream was mentioned here an hour ahead of time and I've decided to record a video in which we can all comment on his talk and show the reactions in IRC, initially in #techrights and then in #fsf too (different networks, different channels). As many people had expected upfront, #fsf was soon infested with Internet trolls, which sort of distracted from on-topic participants.

The resultant video, which is very raw, is presented above. I intentionally toggled off noise cancellation, having tested (a priori) what would happen if voices overlapped. In this case, the outcome is a bit better. As noise cancellation works OK only if one person speaks....

Due to technical issues (probably bandwidth constraints, not software limitations), Dr. Stallman turned off the camera after a little while. He took questions through BigBlueButton (BBB) and possibly used Mumble for secure communication (we use that too; it works very well). The designated text chat, a discussion over IRC, was unfortunately trolled rather badly. If you zoom in when watching the video above (or set the video to full-screen mode), you can see pertinent examples of that. Maybe such abuse was simply inevitable. ⬆