The call for paper is closed now, however, if you are still planning to this
conference as we discussed before, you can send your talk proposal to
asia-summit-list gnome org, include:
Can we please put my speech on the first day, Aug 14?
1. Speech title
Free Software and Your Freedom
2. Abstract
The Free Software Movement campaigns for computer users' freedom
to cooperate and control their own computing. The Free Software
Movement developed the GNU operating system, typically used together
with the kernel Linux, specifically to make these freedoms possible.
3. bio
Richard Stallman launched the development of the GNU operating system
(see
www.gnu.org) in 1984. GNU is free software: everyone has the
freedom to copy it and redistribute it, as well as to make changes
either large or small. The GNU/Linux system, basically the GNU
operating system with Linux added, is used on tens of millions of
computers today. Stallman has received the ACM Grace Hopper Award, a
MacArthur Foundation fellowship, the Electronic Frontier Foundation's
Pioneer Award, and the the Takeda Award for Social/Economic
Betterment, as well as several honorary doctorates.
My usual speech about the Free Software Movement and GNU takes a
little over 1.5 hours in English, plus time for questions, photos,
distribution of FSF things, and so on. It is best to allow plenty of
time for questions, because people usually want to ask a lot of
questions. In total, it is best to allow 2.5 hours.
If you give me less time, I will use the time available,
but important points will be omitted.
