Be very careful with that. His keynote at GCDS caused us a lot of trouble.
On Jun 29, 2010 10:10 PM, "Emily Chen" <emilychen522 gmail com> wrote:
> The longest time slot is 1 hour. We will inform him.
>
> BTW, The COSCUP team has plan B (has RMS) which will arrange his talk as
> keynote that all people will attend.
>
> -Emily
>
> 2010/6/30 Stormy Peters <stormy gnome org>
>
>> [Asia Summit list only]
>>
>> I do not think we should give him more than an hour. That is too long to
>> listen to one speaker. Especially if people aren't native English speakers.
>>
>> Stormy
>>
>> On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 2:10 PM, Richard Stallman <rms gnu org> wrote:
>>
>>> 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.
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