Re: Your availability to COSCUP/GNOME.Asia 2010

[Stormy Peters <stormy gnome org>]

Typically people arrange his lodging for him. I don't think that means we have to. (I do think it is a nice touch for keynote speakers. I have always appreciated it when someone else figures out which hotel in a foreign country and books it. But if we aren't paying for it, we probably shouldn't book it.)

I would send someone to get him before his talk. He's some what famous for showing up a bit late.

Stormy

On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 10:27 PM, Emily Chen <emilychen522 gmail com> wrote:

Thanks for the reminder, stormy.

One question, he is asking lodging place now. I think we can help to arrange the place, However, I am wondering what if he is not satisfied with the lodging place or do we need to arrange special local guide for him?

can we treat him just as other speakers, provide the $400 is enough.  Or provide the lodging place the same as other speakers(I am thinking about the lodging place if we have extra travel budget, still haven't decided )?

Thanks,

-Emily

2010/6/30 Stormy Peters <stormy gnome org>

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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