For anyone who may not be able to front at the LIANZA conf on Monday.. or pehaps have missed him chatting to Kim Hill recently.

Title: A Free Digital Society
Speaker: Richard Stallman
Time and place: 17:00 – 19:00, Tuesday, 13 October 2009, Room A1, Arts Lecture Block

Abstract:
To make a digital society worthy of being included in, we must overcome six menaces to freedom: surveillance, censorship, restricted data formats, proprietary software, software as a service, and the War on Sharing.

Bio: Richard Stallman
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.