Re: [Australia-public-discuss] Help collect petition signatures at Stallman's speeches

[Lubos Rendek]

> Can you help by collecting signatures at a speech near you?

I would be able to help for:
11 Oct UNSW (Sydney) - 5:30pm for 6pm - ACS EdXN / NICTA BPS

Anyone else here to give a hand for Sydney?

Lubos

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On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 6:26 PM, Ben Sturmfels <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi Folks,
> We've recently collected 1000 signatures on a letter to Senator Kim Carr
> against software patents. The next step is to prepare a formal petition
> to the House or Representatives (I'm writing this at the moment).
>
> Richard Stallman has encouraged us to collect petition signatures at the
> speeches in his upcoming Australian tour (dates below).
>
> Can you help by collecting signatures at a speech near you?
>
> This involves:
>  - printing 50 pages of patent handouts and chopping them in half
>  - printing 20 page petition form
>  - arriving early to the speech to distribute the patent handouts
>  - collecting signatures on petition (bring pens and arrange a table)
>  - posting the original forms back to me
>
> I'm able to organise for the Melbourne events, though any helpers would
> be very welcome.
>
> Your help will make a huge difference to eliminating software patents!
>
> Ben
>
>
>
> Richard Stallman's Australian Tour
> -----------------------------------
> The ACS events Richard will be speaking at on his tour include two
> conferences and an "Education Across the Nation" (EdXN) circuit (ACS
> run four of these each year; each circuit involves speeches in 8 to 10
> cities around Australia). NICTA have made a generous contribution to
> the tour and are co-hosting the EdXN events in Melbourne, Brisbane,
> Canberra & Sydney as a part of the NICTA "Big Picture Seminar" (BPS)
> series. UTas & UWoll have also contributed to the tour -- UTas will be
> co-hosting the Hobart EdXN; and an additional speech will be held at
> UWoll, earlier on the day of the Wollongong EdXN.
>
> While he's in Australia, Richard will be speaking at the following:
>
> 15 Sep Melbourne Uni - 5:30pm for 6pm - ACS EdXN / NICTA BPS
> 16 Sep RMIT (Melbourne) - 12:30pm - details elsewhere on the list
> 16 Sep Ballarat - evening - details still tbc
> 17 Sep Tenison Woods College, Mt Gambier - 6:30 for 7pm - ACS EdXN
> 19 Sep BCEC, Brisbane - 9:30am to 12:30pm - WCC2010 Masterclass
> 19 Sep BCEC, Brisbane - 2pm to 5pm - WCC2010 Masterclass
> 21 Sep BCEC, Brisbane - Keynote speech at WCC2010
> 23 Sep BCEC, Brisbane - 5:30pm for 6pm - ACS EdXN / NICTA BPS
> 30 Sep UTas (Hobart) - 5:30pm for 6pm - ACS EdXN / UTas
> 06 Oct ANU - 4:30pm for 5pm - ACS EdXN / NICTA BPS
> 11 Oct UNSW (Sydney) - 5:30pm for 6pm - ACS EdXN / NICTA BPS
> 12 Oct UWollongong - 12noon - UWoll speech
> 12 Oct Wollongong City Tennis Club - 5:45pm for 6pm - ACS EdXN
> 14 Oct Darwin Central Hotel - 5pm for 5:15pm - ACS EdXN
> 19 Oct Hyatt Regency, Perth - 5:30pm - ACS EdXN
> 21 Oct AFC, Adelaide - Keynote speech at ACS SA Branch Conference
> 21 Oct AFC, Adelaide - 5:30pm for 6pm - ACS EdXN
>
> At all the EdXN events, RMS will be speaking on "Free software in ethics
> and in practice". His keynote speech at WCC2010 will be on "A Just
> digital society". His keynote speech at ACSSA2010 will be on "Copyright
> vs community in the age of computer networks", as will his speeches at
> UWoll & RMIT. His two masterclasses at WCC2010 will be on
> "Intermediate/advanced Emacs editing" (morning) and "Emacs Lisp
> programming" (afternoon).
>
> The EdXN events are all free to attend, but registration is essential,
> as RMS tends to attract big crowds and all venues have limits on how
> many people they can allow in, for safety's sake. The speeches at UWoll
> & RMIT (and I presume Ballarat too) are also free to attend.
>
> The two conferences and the two workshops are paid events, obviously.
> WCC2010 is a massive conference, lasting 4 days (plus the optional
> workshop/masterclass days). One & two day passes are also available
> at reduced cost. ACSSA2010 is a one-day conference (with optional
> workshops the following day) and priced very reasonably.
>
> There is a page on the ACS website summarising the tour, at:
> http://www.acs.org.au/rmstour/
>
> The Darwin & Adelaide EdXN events (and the second workshop) aren't on
> that page yet, but will be soon. All the other ACS events are listed on
> that page, together with the UWoll speech.
>
> Full conference programmes for WCC2010 & ACSSA2010 are available at
> http://www.wcc2010.org/content/program and
> http://sa.acs.org.au/conf2010/node/4  respectively.
>
>
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