Visit of Richard Stallman in Latvia


July 22, 2004

Āzenes 16 – 105, Riga. Construction faculty of Rigas Technical University


10:00 – 11:00

Richard Stallman (FSF): “Why software patents are bad”

11:00 – 11:30

Questions and answers, discussion

11:40 – 12:05

Marco Schulze (FFII): “Where things stand in Brussels, and what FFII is doing centrally”

12:00 – 12:30

Christian Engström (FFII Sweden): “What can be done on a national level”

12:30 – 13:00

Questions and answers, discussion


Richard Stallman is an author of many free programs widely used worldwide, including in the infrastructure of Latvian companies and government – among others, he wrote the famous emacs text editor, GNU tools collected in shellutils, textutils, findutils, that are widely used in free operating systems such as GNU/Linux; R. Stallman is also a principal author of such sophisticated systems as the gcc GNU compiler collection and the gdb debugger. R. Stallman is a founder of Free Software Foundation and the GNU Project. He authored GNU General Public Licence, GPL, that sets a standard of freedom in the software world. Mr. Stallman's achievements were acknowledged by numerous awards, he is an honorary doctor of many European and American universities. More on his biography can be found in http://www.stallman.org


Marco Schulze – is a programmer from Germany (NightLabs company, http://www.nightlabs.de), who is engaged in the design of the turn-key networked systems and custom networking solutions.


Christian Engström – is a programmer and a businessman from Sweden. He worked in a small company for 20 years, and currently is a private consultant.

Organizers:

FSF

FFII

FFII Sweden

LAKA

http://www.fsf.org/

http://www.ffii.org/

http://www.ffii.se/

http://www.laka.lv/