Hello programs,
Dr. Richard M. Stallman (rms) will be delivering a live presentation
today (Friday, November 27, 2020) at 3:30pm, on "Why operating systems
and other software should be free". You can watch the livestream using
Firefox- or Chromium-based browsers from the following page, at 3:30pm:
https://live.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/2020-11-27-rms.html
Dr. Stallman led the development of the GNU operating system, founded
the Free Software Foundation, and launched the free software movement.
Audience members can ask questions via the #csc IRC channel on the
freenode IRC network, and I will pass them on to rms. CSC members can
easily access IRC and join #csc by logging into the CSC-hosted instance
of The Lounge web IRC client at https://chat.csclub.uwaterloo.ca using
their CSC credentials. Non-CSC members may use other The Lounge
instances available to the public, such as https://chat.emacsconf.org.
Some useful resources related to topics from rms's talk:
- The GNU Operating System: https://www.gnu.org/gnu/gnu.html
- What is free software? https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html
- Why Software Should Be Free:
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/shouldbefree.html
- Why Open Source misses the point of Free Software:
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point.html
rms's presentation will be delivered and streamed using only free/libre
software. Note that Apple devices may not be able to play the stream,
as they may still not be supporting the free patent-unencumbered WebM
format to this day. On such devices, you may be able to watch the talk
using the VLC player. A recording of the presentation will be made
available afterwards for folks who are not able to watch the talk live.
Yours in freedom,
Amin Bandali
Systems Committee
Computer Science Club of the University of Waterloo
Hello all,
Come join the UW Computer Science Club (CSC) and Women in Computer
Science (WiCS) on Thursday, November 19th (today) from 5-7PM EST for
Alt-Tab!
Alt-Tab is a lightning tech talk series presented by students and
alumni. This term's Alt-Tab event will comprise of 4 different speakers
who will be talking about topics including Ethereum NFT gaming, proof
assistants and vanity Tor URLS. There will also be a raffle to win $20
gift cards!
This event will be hosted on Zoom, at
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85836317055
--
Neil Parikh
Treasurer, UWaterloo CSC