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November 2020

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Dr. Richard Stallman's online talk on Friday November 27 (today!) at 3:30pm EST
by Computer Science Club 27 Nov '20

27 Nov '20

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

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Join CSC and WiCS for Alt-Tab on Nov 19 (today!) at 5 PM ET
by Computer Science Club 19 Nov '20

19 Nov '20

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

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