Sheffield Linux Users Group (ShefLUG) 6.15 pm Tuesday 24th October 2000 ShefLUG Venue: Auditorium Students Union Building University of Sheffield Westen Bank Sheffield UK for location of Sheffield University & Campus Map see http://www.streetmap.co.uk You need to dial in the postcode which is S10 2TG You can also send mail to me to request a map and for information about trams and buses phone 01709 515151. Other than that you can phone me personally at 07973 682181. Tickets will be available from the Students Union office before the event. You can phone 0114 222 8777 to get hold of those or you can go to the box office at the University of Sheffield, Union of Students, Box Office, Western Bank, Sheffield S10 2TG. Tickets should be available by the the 18th of October. You can also buy them on the door at a cost of £3 each. The topic of the meeting will be a talk by Richard Stallman his talk will be about the history of GNU/Linux and the Free Software Movement. After the talk there will be a question and answer session at which time you are invited to join in. Mr Stallman is famous for founding the Free Software Foundation in 1984. Recently IBM handed over their copyrights of the S/390 Linux platform to the Free Software Foundation. The GNU project is also well known for the many other things that are in progress and the GNOME project is a good example. We do hope that you are able to attend the lecture. We need to cover the costs of hiring a large 400 seater lecture theatre and other costs which may not be evident. Those of you who do work in Universities may wish to copy this over to any internal lists that you have. For related information have a look at....... http://www.fsf.org http://www.gnu.org http://www.stallman.org http://www.sheflug.co.uk/meeting.html Thank you Richard Sheffield Linux User's Group http://www.sheflug.co.uk GNU the choice of a complete generation.