Please see below - hopefully someone will pick this up from the committee.

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Ian McDonald iam4@cs.waikato.ac.nz Date: Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 6:21 AM Subject: [Fwd: Stallman visiting Wellington] To: ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz

---------------------------- Original Message ---------------------------- Subject: Stallman visiting Wellington From: "Steve Reeves" stever@cs.waikato.ac.nz Date: Wed, July 9, 2008 12:29 pm To: cs-lecturers@cs.waikato.ac.nz cs-grads@cs.waikato.ac.nz --------------------------------------------------------------------------

I wonder if he's got time to come up here again?

Would someone in WLUG be able to get something arranged?

Steve

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From: Green Party greenparty@greens.org.nz Date: 9 July 2008 12:10:46 GMT+12:00 To: "dd@lists.greens.org.nz" dd@lists.greens.org.nz, IT Commitee

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-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Richard Stallman visiting Wellington Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2008 12:09:24 +1200 From: Peter Lambrechtsen plambrechtsen@gmail.com To: greenparty@greens.org.nz CC: don@catalyst.net.nz

Hello

As per our conversation, Richard Stallman who is the founder of GNU (www.gnu.org) and the GPL License, and is the authority on Free Software and is a passionate speaker on such topics. He will be in Wellington from the 13th until the 17th of August.

A brief bio of Richard Stallman:

Richard Stallman launched the development of the GNU operating system (see www.gnu.org) in 1984. GNU is free software: everyone has the freedom to copy it and redistribute it, as well as to make changes either large or small. The GNU/Linux system, basically the GNU operating system with Linux added, is used on tens of millions of computers today. Stallman has received the ACM Grace Hopper Award, a MacArthur Foundation fellowship, the Electronic Frontier Foundation's Pioneer award, and the the Takeda Award for Social/Economic Betterment, as well as several honorary doctorates.

I know Nandor Tanczos had an interest about Linux and Free Software and was interested in contacting him directly.

I will be organising his itinerary and main point of contact during his visit to Wellington and was interested in if the Greens were interested in a meeting / presentation or some media event with him.

Please either e-mail me back, or call me on 04 470 5540 or 0272 905 735 and we can talk further.

Kind regards.

Peter Lambrechtsen

-- Michael Pringle National Administrator Green Party PO Box 11 652 Wellington Phone 04 801 5102 Fax 04 801 5104 Mobile 021 119 6714 greenparty@greens.org.nz www.greens.org.nz

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