Free Software pioneer Richard Stallman to lecture at SJCET

August 21, 2010 05:04 pm | Updated 06:48 pm IST - PALA (KOTTAYAM):

Software freedom activist and founder of the GNU Project Richard Matthew Stallman will deliver a lecture on 'Free software and your Freedom' at the St. Joseph's College of Engineering and Technology (SJCET), Pala on 9 September 2010.

Mr. Stallman, who is also the founder of the Free Software Foundation, will inaugurate SJCET's Free Software Users Group 'Swathanthra'.

The programme is scheduled to commence at 10:30 a.m. Technical sessions on free software by experts and exhibitions on the Free Software Movement are also arranged. Online registration for the event has begun.

Details are available on the website www.swathanthra.in. Registration to the event can be done online.

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