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Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 16:02:04 +0200
From: Guylhem XXXX <culte@externe.net>To: linux-31 <linux-31@CULTe.org>Subject: RMS au CULTe le 10 juillet
Chers amis et membres du CULTe, je crois que les messages de mise au point
historique de JDD vous ont mis la puce à l'oreille sur un grand évènement
devant bientôt se produire à l'asso.
Il y a quelques mois, notre cher président me téléphona un soir pour me
confier un projet un peu fou : faire venir RMS ou Linus à Toulouse pour
inaugurer notre « salle des machines » et surtout donner un petit discours
aux membres. Je l'ai avertis aussitôt que le projet était irréaliste,
ambitieux, fou, ... mais très très temptant, et lui promis toute mon aide
pour arriver à ce résultat, d'autant plus que j'étais à la recherche d'un
orateur de qualité pour réunir les entreprises et les doctorants en sciences
à l'UPS !!
Nous avons eu des mois de travail « en cachette » au sein d'un petit groupe,
pour ne pas donner de faux espoirs - je m'en excuse par avance, mais je
voulais avant tout annoncer une bonne nouvelle plutôt que de créer un
bataille royale. Malgré tout, quelques fois les discussions furent rudes, et
d'autres fois nous avons eu peur qu'un crosspostage malheureux sur linux-31
ne vienne trahir le projet et le fasse précocément échouer.
Mais aujourd'hui, j'ai toutefois le plaisir de vous annoncer officiellement
que Richard Stallman viendra à Toulouse le Samedi 10 Juillet 2004 à
l'invitation du CULTe et du CDT. N'hésitez pas à diffuser très largement
l'information et à faire venir tout le monde ! Informez la presse, faites
des affiches, etc - toutes les bonnes volontées sont les bienvenues !
Pour sa venue, il faut remercier principalement le travail acharné de Patrick
Labatut et de Jean Daniel Dodin, qui n'ont pas hésité à se retrousser les
manches alors qu'ils croûlaient déjà sous le travail, et considérer le bien
être commun du CULTe au delà des divergences mineures d'opinions. RMS vient
à Toulouse, je crois qu'on peut être fier du résultat et les remercier ! Ce
sera pour beaucoup l'occasion d'entendre son excellent français et de lui
serrer la patte ! (www.stallman.org)
Le plan de la journée est le suivant :
- Samedi 11h : petit déjeuner avec les doctorants de l'UPS et les
entreprises, pour parler du logiciel libre comme débouché professionel
- Samedi 12h : diner privé avec les hommes politiques de Ramonville, pour
les encourager à agir contre les projets de brevets logiciels et autres lois
liberticides
- Samedi 15h : conférence publique au grand amphi de l'UPS avec tous les
membres du CULTe bien sûr
- Samedi 18h : vin d'honneur et pique nique en plein air pour fêter
dignement cette journée du libre !
Il n'est pas sûr que RMS puisse rester avec nous pour soûper, vu
l'extraordinaire charge de travail qu'il a chaque jour à répondre à tous ses
courriels (6h/jour) . Néanmoins, si vous voulez le rencontrer de plus prêt,
nous sommes à la recherche de 2 volontaires pour 1) le conduire de Bordeaux
à Toulouse à 8h45 au matin (une voiture climatisée SVP), et 2) l'héberger le
Samedi soir avant qu'il ne parte pour Barcelone le lendemain (air
conditionné aussi + connection internet SVP cf infra). Comme vous verrez
indiqué dans son mail, il n'est pas très exigeant. Il vient avec son matelas
et un boût de plancher dans un pièce avec une porte qui ferme lui suffit -
entre geeks, on est à la bonne franquette.
--> Patrick, Guylhem, jdd filtrent ces propositions
--> courrier en privé, j'ai peur de 300 mails d'admiratrices de rms ;-))
--> pour le transport mais sans clim j'ai
Pour venir ici, il n'a demandé qu'une chose : que le Club des Utilisateurs de
Linux Toulouse et des Environs s'ouvre un peu au reste du monde du libre, et
complète la dénomination « Linux » ou alors la remplace par un terme plus
générique, invitant les autres logiciels libres (et BSD, Open Office pour
windows, ... ??) - une position que je trouve tout à fait justifiée.
Le Conseil d'Administration a donc voté pour un changement du nom - nous
sommes désormais le Club des Utilisateurs de Libre de Toulouse et des
Environs, et sommes en train de mettre à jour le site WEB [avis personnel -
ce serait peut être l'occasion de changer le logo pingouin par
autre chose?]
--> Commentaire de Patrick LABATUT Président du CULTe
--> Je commente ici le propo de Guylhem en remerciant l'auteur de notre Logo
--> actuel. C'est le seul volontaire qui à prit le temps de crayonner un dessin.
--> et ma foi il est pas mal avec sa faluche ? ?
Le sigle et l'URL ne changeront pas bien sûr ! Nous restons culte.org, et
même si le nom de l'association est un sujet particulièrement propice pour
les trolls (moi même je préfèrais l'ancien nom ANRTT...) , je vous
demanderai gentilment d'éviter de trop troller dessus : la décision à été
prise à l'unanimité, et on pourra grâce à ça désormais associer dans nos
mémoires le nom CULTe soit à la mémorable assemblée générale/foire
d'empoigne qui vit disparaître le nom ANRTT, soit plutôt à la venue de RMS à
Toulouse. Personellement, je l'ai toujours dis, je n'étais pas un grand fan
de « culte ». Mais maintenant, avec une telle histoire, je dois vous avouer
que je trouve le nom pas mal et que j'en suis même un fervent partisant :
Liberté, dans les logiciels et ailleurs - voici une valeur dans laquelle je
me reconnais pleinement !
--> commentaire de Patrick LABATUT
--> une AG traitera le nom de notre association. On ne peut pas se contenter du
--> vote du CA qui valide une acception "libre" courante du L qui faisait une
--> par trop belle au L de GNU/Linux
--> je n'ai pas souhaite une "AG en catastrophe" pour changer de nom
--> on convoque pas 95 personnes sous 15 jours
--> la décision n'a pas été facile pour moi. C'est ma décision.
Je propose de choisir démocratiquement le sujet de la conférence de l'après
midi. Des volontaires pour l'enregistrement ogg/vidéo seraient aussi les
bienvenus.
--> idée PL : la liberté et les libertes menacées ce serait pas mal
--> nombres de mails tournent actuellement sur cette thématique
--> A DEBATTRE
--> Jdd et Philippe Coulonges pourraient faire le secrétariat de ce débat sur le
--> théme de la conférence.
Voici pour informations la partie intéressante du courriel envoyé par RMS -
merci de ne pas lui répondre directement (6h de mail par jour déjà ! Pas
besoin de plus) mais de répondre sur la liste pour centraliser les réponses.
--> suite PL plus bas
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My usual speech about the Free Software Movement and GNU takes between
2 and 2.5 hours. That typically includes about one and a half hours
of my speaking, plus plenty of time for questions, because people
usually want to ask a lot of questions.
I can also do a shorter speech about free software which takes one hour
plus time for questions. Some subtopics will be omitted, and the
picture may not be as clear.
A typical title would be this:
The Free Software Movement and the GNU/Linux Operating System
For the shortened speech, we could use the title
Free Software in Ethics and in Practice
There are other topics I speak about, such as
Copyright vs Community in the Age of Computer Networks
and
The Danger of Software Patents
These topics take just an hour.
I can also possibly speak about some other topic if you suggest one.
Abstract:
For a speech about the Free Software Movement and GNU/Linux, you
can use this abstract:
Richard Stallman will speak about the goals and philosophy of the
Free Software Movement, and the status and history the GNU
operating system, which in combination with the kernel Linux is
now used by tens of millions of users world-wide.
That abstract will work for the one-hour speech as well.
For Copyright vs Community, you can use this abstract:
Copyright developed in the age of the printing press, and was designed
to fit with the system of centralized copying imposed by the printing
press. But the copyright system does not fit well with computer
networks, and only draconian punishments can enforce it.
The global corporations that profit from copyright are lobbying
for draconian punishments, and to increase their copyright powers,
while suppressing public access to technology. But if we
seriously hope to serve the only legitimate purpose of
copyright--to promote progress, for the benefit of the
public--then we must make changes in the other direction.
For Against Software Patents, you can use this abstract:
Richard Stallman will explain how software patents obstruct
software development. Software patents are patents that cover
software ideas. They restrict the development of software, so
that every design decision brings a risk of getting sued. Patents
in other fields restrict factories, but software patents restrict
every computer user. Economic research shows that they even
retard progress.
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The GNU Project constantly struggles against two widespread mistakes
that undermine the effectiveness of our work: calling our work "open
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bad mistake is using the term "intellectual property".
The Free Software Movement and the Open Source Movement are like two
political parties in our community. I founded the Free Software
Movement in 1984 along with the GNU Project; we call our work "free
software" because it is software that respects the users freedom. The
Open Source Movement was founded, in 1998, specifically to reject our
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Of course, some of these names and descriptions may not refer to this
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broader topic in which free software is just a small part, its name
may not refer to free software. That is normal and appropriate. The
point is not to ask you to refer to my work more often than you
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If other speakers in the same session, track, or event want their work
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If you think it is useful to tell people how free software relates to
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people that my work has a relationship with "open source", which they
may have heard of, without implying it is right to describe my work as
"open source."
The other widespread confusion is the idea of a "Linux operating
system". The system in question, the system that Debian and Red Hat
distribute, the system that 20 million people use, is basically the
GNU operating system, with Linux added as the kernel. When people
call the whole system "Linux", they deny us the credit for our work,
and this is not right. (See http://www.gnu.org/gnu/linux-and-gnu.html
for more explanation.)
So please call this combined operating system "GNU/Linux" in all
the publicity, in the titles and description of the session, track,
event, etc., if and when you have reason to refer to it.
For similar reasons, please don't use a penguin as a symbol for my
work, or on the posters or notices for my speech. The penguin stands
for "Linux"; the symbol of GNU is a gnu. So if you want to use a
graphical image to symbolize GNU or my work, please use a gnu.
If you have handled these issues well, nobody who looks at your
material will get the impression that I work on "open source", or that
I support "open source", or that my work is "part of Linux", or that I
participated in the "development of Linux", or that GNU is the name of
"a collection of tools".
As for the term "intellectual property", that spreads confusion and
hostile bias. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html
for explanation. I hope you will decide to reject that expression, as
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At the speech:
Please arrange for someone to hand out and collect our "contact cards".
FSF would like to keep in touch with those who support us, to give
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willing, Dr. Stallman asks that you fill out these contact cards,
which he can take back with him so you can receive updates about
FSF. The FSF will not release this information unless forced to.
In some cases I can bring preprinted contact cards or the FSF can ship
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A week before the talk, please ask me which one it will be.
Changes of plans:
Don't assume that I can still come if you change the date. My
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unable to come. However, I will certainly be flexible if there is no
obstacle. Please consult with me before making any change, and I will
see what I can do.
Scheduling other meetings:
I have agreed to give a speech for you, and if the press wants to talk
with me, I will do that for the sake of the cause. However, if you
would like me to give additional speeches or go to additional
meetings, please ask me first. Please ask me about *each* activity
you would like me to perform.
Many people assume that because I am traveling, I am having a
vacation--that I have no other work to do, so I can spend the whole
day speaking or meeting with people. Some hosts even feel that they
ought to try to fill up my time as a matter of good hospitality.
Alas, it's not that way for me.
The fact is, I have no vacations. (Don't feel sorry for me; idleness
is not something I wish for.) I have to spend 6 to 8 hours *every
day* doing my usual work, which is responding to email about the GNU
Project and the Free Software Movement. Work comes in every day for
me, and if I skip it one day, I have to catch up another day. During
the week I usually fall behind; on weekends I try to catch up.
Traveling takes up time, so I will be extra busy during my visit. And
it might be nice if I could do at least an hour or two of sightseeing
during the visit. So please ask me *in advance* about *each*
additional speech, meeting, or other activity that would take time. I
don't mind being asked, and I may say yes, but I also may say no.
Remember that an additional speech, even if it is just a one-hour
speech, probably takes up two hours or more when you count the travel
time. I may be able to spend some of that time answering my mail, but
it depends on details.
Interviews:
I am glad to give interviews to the press about the GNU system, but
before I do, I want to be sure they will not repeat the two common
mistakes (calling the whole system "Linux" and associating GNU or me
with "open source"). Please explain this, and ask the journalist if
he will agree to call the system "GNU/Linux" in the article, and to
make it clear that our work is "free software" not "open source".
Recommend reading http://www.gnu.org/gnu/linux-and-gnu.html and
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-software-for-freedom.html for
explanations of these issues. If the journalist agrees, then I agree
to an interview. Please have this discussion by email, and save the
messages in both directions.
Sometimes a journalist gives a vaguely affirmative-sounding or
sympathetic response which does not really answer "yes". Examples are
"I will do this as much as I can" and "I understand the distinction."
Such an answer is actually just "maybe", so when you receive one,
please ask for clarification. If he says that the editor has the
final decision, please respond with "Would you please consult the
editor now, and tell us a firm decision?"
Also please ask journalists to *see my speech* before the interview.
My speeches are not technical; they focus on precisely the sort of
philosophical questions that a journalist would probably want to
cover. If the journalist does not attend my speech, he will probably
start by asking me to answer the same questions that I answer in the
speech. That is inefficient.
Please ask each journalist to agree to make a recording of the
interview. Written notes are not reliable, so I have decided not to
do that sort of interview any more.
It is also a good idea for the journalist to read
http://www.gnu.org/gnu/the-gnu-project.html and some of the articles
in http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/ before the interview. Those
articles provide important background. This is especially important
for anyone who cannot come to my speech first.
I am willing to meet with any number of journalists, but if there are
many, I can't meet all of them individually (it would take too much
time). So what I will do is give private interviews to 2 or maybe 3
of them, whichever ones you think are most important, and see the rest
of them as a group (i.e. in a press conference).
You and your associates can judge better than I do which journalists
and which publications I should focus on. So I would like you to
advise me about that. Please try to judge both the importance of the
publication and the merits (intelligence, attention to accuracy,
openness of mind, and absence of bias) of the journalist, if you can.
If you schedule a press conference or group interview, please *plan
the time of my speech to allow the inteview after it*. It may be a
good idea to find out from journalists what times are good for them,
then schedule the conference, then schedule the speech before it.
This way, they will all be able to get the full picture.
Recording my speech:
Please do record the speech if you can. We are always looking
for good recordings of my speeches, both audio and video, to put
on line.
If you are making a recording, please *make sure* to tell me when the
tape needs to be changed. I will pause. Please help me help you make
the recording complete.
Putting my speech on the net:
If you would like to put my speech on the Internet, or distribute it
in digital form, that is ok provided you make sure that a user can
play the recording on a GNU/Linux system using only free software.
For instance, this means RealPlayer format is unacceptable.
OGG/Vorbis format is good for audio, and OpenDIVX is good for video.
If OGG/Theora format is ready, let's use that for video.
This requirement is very important, because if it is not followed,
viewing my speech will require people to do the exact opposite of what
I ask them to do. The medium would contradict the message.
Because this is so important, please make sure everyone who might be
involved in broadcasting the event, or who might be directly or
indirectly involved in planning such a broadcast, knows this
requirement in advance of the event.
Remote speeches by video connection:
I can do a speech remotely through a videoconferencing system. I have
tried it using the internet, but video was so slow and gappy that I
don't want to try that again. However, doing it by ISDN works well.
If I am at home, there is a facility I can use at no charge; you would
have to pay for the ISDN calls and for the facilities at your end. If
I am somewhere else (which is true about half the time), then we will
need to find a videoconferencing facility for me to use; most likely
you will need to pay for that.
Warning about giveways:
You may find companies offering you CD-ROMs, books, fliers or
publicity materials to give away or sell at my speech. Please check
them before you accept them, to make sure that they don't promote the
very thing that we are working to replace.
For instance, the CDs may contain non-free software. Most commercial
CDs of GNU/Linux contain non-free software in addition to the free
software. If it isn't the official Debian GNU/Linux system, it almost
surely contains non-free software, so please don't hand it out or
offer it at my speech. Even if it contains the official Debian
GNU/Linux system, the publisher may have added some non-free software
to that, so it is necessary to check.
Books about use of the GNU/Linux system and about GNU programs are
fine if they themselves are also free. But many of them are non-free
(see http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-doc.html). To see if a book
is free, check the license on the back of the title page. If it uses
the GNU Free Documentation License, or the Open Publication License
version 1 without options A and B, then it is free. If it isn't one
of those, please show me the license and I will tell you if it is a
free license.
If companies send you publicity materials, please check with me before
giving them out at my speech.
(...)
Accommodations:
I am willing to stay in a hotel if that is the way you want to do it.
Please book the hotel for me and arrange to pay the hotel directly.
But if there is anyone who wants to offer a spare couch, or even some
spare floor, I would much rather stay there than in a hotel (provided
I have a door I can close to in order to have some privacy). Staying
with someone is more fun for me than a hotel, and it would also save
you money. Floor space is sufficient because I bring an air mattress
with me.
Note, however, that in a hot and/or humid place I need air
conditioning or I will be unable to sleep. At 72 fahrenheit (22
centigrade) it becomes quite difficult except when the air is dry.
I sometimes like cats, but they are not good for me; I am somewhat
allergic to them. So I need the bed and the room I will usually be
staying in to be clean of cat hair. However, it is no problem if
there is a cat elsewhere in the house--I might even enjoy it. Dogs
that occasionally jump up on people frighten me unless they are tiny.
But if they only do that when we enter the house, I can cope as long
as you hold the dog away from me at that time.
If you put me in a hotel, please cover the costs of the telephone
calls I will need to transfer my email. Some hotels charge a lot of
money for this.
Many countries have a law that hotels must report all guests to the
police. In most cases, this orwellian policy applies not only to
foreigners like me, but to citizens as well! The citizens should be
outraged by this, but often they are not.
If your country has this policy, please join me in striking a blow
against Big Brother, by finding a place other than a hotel for me to
stay in. I will be happier in my visit if I can stay in a place that
doesn't demand to see my passport. If the police want to talk with me
about free software, they are welcome to come to my speech.
If you have found a person for me to stay with, please forward this
section and the two following sections to that person.
Beds:
Many people like hard beds, but they cause me muscle aches that keep
me awake. In general there is no way you can determine for me whether
a bed is too hard; hardness is relative and we do not know how your
standards compare with mine. But one data point is that futons are
always too hard for me. I have tried many futons, and every one of
them was painful. So if it isn't distinctly softer than every futon
you have ever seen, it is too hard.
If you don't know for a fact that I can sleep on the bed you have in
mind, please arrange to have on hand either a vacuum cleaner or a hair
dryer with a "cool" setting, so I can to inflate my air mattress if I
need it.
Hotel beds are often very hard; I cannot necessarily sleep on the bed
in the hotel. But at least we can count on a hotel to have a vacuum
cleaner.
In case you are wondering, I cannot feel a pea under a mattress, but I
might feel a peanut under a thin mattress.
Email:
It is very important for me to be able to transfer email between my
laptop and the net, so I can do my ordinary work. While traveling, I
often need to do the work and the transfer late at night, or in the
morning before a departure. So please set up a way I can connect to
the net from the place I am staying.
A modem connection is fine if it works, so please verify in advance
that the telephone line you expect me to use has a modular jack and
that it works to call the ISP from that line. Hotels in Europe and
Asia often have peculiar phone systems; the staff may tell you it is
possible to call an ISP from the hotel *but they may be wrong*. The
only way to tell for certain is to go to the hotel, try phoning with a
computer from a guest room, and see if it actually works. Until you
have tested it, don't believe it!
I already have ISPs to call in the US and in some other places;
elsewhere, please find me a local ISP to call. (It would be nice if
the account will continue working afterward, so that I can use it
again if I come back or from other places in the region.) Hotel phone
fees may be significant, and I expect you to cover them. However, I
normally connect to the net only for around ten minutes at a time,
twice a day, so it won't be too much.
If a hotel says "We have internet access for customers", that is so
vague it is meaningless. So please find out exactly what they have.
If they have ethernet connections, that will work, provided they do
not have a firewall that blocks ssh. If they have phone lines for
computers, that will work if you come up with an ISP I can use. If
they have wireless lan, that won't work, since I do not have wireless
cards.
(...)
Food:
I enjoy delicious food, and I like most kinds of cooking if they are
done well (the exception being that I cannot eat anything very spicy).
So I like to go to restaurants that are good at whatever kind of food
they do. I don't arrive with specific preferences for a kind of food
to eat--rather, I want to have whatever is good in the area: perhaps
the local traditional cuisine, or the food of an immigrant ethnic
group which is present in large numbers, or something unusual and
original.
Some foods I dislike include:
avocado
eggplant, usually
desserts that contain fruit or liqueur
sour fruits, such as grapefruit and most oranges
hot pepper
liver (even in trace quantities)
stomach and intestine; other organ meats
oysters
I often dislike foods that taste strongly of egg yolk,
and some strong cheeses.
It would be nice for you to ask around among your acquaintances to
find people who like good food and are familiar with the area's
restaurants. They will be able to give good recommendations.
Sightseeing:
If I am visiting an interesting city or region, I will probably want
to do a few hours of sightseeing in between the work. But don't try
to plan sightseeing for me without asking me first--I can only spare a
limited time for it, so I am selective about where to go. Please
don't assume I want to see something just because it is customary to
take visitors there. That place may be of no interest with me.
Instead, please tell me about possible places to visit--then I can say
what I would like.
I enjoy natural beauty such as mountains and rocky coasts, ancient
buildings, impressive and unusual modern buildings, and trains. I
like caves, and if there is a chance to go caving I would enjoy that.
(I am just a novice as a caver.) I often find museums interesting.
If there is a chance to watch folk dancing, I would probably enjoy
that. I tend to like music that has a feeling of dance in it, but I
sometimes like other kinds too. However, I generally dislike the
various genres that are popular in the US, such as rock, country, rap,
reggae, techno, and composed American "folk". Please tell me what
unusual music and dance forms are present; I can tell you if I am
interested.
If there is something else interesting and unique, please tell me
about it. Maybe I will be interested.
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Bien a vous - Best regards,
Guylhem P. XXXX
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Apres Guylhem et rms je reprend le clavier :
Merci aux 40 personnes qui avaient entendu parler de notre projet et qui
n'ont pas ébruité les choses.
Merci a ceux qui ont bossé et à ceux qui bosserons.
Merci à la mairie de Ramonville à l'UPS, a nos partenaires.
Pour les démocrates inquiets de notre mode de "préparation à l'arrache"
qu'ils sachent que pour faire venir rms c'était une gageure que Guylhem à
réussi. Ne boudons pas notre plaisir.
Vous pouvez lacher l'information, encore merci pour le silence lors de la période
de travail.
Et vive le LL
Patrick LABATUT
Président du CULTe
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