Please forward this mail to interested parties. ISG proudly presents: What: "Free Software and Opensource Software" Talk, Competition Award, Reception When: April 9th, 2001 -- 14:00-18:00 Where: Audimax, ETH Zurich (main building) Talk by Richard Stallmann ========================= Our guest-speaker Richard Stallman (Free Software Foundation) will talk about "The Free Software Movement and the GNU/Linux Operating System" He will also address the current issues concerning software patents. Richard Stallman is the founder of the GNU Project, launched in 1984 to develop the free operating system GNU (an acronym for ``GNU's Not Unix''). Stallman is the principal author of the GNU C Compiler, a portable optimizing compiler which was designed to support diverse architectures and multiple languages. The compiler now supports over 30 different architectures and 7 programming languages. Stallman also wrote the GNU symbolic debugger (GDB), GNU Emacs, and various other GNU programs. First Swiss Opensource Competition ================================== The winners of the "First Swiss Opensource Competition" will be announced during the event and their projects will be presented. The competition was organized by the IT Support Group of the Departement of Electrical Engineering of ETH Zurich together with the Swiss Open System User Group, /ch/open. Reception ========= A reception will follow the event at 18:00 in front of the Audimax of ETH Zurich. The reception is sponsored by Sun Microsystems Switzerland. You can help us planning the event by notifying us of your attendence by sending an eMail to osc(a)ee.ethz.ch More info can be found about - Richard Stallman at http://www.stallman.org - the event at http://www.ee.ethz.ch/events/ - the competition at http://opensource.ee.ethz.ch Please forward this mail to interested parties. -- Dr. Fritz Zaucker, Head IT Support Group Department of Electrical Engineering, Federal Institute of Technology ETZ J97, Gloriastrasse 35, CH-8092 Zurich, Switzerland Tel.: +41-1-632-5241 Fax: +41-1-632-1194 http://ee-staff.ethz.ch/~zaucker/ E-mail: zaucker(a)ee.ethz.ch (see home page for PGP key) _______________________________________________ TLF mailing list TLF(a)switch.ch http://central.switch.ch/mailman/listinfo/tlf