Re: [Fsuk-manchester] Thursday's Talk

[langc5]

On Apr 28 2008, Lucy wrote:

> On 28/04/2008, Tim Dobson <address@hidden> wrote:
> > Matt Lee wrote:
> > http://www.fsf.org/resources/what-is-fs/what-is-fs-new.pdf
> > is also
> > > useful to print.
> > >
> > > You might want to adopt it for your own uses. Source is here
> > > http://www.fsf.org/resources/what-is-fs
> > >
> >
> >  cheers matt!
>
> Yep, that's really useful. Can someone volunteer to print some though?

I should be able to print some out as long as we aren't talking hundreds of 
sheets. Just give me some numbers for each of the leaflet types and I'll 
get on it. Also, it might be wise for me to pass them onto to someone else 
before thursday, as I don't know what time I'll be arriving.

On the subject of promotion, I have been trying to get the student unions 
communications officer to attend the talk. He seems interested but I'm not 
the best person for explaining these things, so if anyone can volunteer a 
short paragraph explaining why free software is an important issue, 
especially in education, I'll pass it on to him asap. He's a very liberal 
guy and takes his post next year. With a small push I think he would raise 
awareness of free software around campus considerably. He was responsible 
for the "Reclaim the Uni" demonstration that happened last week, so any 
connection to free education and opposition to unis as a business would be 
a big bonus. I seem to remember watching a stallman talk about FS in 
education a while back but with a deadline looming I'm in no position for 
doing this kind of research. Any help would be appreciated.. I definatly 
think that getting someone like this onboard would be a big boost.

Craig