World Famous IT Giant Dr. Richard Matthew Stallman, President of Free Software Foundation will conduct a seminar on “A Free Digital Society” as keynote speaker on this December 12, 2014 at the Auditorium of Daffodil International University at the Sobhanbag Campus from 14:30 pm. Daffodil International University (DIU) and Foundation for Open Source Solution (FOSS) Bangladesh jointly organizing a seminar.
Now a day’s the most popular server system and the whole Internet system are running on GNU/Linux distributions like Debian, Redhat, Ubuntu etc. In Desktop computing Ubuntu, Linux Mint and Fedora is becoming famous at present. Among the Free software, in web browser we know Firefox and Chromium very well. For Graphics design we can think of GIMP, Inkscape and Blender for professional and home use. There is LibreOffice and OpenOffice as like any other Office document processing program. And each of these programs are built on using an open compiler program named GNU compiler and GNU Compiler Collection as GCC. And this is the main tools by using which a programmer can run his/her code to make it avaluable, effective software. The main streamline for this digital social movement is named as FREE Software-FREE Hardware-Digital Freedom movement and the Founder of this movement is Dr. Richard Matthew Stallman, President of Free Software Foundation. He is coming to Bangladesh for the first time ever.
In a very short brief bio: Dr. Richard Stallman launched the free software movement in 1983 and started 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, with or without changes. 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 Takeda Award for Social/Economic Betterment, as well as several doctorates honors cause, and has been inducted into the Internet Hall of Fame.
The seminar is open for all. Every Digital Freedom enthusiast is invited to attend the seminar.
