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 December 12, 2014 at the Auditorium of Daffodil International University from 14:30 pm. Daffodil International University (DIU) and Foundation for Open Source Solution (FOSS) Bangladesh are jointly organizing the seminar.
Dr. Richard Mathew Stallman
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 are becoming famous day by day. Among the free softwares, in web browsing we know Firefox and Chromium very well. For Graphics design now we can think of GIMP, Inkscape and Blender for professional and home use. There are LibreOffice and OpenOffice as like any other Office document processing packages. And each of these are built using open compilers named GNU compiler and GNU Compiler Collection (GCC). And this main tools a programmer can run his/her code to make a valuable, effective software. The main slogan for this digital and social movement is "FREE Software-FREE Hardware-Digital Freedom". 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.
Dr. Richard Stallman launched the free software movement in 1983 and started developing the GNU operating system (see www.gnu.org) in 1984. GNU is free software, hence everyone has the freedom to copy it and redistribute it, with or without changes. The GNU/Linux system, (basically the GNU operating system with added Linux), is used on tens of millions of computers today. Dr. Stallman has received the ACM Grace Hopper Award, MacArthur Foundation fellowship, the Electronic Frontier Foundation's Pioneer Award, Takeda Award for Social/Economic Betterment, as well as several doctorates (honoris causa, 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.
