{"id":63,"date":"2006-02-16T11:11:05","date_gmt":"2006-02-16T11:11:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pgregg.com\/wp\/2006\/02\/bruce-perens-and-richard-stallman-to-speak-in-belfast\/"},"modified":"2006-02-16T11:11:05","modified_gmt":"2006-02-16T11:11:05","slug":"bruce-perens-and-richard-stallman-to-speak-in-belfast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.pgregg.com\/blog\/2006\/02\/bruce-perens-and-richard-stallman-to-speak-in-belfast\/","title":{"rendered":"Bruce Perens and Richard Stallman to speak in Belfast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/foss-means-business.org\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">FOSS Means Business.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>As <a href=\"http:\/\/botanicus.net\/dw\/weblog.php#entry_1139960757\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">DW<\/a> writes over on his page, Bruce Perens and Richard Stallman are coming to Belfast in March 2006 for a FOSS event.&nbsp; I will simply repeat DW&#8217;s post as we need to get more publicity for this event.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<table style=\"width: 95%\" align=\"center\" cellspacing=\"4\" cellpadding=\"6\">\n<tr>\n<td class=\"punquote\"><span class=\"puntext\"><b>DW wrote:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ciaran.compsoc.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Ciaran O&#8217;Riordan<\/a> of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fsfe.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Free Software Foundation Europe<\/a> has announced that <a href=\"http:\/\/perens.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Bruce Perens<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stallman.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Richard Stallman<\/a> will be coming to Belfast to speak on March 16th at the Spires conference center in the city. More<br \/>information can be found at the <a href=\"http:\/\/belfoss.org\/Home\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">FOSS Means Business<\/a> web site.<\/p>\n<p>This promises to be a really interesting event to attend, if for no other reason than to listen to Stallman&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/gplv3.fsf.org\/draft\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">GPL v3<\/a> advocacy talk. It is a very rare opportunity for you to come along and learn more about what is perhaps one of the most defining moments for free software this decade.<\/p>\n<p>Entrance, thus far, appears to be free, or at least very cheap.<br \/><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p><span class=\"puntext\"><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll try to go and capture photographs of the event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FOSS Means Business. As DW writes over on his page, Bruce Perens and Richard Stallman are coming to Belfast in March 2006 for a FOSS event.&nbsp; I will simply repeat DW&#8217;s post as we need to get more publicity for this event. DW wrote: Ciaran O&#8217;Riordan of the Free Software Foundation Europe has announced that &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.pgregg.com\/blog\/2006\/02\/bruce-perens-and-richard-stallman-to-speak-in-belfast\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Bruce Perens and Richard Stallman to speak in Belfast&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbQOUu-11","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.pgregg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.pgregg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.pgregg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.pgregg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.pgregg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.pgregg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.pgregg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.pgregg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.pgregg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}