The first annual FSF Associate Membership meeting, MIT Campus, Cambridge, MA

The first annual FSF Associate Membership meeting took place from 10:00 AM - 4:30 PM on Saturday 15 March 2003 at MIT in Cambridge, MA, USA.

The event was held on the MIT campus in Building 1, Room 190.

Schedule

Schedule for the 2003 Associate Membership Meeting

Saturday 15 March 2003
Cambridge, MA, USA
MIT, Building 1, Room 190 

10:00 - 10:30 Continental Breakfast (provided)
10:30 - 12:00 FSF Program Staff Presentation, followed by Q&A
 Overview - Bradley M. Kuhn
 GPL Compliance Lab - David Novalis Turner
 GNU Press - Lisa Opus Goldstein
 Free Software Directory - Janet Casey
 FSF/GNU Computing 
 Infrastructure - Paul Fisher
 Digital Speech - Ravi Khanna
12:00 - 1:30 Lunch (provided, but donations to cover cost are requested.)
 During Lunch there will be an informal GPG Key Signing
 party.
1:30 - 2:15 GNU General Public License: The Next Generation
 Eben Moglen, Board Member and General Counsel of FSF
 Professor of Law & Legal History at Columbia Law School
 Foundation General Counsel, Eben Moglen, will discuss the
 future of the GPL, outlining the process for development
 of GPL version 3, and describing the challenges we face in
 making and adopting the next generation GPL.
2:15 - 3:00 The Legacy of Computer Science
 Gerald Jay Sussman, FSF Board Member
 Matsushita Professor of Electrical Engineering 
 Massachusetts Institute of Technology 
 We have witnessed and participated in great advances, in
 transportation, in computation, in communication, and in
 biotechnology. But the advances that look like giant
 steps to us will pale into insignificance by contrast to
 the even bigger steps in the future. Prof. Sussman will
 present and defend his viewpoint that Computer Science is
 not a science, and its ultimate significance has little to
 do with computers. The computer revolution is a
 revolution in the way we think and in the way we express
 what we think.
3:00 - 3:10 Break
 
3:10 - 3:50 Q&A with FSF Leadership, including:
 Geoffrey S. Knauth FSF Board Member
 Bradley M. Kuhn FSF Executive Director
 Eben Moglen FSF Board Member & General Counsel
 Henri Poole FSF Board Member
 Richard M. Stallman FSF President
 Gerald J. Sussman FSF Board Member
3:50 - 4:00 Break
 
4:00 - 5:00 Copyright Versus Community in the Age of Computer Networks
 Richard M. Stallman
 Founder and President of FSF
5:00 - Dinner

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