Event Detail

 
Event Title An International Talk on "Free Software and Your Freedom"
Event Date 15-12-2014
Event Address Maharana Pratap Auditorium, Vidya Ashram School, Jaipur, Rajasthan
Speaker Dr. Richard Matthew Stallman (President FSF
USA)
Guest Ashok Jain (Judge Labor Court)
Anand Tater (Director Reboot INC.)
Event Detail

An International talk has been organized with the help of Rajasthan Information Technology Organization(RITO) and FossYatra on 15 December 2014 at Maharana Pratap Auditorium under chairperson Dr. Richard Matthew Stallman (President FSF,USA). In this, students of many colleges of city were participate and achieving knowledge about free software And Freedom and also know about their future importance.

This Event is attended by  IT HODs of different Colleges, IT Partners, IT Software representatives, Mr. Ashok Jain (Judge Labor court),  Mr. Tarun Taunk (President of RITO) , Mr. Anand Tater (Director  Reboot INC.) and G.T. Rao (FossYatra).

In this event Dr. Stallman said that free software or licenced free software respects Freedom but it does not have any direct relationship with money & cost. He also says that if knowledge about free software has been provided in colleges & education organizations then education level not only developed but also less weight for organizations and better career opportunities are provided in IT Sector.

Dr. Richard Says that today proprietary software has been covered into market so that their will be restriction to use that software's. Education is a sector if where promotion of free software will be done in a better way then it will be better for future of  making IT Enabled  and there will be less requirements for high specification computers for free software's so that e-waste is also less generate.

Dr. Richard Matthew tell about GNU and FSF organization and also provide knowledge about General Licence Policy.

Mr. Ashok jain (Judge Labor court)says that training of free software has been given to all judges of court and such kinds of software's are use in court so that Budget of I.T Govt. Is spend more on hardware and less in software's.

In this Talk, Mr. Tarun Taunk (President Of RITO) says that free software is better option for those social persons who are not capable for purchase propitiatory software and those who have not required these type of high technology software's. He also says that cause of free software user have not any requirement to upgrade their computers and both software's are their own needs but they use where their needs.

Bytes from Students & Audience

  • The session was too good and enriched us with a lot of knowledge about free software.
  • Meeting and listening to RMS in person was like a dream coming true.
  • There are lots of opportunities for the user if he uses free software.
  • We're highly obliged to introduce RMS.
  • Questioning & Clearing the doubts or queries was having it straight from the father of free software.