Well, I remember Richard Stallman visited my country for at least once.
He was received at the national University, at its Engineering Area called "Facultad de Ingeniería".
Now, at that "Facultad", students in favor of free hardware are going to present the following activity (at bottom of this text).
I'll try to go and see what they are doing, and know if that is really free hardware or not (or however it shoud be called instead of "free"... open? ecological?)
It may sounds funny, but we the ecological farmers also had some trouble to determine the name that describes us. The discussion was centered about if we should be called ecological, organics or family.
Perhaps this sort of discussion about names does never end, but in the meantime, a certain battle always takes place: the one that puts selfish people who doesn't care for the rest of society, confronting those who try to make of this world a better place.
I'll try to don't judge Stallman no matter he did. I expect that even if a significant person does something unacceptable, the organization we create (the society, as some prefer to say) will put each one of us in the place that each one of us deserve. And the real mistakes each one of us makes, won't be correctly denounced by journalists or press, but for the results of their work. One day, lots of people believed Bill Gates was a great person, and now, few years later, no one would believe he's special in some way, isn't it?
And I wouldn't care too much for the luck of corporations. Apple or Microsoft can shout they are the most important thing in the world, and Ubuntu or Linux can corrupt or whatever, but there's something that remains almost untouched, and it's that technology and science are not the same thing. Did you know Einstein only needed his brain and a pencil to develope his enormous capacity?
But, I don't agree with Stallman when he says, "what if computers suddenly disappear? then we can continue without any problem!".
That's a too romantic view of technology. I think we must care for computers in the same teams as we care for our society problems. As they help us, care for them. Not more, not less.
I didn't have time to translate the following information, but if google's translator doesn't help to understand it, you can ask me about it.
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Del *miércoles 3* al *sábado 6* de octubre, se estará realizando una nueva edición de SUMO.UY <http://sumo.uy/> en la Facultad de Ingeniería (UdelaR). Este año además de las competencias de; sumo, sumbot, butiá, fútbol de robots, habrá demostraciones de desarrollos en robótica, talleres y charlas. Pueden ver el cronograma completo aqui:
http://www.fing.edu.uy/inco/eventos/sum ... grama.html
Este año, HACKLAB gracias a la invitación de la gente de sumo.uy estará
participando dando una charla sobre "Hardware Libre y Prototipado", donde mostraremos parte de la experiencia en los talleres de fabricación de herramientas libres.
La charla será el Viernes 5 a las 19:30 hrs. Vamos a estar mostrando las máquinas resultante del taller.
Están todos más que invitados!
La gente de sumo.uy también hizo extensiva al HACKALB la invitación a
participar de los
"Talleres de armado y programación de robots butiá".
http://www.fing.edu.uy/inco/proyectos/butia/
El Taller consiste en la construcción y programación de un robot Butiá
mediante la fabricación de los circuitos electrónicos y nociones de
programación básicos en Tortubots.
Para todos los interesados en iniciarse en el mundo de la electrónica es
una actividad bien interesante, donde desde cero, cada participante
construirá un robot butiá que quedará funcional al final de la 2da jornada.
El taller se desarrollará en los días miércoles 3 y Jueves 4, de 18:00 a 21:00 hrs. Los interesados deberán inscribirse a la brevedad en éste link http://www.fing.edu.uy/inco/eventos/sum ... Taller.php
Es gratuito pero con cupos limitados.
Esperamos que puedan concurrir al sumo.uy
Les dejamos un saludo a todos, y nos seguimos viendo en próximas
actividades.
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