Colloquium on FREE SOFTWARE AND SCIENCE by Georg Greve, President, Free Software Foundation Europe On Thursday June 7, 2007 at 3:30 pm Venue: V G Kulkarni Auditorium, HBCSE
ABOUT THE TALK
FREE SOFTWARE AND SCIENCE
Free Software and science share common roots, and benefit society in several similar ways. In his talk, Mr Greve will explain the concept of Free Software and how it relates to maintaining our scientific basis as a society. As a practical example of this collaboration, the talk will give a brief introduction of the Science, Education and Learning in Freedom project, in which the Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research plays a crucial role. The talk will close with an overview of how all of this relates to the global political trends of knowledge monopolisation, and the Access to Knowledge initiative.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Georg C.F. Greve
President, Free Software Foundation Europe
In early 2001, Georg Greve initiated the Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE, FSF Europe), the first Free Software Foundation outside the United States of America and the largest transnational Free Software Foundation so far. Construction and coordination of FSFE as European non-governmental organisation, as well as its integration and
coordination in global context was the focus of his work in the past
years. Georg writes in the "Brave GNU World," a monthly column on free software published on the Internet in as many as 10 languages, and in international magazines including the German Linux-Magazin.
The range of Georg's activities spanned areas like technology,
politics, society, and economy as well as classical management. Among
other things, Georg Greve was invited as an expert to the "Commission
on Intellectual Property Rights" of the UK government or represented
the coordination circle of German Civil Society during the first
phase of the United Nations (UN) World Summit on the Information
Society (WSIS) as part of the German governmental delegation; he also
furthered networking the Civil Society working groups on European
level as well as for the thematic working group on Patents, Copyrights, Trademarks (PCT) and Free Software.
All are welcome.
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