RMS was in India, the Netherlands, and Canada this past month. He started his trip in February in Pilani, in Delhi, and in Roorkee, where he spoke, at APOGEE 2016, the annual Birla Institute of Technology & Science–Pilani technical festival, at Tryst, the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi's annual science and technology festival, and at Cognizance,¹ IIT–Delhi's annual technical festival. He then moved on…

…to Bhopal, where, on the invitation of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology Student Branch, he gave his speech “Free Software and Your Freedom,”² on March 5^th, to students of all levels from the MANIT:

(Photos under CC BY-SA 3.0. Photos courtesy of Achal Arya, Priyesh Patel, and Vinay Teja Reddy.

…to Utrecht, where he gave his speech “Computing, Freedom, and Privacy,”³ at the IT Talent College, in Utrecht, Netherlands, on March 9^th, to over 200 people:

(Photos under CC BY-SA 3.0. Photos courtesy of Floris Heuer and Just Hemmelar.)

…to Quebec City, Canada, where, at the Université Laval, on the invitation of the university's Institut Technologies de l'information et Sociétés, he gave his speech «Logiciel libre et société libre» on March 16^th to an audience of over 300 people.

(Photos under CC BY-SA 3.0. Photos courtesy of the ITIS.)

…and then, on to Montreal, where, as a guest of the Adte, an organization whose mandate is "to promote the use of free software in higher education," he gave his speech "Free Software and Your Freedom,"⁴ at the Colloque libre de l'Adte, to an audience of about 200 people, before posing for a picture with Adte vice-president Rafael Scapin, holding…a copy of the third edition of RMS's Free Software, Free Society.

(Photos under CC BY-SA 3.0. Photo courtesy of the Adte.)

Finally, once he was home again in Cambridge, on March 19^th, during Free Software Awards to Library Freedom Project, which reveice the Project of Social Benefit Award, and Werner Koch, who received the Award for the Advancement of Free Software. Later, on March 29th, he gave his speech "Computing in Freedom, Developing in Freedom," at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, on March 29^th.

Please fill out our contact form, so that we can inform you about future events in and around Pilani, Delhi, Bhopal, Roorkee, Utrecht, Quebec City, Montreal, or Cambrige. Please see www.fsf.org/events for a full list of all of RMS's confirmed engagements, and contact rms-assist@gnu.org if you'd like him to come speak.

Thank you to all the organizers for having made this trip possible!

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