RMS was in Lisbon, Portugal, this month to give a stand-alone speech, “Should We Have More Surveillance Than the USSR?”¹, hosted by the Núcleo de Alunos de Ciência Política (the political-science students' group), at the Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (ISCTE), on November 10^th. FSF member and the event organizer Daniel Sousa underscored the advantage of being able to reach such a broad audience, especially in light of the how Portugal's “most recent governments have been taking measures that are quite Orwellian for fighting tax evasion”²:

(Photo under CC BY-SA 3.0 and courtesy of Diana Ramos.)

…and to take part in Web Summit (2016-11-07–10), a technology marketplace. RMS was one of the six hundred speakers and gave his speech “Reclaim Your Freedom with Free (Libre) Software” to an audience of about a thousand developers and engineers:

(Photo under CC BY-SA 3.0 and courtesy of Diana Ramos.)

Please fill out our contact form, so that we can inform you about future events in and around Lisbon. 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 the Web Summit organizers and to Daniel Sousa for having made these appearances possible!