Free Software Foundation president Richard Stallman (RMS) was in Romania this month, to deliver the keynote speech at the Fundația Ceata-organized Coliberator 2017 conference (2017-10-07-08), at the Biblioteca Centrală a Universității Politehnica din București, in Bucharest, on October 7^th, to about 140 people. While there, he also spoke to students at a GNU/Linux Install Fest.

(Photo under CC BY-SA 3.0 and courtesy of Fundația Ceata.)

To coincide with the conference, the foundation's partners organized satellite events. In Iași, on October 9^th, at the Universitatea Tehnică "Gh. Asachi" din Iași, RMS met with Tranzit's diverse community of activists, artists, political science students, and software developers.

(Photo under CC BY-SA 3.0 and courtesy of Florin Bobu.)

And in Timișoara, about 450 people packed the auditorium of the Universitatea Politehnica Timișoara, in an event co-organized by the Computer Science Department, to hear him give his speech “Free Software and Your Freedom”:

(Photos under CC BY-SA 3.0 and courtesy of Titus Bălan.)

Thank you to Tiberiu-Constantin Turbureanu and to everyone else who made this appearance possible!

Please fill out our contact form, so that we can inform you about future events in and around Bucharest, Iași, and Timișoara. 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.