Submitting a LibrePlanet talk: "GNU and the Lisp Machine". Or should it be "The Lisp Machine and GNU"?
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Here's the talk description I submitted for "The Lisp Machine and GNU":
Most free software activists have heard the story of Stallman and the printer, but even more core to the genesis of the free software history involves the battle over the heart and soul of the lisp machine. We'll trace Lisp and the Lisp Machine's roots, from its genesis in early hacker culture and the AI labs, to the split that (largely) pushed RMS to found GNU, through its role within and without the free software community. Why did GNU become a "Not Unix", and why not a lisp machine? What about the role of Lisp within GNU, with projects like Emacs, Guile, and Guix? And what can we learn from parallel free software communities such as Clojure, and even not-at-all free systems like Symbolics (so we can make our free software systems better, of course)? And for those who are new to the Lisp world, there will be a mini-tutorial so you too can learn stop worrying and love the parentheses.
I also submitted one on federation. Both would be a lot of fun to give!
Christopher Allan Webber at 2016-11-30T20:55:25Z
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@cwebber@identi.ca Shouldn't it be a backronym with parenthesis?