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We only list here recordings that are hosted on audio-video.gnu.org. Introductory videos explaining basic notions come first, and are marked with an asterisk. The other recordings are in reverse chronological order. Associated resources (transcripts, subtitles, etc., if any) are also listed.

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Play Richard Stallman calls for the creation of a Free Universal Encyclopedia and Learning Resource (New Orleans, 1999)

By:  Richard Stallman
Event:  30th Technical Symposium of SIGCSE (Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education)
Date:  March 26, 1999
Location:  New Orleans, LA
Language:  English
Duration:  2min 29s

License:  Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-ND 4.0)

Play Richard Stallman at the First Hackers Conference (1984)

By:  Richard Stallman
Event:  First Hackers Conference
Thanks to:  Fabrice Florin
Date:  November 9-11, 1984
Location:  Sausalito, CA
Language:  English
Duration:  58s

Copyright © 1984 Richard Stallman (speech)
Copyright © 1985 Fabrice Florin (original video)
Copyright © 2022 Free Software Foundation, Inc. (this video)
License:  Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-ND 4.0)

  • Video (mixed clips) 540x360 WebM VP8/Vorbis (3.8 MB)

It was at this conference that Richard Stallman first publicly and explicitly stated the idea that all software should be free, and the ethical principles that set the foundations of the free software movement.

The scenes were extracted by the GNU Webmasters Team from the documentary Hackers: Wizards of the Electronic Age, with permission from Fabrice Florin, in May 2022.