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Richard M. Stallman is an American software freedom activist and computer programmer. In September 1983, he launched the GNU Project to create a free Unix-like operating system, and has been the project’s lead architect and organizer. With the launch of the GNU Project, he initiated the free software movement and, in October 1985, set up the Free Software Foundation.

Stallman pioneered the concept of copyleft and he is the main author of several copyleft licenses including the GNU General Public License, the most widely used free software license. Since the mid-1990s, Stallman has spent most of his time advocating for free software, as well as campaigning against both software patents and what he sees as excessive extension of copyright laws. Stallman has also developed a number of pieces of widely-used software, including the original Emacs, the GNU Compiler Collection, and the GNU Debugger. He co-founded the League for Programming Freedom in 1989.

Richard M. Stallman will have following speeches in Bosnia and Hercegovina in May, 2010:

What: Copyright vs. Community
When: May 19, 2010 from 11:00 AM to 01:30 PM
Where: IBU conference hall, main building, third floor, Francuske revolucije bb; Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina

What: Free Software Movement and the GNU/Linux Operating System
When: May 20, 2010 from 02:00 PM to 04:30 PM
Where: IBU conference hall, main building, third floor, Francuske revolucije bb; Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina

What: Free Software Movement and the GNU/Linux Operating System
When: May 22, 2010 from 14:00 PM to 16:00 PM
Where: Fakultet Informacijskih Tehnologija, Univerzitet Dzemal Bijedic; Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina

We hope that you will come to listen speeches from Stallman and that you will enjoy those events. It is good opportunity to visit those events since we do not know when we will have Stallman in Bosnia and Hercegovina again. If there is additional information needed, please let me know.

1. Richard M. Stallman
2. Free Software Foundation

Few months ago I passed Implementing Cisco Quality of Service (QoS). It was one of those “real life” exams with lot of simulations and drag and drop questions. Passing score was set to around ~80% and there was around 50 questions or so. Since Quality of Service is one of the huge areas there is lot of viable documentation. I would recommend Cisco QOS Exam Certification Guide (IP Telephony Self-Study), 2nd Edition from Cisco Press, but there are plenty of other books focused on this area as well. One of the best organized online learn sessions that I have found to be focused on this area was written by Paul Stryer from Global Knowledge. Please find links below text pointing to that online learn session. I need to mention that it is best practice to give a try to all of the solutions that you can find in this texts on real equipment, deploy Quality of Service in your organization and you will gain required understanding and experience to pass this exam. Beside that, you will have your network working much better than it was in prior to implementing QoS within your organization. Since I am following Cisco CCVP track this was only exam that is not directly related to voice (I mean it is not organized around voice strictly) and it was very nice experience. Personally I really enjoyed learning and preparing this stuff, and most of the solutions that I have learned are something that needs and can be implemented in networks that I was working with.

Quality of Service, Part 1 – Introduction
Quality of Service, Part 2 – Introduction
Quality of Service, Part 3 – Introduction
Quality of Service, Part 4 – QoS Mechanisms
Quality of Service, Part 5 – Classification
Quality of Service, Part 6 – Marking
Quality of Service, Part 7 – Service Policy
Quality of Service, Part 8 – Congestion Management
Quality of Service, Part 9 – FIFO Queuing
Quality of Service, Part 10 – Weighted Fair Queuing
Quality of Service, Part 11 – CBWFQ
Quality of Service, Part 12 – Low Latency Queuing
Quality of Service, Part 13 – MQC Pop Quiz
Quality of Service, Part 14 – MQC Pop Quiz Answer

I hope that you will enjoy reading above texts and that you will enjoy implementing Cisco Quality of Service. If you would need some additional information please leave a comment.