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# Moscow Free Software Conference

The International Center for Scientific and Technical Information hosted a free software conference in Moscow, April 19--23, 1993. Over two hundred people attended, arriving from the Commonwealth of Independent States, Austria, Denmark, Germany, Iran, Japan, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and the United States of America.

Guest of honor Richard Stallman explained why he writes free software. Among the topics of the conference were an Algol--68 to C converter, the Andrew User Interface System, Coexistence in a World of New Freedoms, Efficient Recognition of Static Search Sets with `gperf`, experiences from implementing a free Modula--2 translator, Russian Experiences from a Children's Computer Club, the Russian SQL server currently under development, the Russian PLATON Integrated Bank System, GNU Documentation in Russia, Linux in Education, and Free Software in Russia. Other topics included resource organization (databases and directories), and free software business aspects.

The conference was sponsored by PC World magazine, PC Center "Techno", UrbanSoft Ltd. of St. Petersburg, Trading House Ostankino, KLOTO Scientific Research, Zelenogradsky Center "Zelax", and John Goode.

Write Victor P. Ivannikov, `ivan@ivann.delta.msk.su`, Sergei Kuznetsov, `kuz@ivann.delta.msk.su`, or Yuri P. Smirnov, `sup@ivann.delta.msk.su`, to contact GNU in Russia. For more information about the conference, contact Geoffrey S. Knauth, `gsk@marble.com`.

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