At 10am we opened the doors to the Racker Rally Room in the Rackspace Datapoint offices, and "Rackers" (what we call Rackspace employees) from all over the company came flooding in.
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Some people just wanted the chance to get a picture with him...
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But most were buying up FSF.org books and T-shirts for Richard to sign.
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Some of Rackspace's uber-geekiest guys came out from all the various San Antonio Rackspace offices.
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Everyone was eager to meet the man who created gcc and most of the early GNU/Linux Operating System, and get something signed by him.
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We had FSF.org pins, keychains, books and T-shirts...
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But I think most Rackers just wanted to come out and meet the legend.
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Some of these folks have only been working at the Rack for a couple of years...
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and others for a decade now (such as Javier there on the end).
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Uber geek and n00b alike were thrilled at this once in a lifetime opportunity.
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And Stallman sensed how big a fan base he had at the Rack.
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Debbie Talley (right) really helped us pull this thing off.. and KRACK (the internal streaming radio station) did on site interviews!
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"Sweetums", a KRACK DJ, even asked me for a few words.
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This is Bri.. one of Rackspace's uber geek-chicks getting a shirt signed.
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Sweetums interviewing Stallman between autographs.
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All in all.. a huge success. Rackers got to meet a legend, and we raised over $2100 for the Free Software Foundation!
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What was really fun was lunch afterwards! Stallman hung out with some of the Rackspace uber geeks and we hit a favorite Racker Korean BBQ house. :)
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The owner herself came in and made us a couple of very special dishes. Yum!
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Later that night XCSSA.org had reserved seating at Stallman's lecture at Trinity! (click to view PDF of flyer)
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XCSSA met at SAC and then all carpooled over to Trinity together. Here we are about to go in.
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Here's Stallman preparing for his talk with his famous hair twirling. :)
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This folder will eventually contain the video footage of Stallman's Trinity lecture.
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