Group: Manchester/2009-04-06

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  • Location: The Waterhouse
  • Date: 2009-04-06
  • Start time: 19:00

Agenda

Time Agenda Item Objectives Lead
19:00 (+10) Introductions Lucy
Last Meeting Adopt minutes Lucy
19:10 (+5) Announcements and other business Simon
19:15 (+5) Room Booking Status of room booking for meetings Lucy
19:20 (+5) Speakers Confirmed and suggested speakers Lucy
19:25 (+5) Books An update of the books from the FSF Michael
19:30 (+5) Banking Application for a bank account Matt
19:35 (+5) Marbella LTSP Cluster An update on the computers in the Marbella Cafe Michael
19:40 (+10) The Arcspace Project An update on the Arcspace Project Michael
19:50 (+5) Oekonux Conference Update of involvement in the Oekonux Conference Lucy
19:55 (+5) Chairperson Elections Schedule for upcoming chairperson elections Lucy
20:00 (+5) More other business Lucy
20:05 (+5) Next Meeting Time, place, and agenda items Lucy
20:10 Finish

Last Meeting

Room Booking

  • Objectives:
    • Discussion of new meeting venue for MFS.
    • Results of member's preferences for whether we should stay at the MDDA
    • Location for April's meeting!!

Speakers

  • Objectives:
    • Continue to arrange speakers
  • Actions from previous meeting:
    • Dave to chase up his potential speakers.
    • Lucy to chase up John Adams about talk title.
    • Lucy to get confirmation of Dan Lynch from Linux Outlaws about talk.
    • Lucy to speak to Matthew L about speaker Matthew L knows.(?)
    • Michael to find out start dates for Manchester Uni and confirm Chris Warburton talk date.
    • Tim to chase up Microsoft guy.
    • Yuwei to chase up friend who uses free software to make art and films.
    • Team to arrange talk dates and fill in calendar.

Books

  • Objectives:
    • Get the books sorted and stored with various members
  • Actions from previous meeting:
    • Lucy to email lists (ManLUG, MFS) and Matthew L with details of books we have.
    • Matthew L to attempt to sell books at Man Uni when he gets book details.
    • Michael to contact list about others taking some books to store.
    • Michael to contact Lucy and Dave about storing a small box of books each.

Banking

  • Objectives:
    • Finish filling out the form for the bank account
  • Supporting material:
    • The bank details and current address (and previous address if moved within the last 3 years) of all members who will be responsible for the bank account.
    • Signatures from all members who wish to be signatories on the account.
  • Actions from previous meeting:
    • Matt M to produce business plan and complete bank account forms.

Marbella Computer Cluster

  • Objectives:
    • Update on where and when the computers need to be moved in?

The Arcspace Project

  • Objectives:
    • Update on the progress of the Arcspace project since the last meeting
    • Where do we go from here?
    • Setting up the computer cluster
    • Holding training sessions - Saturday 18th April and at FutureSonic in May.
  • Actions from previous meeting:
    • Lucy to speak to Vicki to clarify what we will do (free software) and will not do (non-free software). And the requirements for power and Internet.
    • Lucy to email out workshop dates. (18th or 25th April).

Oekonux Conference

  • Objectives:
    • Summary of the conference.
    • What we did well and what we could do better next time.

Chairperson Elections

  • Objectives:
    • The upcoming election for a new chairperson.
  • Actions from previous meeting:
    • Lucy to contact Paul Waring about being the independent vote counter.
    • Lucy to send out dates and details to mailing list.

Any other business

  • Supporting material:
    • Any remaining actions from the previous meeting.

Next Meeting

  • Objectives:
    • Review of this meeting.
    • Time and location: 2009-05-11 19:00 at the Waterhouse?
    • List of agenda items to include