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Manchester Free Software (MFS)

Purpose

The purpose of Manchester Free Software is to promote the Free Software philosophy.

About

There are other Free Software related groups in Manchester but MFS is the only one that focuses on the Free Software philosophy. We are not FSF Manchester although we share much of the FSF philosophy.

Mailing List

Join the mailing list at fsuk-manchester mailing list. This is where we discuss Free Software issues, events and news.

Group Meetings

Group meetings are on the third Tuesday of the month at 19:00. We normally have a talk with questions and then continue discussions informally. These meetings are currently held at Manchester Technology Centre - Tech Incubator. Details are posted to the fsuk-manchester mailing list beforehand.

Events

In addition to the Group Meetings, MFS organises and helps out with special events in order to promote the Free Software philosophy. If you have an event you would like us help out with, or that we might be interested in, please get in contact with the team at fsuk-manchester-team@nongnu.org. We wish to attend a broad range of events.

Meetings and events are now posted to the mailing list only and not here. The mailing list archives can be read at fsuk-manchester Archives and we recommend you join the fsuk-manchester mailing list.

You Can Help

Find out what needs to be done to keep the group running.

Speakers

We’re always looking for new speakers. If you have suggestions for speakers, or would like to speak yourself, please go on to the Speakers page for more information.

Team

Contact the MFS Team at fsuk-manchester-team@nongnu.org.

Information for Team members.

FAQ

Questions that we get asked and the answers are in the FAQ.

Publicity

When publicising meetings or events we inform various online communities.

A general list of places to publicise Manchester Free Software.

A list of materials to use when publicising Manchester Free Software.

History

Manchester Free Software was formed in response to the growing need for a group based in the Manchester area that focuses on Free Software and GNU/Linux primarily, but also on issues such as Digital Restrictions Management and other issues which infringe on the freedoms of computer users.

Historic

From when this wiki was used to list group meetings and events. Now these are posted to the mailing list only.

Historic Group Meetings

Historic Events

Historic Projects

Projects that Manchester Free Software is involved in.

Historic Merchandise

We have a selection of books, badges and stickers for sale, some kindly donated by the Free Software Foundation. Proceeds go to Manchester Free Software to fund our work.

What about other groups in the local area?

Manchester has a healthy tradition of groups based on free software technologies, but these groups suffer from a tendency to focus on mixing free software with proprietary software, or even proprietary operating systems, such as Mac OS X. Worse still, many of the groups are suffering from a strong bias against groups like the GNU Project and Free Software Foundation.

We anticipate that this group can happily co-exist with the others. Both the BSD and LUG groups have many members in common, and we hope many of them will want to belong to our group as well.

Free Software related groups

See also - Manchester Co-working


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