Group: Manchester/2009-06-08/Minutes
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Minutes for Meeting of 2009-06-08
Time: 19:00, Monday 8th June.
Present: Leslie, Michael, Simon, Tim
Apologies: Lucy, Matt
The meeting was chaired by Tim, with minutes taken by Simon. The start of the meeting was delayed by approximately 20 minutes.
Last Meeting
The minutes of the last meeting dated 2009-05-11 were read and approved by all present.
Announcements
As sole nominee for the position of Treasurer, Matt takes the position for the next six months.
Room Booking
The poll for venue options showed:
| Venue | ||
|---|---|---|
| Option | Lass O’Gowrie | BBC, Oxford Road |
| In favour | 3 | 3 |
| Could live with this option | 1 | 1 |
| Against | 1 | 1 |
Michael had not responded to the poll, but favoured the Lass O’Gowrie, so it was decided to book the Lass O’Gowrie for the next three meetings.
Leslie offered his workplace as an option for consideration, but noted that it closes at 19:45. It was affirmed that we should still look for other options.
Action: Simon to inform Lucy and ask to book us in at the Lass O’Gowrie for the next three meetings.
Team Mail Alias
Asked if he would like to be added to the team mail alias, Leslie said he would.
Action: Simon to ask Paul to add Leslie to the team mail alias.
Speakers
There are currently no speakers in the August and September slots.
Mike had chased up Chris Warburton suggesting the October meeting would be ideal. Tim offered to follow up on that. It was briefly suggested to get promotional materials targeted at students in time for this meeting, but there was no action to do so at this time.
Action: Tim to follow up on arranging for Chris Warburton to speak.
Action: Dave to arrange for student society to book a University room for October talk. (From previous meeting.)
Action: Tim to talk to Microsoft guy. (From previous meeting.)
Banking
Matt was not present to give a status update at the meeting.
Arcspace
Leslie went to the Futuresonic event and helped with general IT issues. Children and other people were using the machines, mainly to play games, with no perceived hindrance through their use of free software.
There was a demo of some (potentially free) software, published through tgl.tv.
No dates were given for a future event.
Software Freedom Day
The general consensus was that attempting to arrange something with the Central Library was not worth it, although if somebody wanted to try they could.
Suggestions were some activity in Piccadilly Gardens, possibly with a stall to sell free software merchandise. Ideally we would need a logo so we could produce Manchester Free Software merchandise.
Leslie offered to register Manchester Free Software for SFD ’09, and lead the organisation of the event.
Action: Leslie to register Manchester Free Software for SFD ’09.
LUG Radio Live
Leslie and Mike said they would be at LUG Radio Live and available to help on a free software and Manchester Free Software stall. Simon may be available to help for some of the time.
Any Other Business
Actions carried from last meeting:
- Matt Larsen to arrange a stall for fresher’s fair.
- Simon to contact Matt Lee about the running and future of FSUK.
Next Meeting
The time and location of 2009-07-13 19:00 at the Waterhouse was agreed. Simon apologised for his absence at the next meeting.
