Group: Manchester/2009-04-06
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- Location: The Waterhouse
- Date: 2009-04-06
- Start time: 19:00
Contents
Agenda
Time | Agenda Item | Objectives | Lead |
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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
- Supporting Material: Minutes of Meeting on 2009-03-09
- Objective: Approval of Minutes of Meeting on 2009-03-09.
Room Booking
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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
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Objectives:
- Continue to arrange speakers
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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
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Objectives:
- Get the books sorted and stored with various members
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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
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Objectives:
- Finish filling out the form for the bank account
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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.
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Actions from previous meeting:
- Matt M to produce business plan and complete bank account forms.
Marbella Computer Cluster
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Objectives:
- Update on where and when the computers need to be moved in?
The Arcspace Project
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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.
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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
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Objectives:
- Summary of the conference.
- What we did well and what we could do better next time.
Chairperson Elections
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Objectives:
- The upcoming election for a new chairperson.
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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
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Supporting material:
- Any remaining actions from the previous meeting.
Next Meeting
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Objectives:
- Review of this meeting.
- Time and location: 2009-05-11 19:00 at the Waterhouse?
- List of agenda items to include