Manchester/2011-10-10/Minutes

Minutes of Meeting of 10th October 2011

Time: 19:00, Monday, 10th October 2011.

Present: Mike (Chair, Minutes), Sam T

Apologies: Llewyn

Location: The Waterhouse

Introductions

None needed.

Last Meeting

Minutes of last meeting dated 12th September 2011 were approved as correct by Michael. Sam T has seen them but will report back if they are incorrect. Manchester/2011-09-12/Minutes.

Announcements and other business

Sam T will use AOB at the end.

Speakers

Ellie is doing November. We have bonus talk on Gaming Freedom on 28th November.

October, Ellie can't do. Possibly Ric from Swirrl, a company doing data analysis use free software tools and released something under free software. But 30 mins talk but I (mike) can do something. But not confirmed. Also asked Shadowcat systems, perl people, to do a talk, met them at UKUUG/FLOSS UK unconference, emailed them on Sunday not heard back. Back up plan is mike do a talk on copyright. Sam T mentioned government copyright report which favours sharing and democratising(?) copyright reform, see Pirate Party site. Sam T do half an hour on something, Sam T to think on it.

Sam T, talk idea on web analytics including privacy.

ACTION: - Yuwei to contact person.

ACTION: - JP to contact Toby Howard.

Anarchist book fair

Llewyn not present but no more details on ABF AFAIK.

ACTION: - Llewyn to continue to sort out ABF.

FLOSS UK Unconference

Mike attended and represented MFS. Attended a few talks, interesting one on trying to get the BBC to do a programming on the Raspberry Pi for kids. Lot of the Perl North West people and we share a lot in common with them. They are coding sprint, we might want to publicise it.

Software Freedom Day

Turn out could have been better but bad weather didn't help. Leaflets did work, people turned up for the next few days. Variety of people who hadn't heard of free software before. Bob Ham was there and good to see him.

SFD2012. Is Madlab a good venue for SFD? No charge, wifi, power, central. Alternative is stall in a public square. Madlab with better advertising. Leaflet surrounding area earlier because didn't realise how open companies would be to allowing leaflets.

Merchandise

Mike to sent announcement list about Merchandise.

Promotional Material

Mike still hasn't done webpage.

ACTION: - Mike to do webpage.

More other business

Sam T. Event freedom discussion. Freedomboxes.

Next Meeting

Nothing extra.

Low turn out but good chat.

Monday, 7th November 2011. 19:00 at The Waterhouse. (1st Monday because 2nd Monday is only the day before 3rd Tuesday (talk day))