Group:Manchester/2008-08-11

• Location: The Waterhouse
• Date: 2008-08-11
• Start time: 19:00

Agenda

Time	Agenda Item	Objectives	Lead
19:00 (+10)	Introductions		Paul
	Last Meeting	Adopt minutes	Lucy
19:10 (+5)	Announcements and other business		Simon
19:15 (+10)	Speakers	Confirmed and suggested speakers	Simon
19:25 (+10)	Software Freedom Day	Current status	Dave
19:35 (+10)	Promotion	Places and materials to promote	Dave
19:45 (+5)	Recording	Current status	Simon
19:50 (+5)	More other business		Matt
19:55 (+5)	Next Meeting	Time, place, and agenda items	Matt
20:00	Finish

Last Meeting

• Supporting Material: Minutes of Meeting on 2008-07-14
• Objective: Approval of Minutes of Meeting on 2008-07-14.

Speakers

• Actions from previous meeting:
  • Alan Burlison — Tim
  • Ben G — Dave
  • Harald Welte — Simon
  • Jono Bacon — Simon
  • MJ Ray — Dave
  • Stephen Fry — Tim
  • Someone from gNewSense (Brian Brazil?) — Dave
  • Someone from Moodle — Tim
• Other speakers contacted:
  • Glyn Wintle — Lucy
  • Jason Clifford — Dave
  • Steve Durrant — Dave
• Suggested speakers:
  • Michael Sparks
  • Jamie Van Dyke

Software Freedom Day

• Supporting Material: Free The Library 2008 SFD Plan
• Previous Actions:
  • Matt to resend contact details for the library
  • Dave to contact someone at Manchester library to make arrangements for SFD.

Promotion

• Objectives:
  • List of places to promote
  • List of promotional materials
• Previous actions:
  • Dave (and others!) to see the NO2ID minutes for suggestions of (free) places to advertise Manchester Free Software. Additional suggestions included The Green Room.
  • Tim to populate a wiki page with a list of places to promote talks regularly. This will include mailing lists, Indymedia and other local groups.
  • Tim to get Manchester Free Software listed on the Free Software Foundation website as a free software group.

Recording

• Previous actions:
  • Dave to buy a high capacity SD card for his camera and to speak to Mick about obtaining a video camera for his talk.
  • Simon to speak to the MDDA about the possibility of borrowing a video camera for future talks.

Next Meeting

• Objectives:
  • Review of this meeting.
  • Time and location: 2008-09-09 19:00 at the Waterhouse?
  • List of agenda items to include:
    • Approve mailing list name item