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Meetings
Manchester Free Software meets regularly: There are general group meetings which will often be talks on the various issues we cover, discussions, workshops; and there are administrative meetings that deal with the running of the group and organisation of group meetings and events.
Group Meetings
Group meetings occur on the third Tuesday of the month at 19:00. The normal format is a talk with questions until about 20:30 and then informal discussion at a pub. Currently the talk venue is Madlab and is followed by an informal discussion in the bar opposite (A Place Called Common).
2007
| Date | Topic/Description | Speaker/Organiser | Status | Organiser | Video |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13th November | Running a business with Free Software | Matthew Bloch, Bytemark Hosting | Done | No video | |
| 11th December | Manchester Showcase 2008 | Tim Dobson | Done | Video? |
2008
| Date | Topic/Description | Speaker/Organiser | Status | Organiser | Video |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15th January | Free software | Aidan McGuire, Blue Fountain Systems | Done | No video | |
| 19th February | Free software advocacy, LUGRadio | Stuart Langridge, LUGRadio | Done | archive.org | |
| 18th March | Evolving Freedom | Alex Hudson | Done | Andy Halsall? | |
| 15th April | ELER/Brightbox | John Leach | Done | Andy Halsall? | |
| 20th May | Sustainable Education Solutions | Richard Rothwell, M6-IT CIC | Done | PerfDave | No video |
| 17th June | OpenStreetMap | John McKerrell | Done | Simon | No video |
| 22nd July | BBC Backstage | Ian Forrester | Done | Simon | Theora MKV blip.tv |
| 19th August | Free Space Manchester | Mick Fuzz | Done | PerfDave | Mick Fuzz |
| 16th September | Free as in profit (fonts and software freedom) | Dave Crossland | Done | Tim | No sound yet archive.org |
| 28th October |
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Done | archive.org | |
| 18th November | The Value of Free Software and how it changes Society, Economy and Business | Elmar Geese | Done | Lucy | Tim (processing) |
| 16th December | Christmas party | Manchester Free Software | Done | No video |
2009
| Date | Topic/Description | Speaker/Organiser | Status | Organiser | Video |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20th January | Setting up and sustaining a global FOSS-based business | Ian Lynch | Done | Lucy | Tim (maybe) |
| 17th February | What you don't get for free: the cost of building a Drupal site | Chris Maiden/James Panton - NWDUG | Done | Tim | Tim (upload) |
| 17th March | TBC | John Adams | Done | Simon | Tim (maybe) |
| 21st April | green h: A social enterprise using free software | Des | Done | Lucy | No video |
| 19th May | Plings - freeing data | Steven Flower - substance.coop/plings | Done | Lucy | Tim archive.org? XVID AVI blip.tv |
| 16th June | Free Software and Microblogging | Jon Spriggs | Done | Tim | archive.org |
| 21st July | Professional Audio Editing with Free Software | Dan Lynch | Done | Lucy | archive.org |
| 18th August | Debian Stories | Enrico Zini | Done | Tim archive.org? blip.tv? | |
| 15th September | Access Space Sheffield | James Wallbank | Done | archive.org | |
| 20th October | Python and Kamaelia | Michael Sparks | Done | Tim | archive.org |
| 17th November | Bug Reporting | Michael Dorrington | Done | Mike | Tim |
| 15th December | Christmas Party (with key signing) | Manchester Free Software | Done | Mike | No video |
2010
| Date | Topic/Description | Speaker/Organiser | Status | Organiser | Video |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19th January | 100% free software gaming: No cheating! | Michael Dorrington | Done | Mike | Tim |
| 16th February | What makes Debian special? (Afterwards a Cryptography Un-Workshop) |
Leslie I'Anson (Robert Burrell Donkin) |
Done | Leslie | No video. |
| 16th March | The Semantic Desktop, SPARQL and You! | Rob Taylor, Managing Director, Codethink Ltd. | Done | Mike | Tim |
| 20th April | Giving's Hard To Do: Free Software in the UK Voluntary Sector, and why you should care. | Richard Smedley, GoodGNUs | Done | Mike | No video. |
| 18th May | Sheffield University Free Software Society Plus a screening of Patent Absurdity |
Chris Warburton | Done | Mike | No video. |
| 15th June | GNU's Not Linux: kFreeBSD and Hurd kernels for the GNU System. | Michael Dorrington | Done | Mike | No video. |
| 20th July | Present and future threats to software freedom. | Dr. Roy Schestowitz | Done | Mike | No video. |
| 17th August | KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine): How to use it and its uses | Michael Dorrington | Done | Mike | No video. |
| 21st September | Joomla - How, why, what, when and where | Tim Corless-Carter | Done | Mike | No video. |
| 19th October | An Introduction to GNU R | Robin Gower, Infonomics Ltd. | Done | Mike | No video. |
| 16th November | IPv6 and Free Software: The next generation Internet Protocol in the Free World. | Michael Dorrington | Done | Mike | No video. |
| 21st December | Christmas Party | Manchester Free Software | Upcoming | Mike |
2011
| Date | Topic/Description | Speaker/Organiser | Status | Organiser | Video |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18th January | How to build an ISP using Free Software | Thomas Mangin | Upcoming | Mike | |
| 15th February | (Provisional) Building from source: Use the source, Luke! | Michael Dorrington | Upcoming | Mike | |
| 15th March | (Provisional) Free Software on Windows | Michael Dorrington | Upcoming | Mike | |
| 19th April | (Provisional) Wine: Windows without Windows | Michael Dorrington | Upcoming | Mike | |
| 17th May | (Provisional) Linux device-mapper: LVM, RAID, Multipath, dm-crypt | Michael Dorrington | Upcoming | Mike | |
| 21st June | Upcoming | Mike | |||
| 19th July | Upcoming | Mike | |||
| 16th August | Upcoming | Mike | |||
| 20th September | Upcoming | Mike | |||
| 18th October | Upcoming | Mike | |||
| 15th November | Upcoming | Mike | |||
| 20th December | Christmas Party | Manchester Free Software | Upcoming | Mike |
Meeting Publicity
Meetings are usually Publicised to various relevant organisations around Manchester.
Administrative Meetings
The time and location of administrative meetings will be indicated in the wiki once it has been decided.
| Date | Time | Location | Agenda | Minutes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008-03-18 | 21:00ish | FAB Cafe | None | Minutes |
| 2008-04-15 | 17:30 | FAB Cafe | Agenda | Minutes |
| 2008-05-20 | 17:30 | The Cornerhouse | Agenda | Minutes |
| 2008-06-09 | 19:00 | The Waterhouse | Agenda | Minutes |
| 2008-07-14 | 19:00 | The Waterhouse | Agenda | Minutes |
| 2008-08-11 | 19:00 | The Waterhouse | Agenda | Minutes |
| 2008-09-08 | 19:00 | The Waterhouse | Agenda | Minutes |
| 2008-10-13 | 19:00 | Marbella Cafe | Agenda | Minutes |
| 2008-11-10 | 19:00 | Marbella Cafe | Agenda | Minutes |
| 2008-12-08 | 19:00 | The Waterhouse | Agenda | Minutes |
| 2009-01-12 | 19:00 | The Waterhouse | Agenda | Minutes |
| 2009-02-09 | 19:00 | The Waterhouse | Agenda | Minutes |
| 2009-03-09 | 19:00 | The Waterhouse | Agenda | Minutes |
| 2009-04-06 | 19:00 | The Waterhouse | Agenda | Minutes |
| 2009-05-11 | 19:00 | The Waterhouse | Agenda | Minutes |
| 2009-06-08 | 19:00 | The Waterhouse | Agenda | Minutes |
| 2009-07-13 | 19:00 | The Waterhouse | Agenda | Minutes |
| 2009-08-10 | 19:00 | The Waterhouse | Agenda | Minutes |
| 2009-09-07 | 19:00 | The Waterhouse | Agenda | Minutes |
| 2009-10-12 | 19:00 | The Waterhouse | Agenda | Minutes |
| 2009-11-09 | 19:00 | The Waterhouse | Agenda | Minutes |
| 2009-12-14 | 19:00 | The Waterhouse | Agenda | Minutes |
| 2010-01-11 | 19:00 | The Waterhouse | Agenda | Minutes |
| 2010-02-08 | 19:00 | The Waterhouse | Agenda | Minutes |
| 2010-03-08 | 19:00 | The Waterhouse | Agenda | Minutes |
| 2010-04-12 | 19:00 | The Waterhouse | Agenda | Minutes |
Future Administrative/Social Meetings
See also: Manchester, Manchester/Speakers
