Group: Manchester/2008-09-08

• Location: The Waterhouse
• Date: 2008-09-08
• 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 (+10)	Books	120 FSF Books!	Dave
19:55 (+5)	Recording	Current status	Simon
19:55 (+5)	More other business		Matt
20:00 (+5)	Next Meeting	Time, place, and agenda items	Matt
20:05	Finish

Last Meeting

• Supporting Material: Minutes of Meeting on 2008-08-11
• Objective: Approval of Minutes of Meeting on 2008-08-11.

Speakers

We urgently need more speakers!

• Actions from previous meeting:
  • Dave to contact Ben Green.
  • Simon to continue contact with Harald Welte.
  • Simon to contact Jono Bacon.
  • Tim to contact Stephen Fry.
  • Tim to contact DNUK.
  • Lucy to contact John Pinner.
  • Tim to contact Rufus Pollock.

Software Freedom Day

• Supporting Material: Free The Library 2008 SFD Plan
• Previous Actions:
  • Matt to give Dave web links and contact information for the library.
  • Lucy to chase Dave about the library and supplies from SFD.
  • 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:
  • Lucy to create A4 poster.
  • Lucy to create A5 leaflet.

120 Books

The FSF has given us 120 books to sell, with 65% of the price going back to the FSF. This will give us money towards future events, as well as raising money for the FSF.

• Objectives:
  • Arrange to store the books with various people
  • Make arrangements to handle the cash raised by selling the books.

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.
  • Paul to investigate and search for the lost Warped camera.

LinuxWorld Expo

• Objectives:
  • Are we going and can we get a stand or help out with an existing stand?

Next Meeting

• Objectives:
  • Review of this meeting.
  • Time and location: 2008-10-13 19:00 at the Waterhouse?
  • List of agenda items to include