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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. |
| 14th December | Review of year gone. Discussion on next year. Christmas Party! | Manchester Free Software | Done | Mike | No video. |
2011
| Date | Topic/Description | Speaker/Organiser | Status | Organiser | Video |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18th January | How to build an ISP using Free Software | Thomas Mangin | Done | Mike | No video. |
| 15th February | Introduction to Pure Data: The free software, digital arts, graphical programming language. |
Andrew Faraday | Done | Mike | No video. |
| 15th March | BCS OSSG | Graham Oakes & Mark Elkins | Done | Mike | Mark Elkins audio? |
| 19th April | Pirate Party UK and Free Software | Loz Kaye (Party Leader) and Tim Dobson (PPUK Software Specialist) | Done. | Mike | No recording. |
| 17th May | Puppet and Puppet Labs | Ken Barber | Done. | Mike | No recording. |
| 21st June | PostgreSQL and 2ndQuadrant | Simon Riggs | Done. | Mike | No recording. |
| 19th July | Controlling your Cloud: Puppetising OpenNebula | Ken Barber | Done. | Mike | No recording. |
| 16th August | Hacklabs, Free Culture, & (Autonomous) Distributed Networks | Victoria Sinclair, ArcSpace (and Hackademia). | Done | Llewyn | No recording. |
| 20th September | FreedomBox: Enabling private conversations online | Sam Tuke | Done | Mike | No recording. |
| 18th October | Freeing Data with Free Software UK Copyright: Past, Present and Future |
Ric Roberts, Swirrl Michael Dorrington, MFS |
Done | Mike | No recording. |
| 15th November | Diaspora and Distributed/Federated Social Networking | Distributed/Federated (Michael Dorrington plus Diaspora users) |
Done | Mike | No recording. |
| 13th December | Review of year gone. Discussion on next year. Christmas Party! | Manchester Free Software | Done | Mike | No recording. |
2012
| Date | Topic/Description | Speaker/Organiser | Status | Organiser | Video |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17th January | Embrace your Community: an open model for business | Mark Keating (Managing Director) & Matt Trout (Technical Director), Shadowcat Systems Limited |
Done | Mike | Video (link to follow) |
| 21st February | Git: How Linux, the kernel, is developed. | Michael Dorrington | Done | ||
| 20th March | OpenPheonux (GTA04): Return of the free phone | Michael Dorrington | Done | ||
| 17th April | FreedomBox: Practical freedom in a box | Michael Dorrington | Done | ||
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12th May 2nd Saturday of month, not usual 3rd Tuesday. |
MRTG + FreedomBox | Daniel Botting + Michael Dorrington |
Done | ||
| 19th June | Free Software advances around the world | Bob Ham | Done | ||
| 17th July | The Quest for a 100% Free Software Laptop | Bob Ham | Done | ||
| 21st August | Demonstration of a 100% Free Software Digital DJ Laptop | Bob Ham | Upcoming | ||
| 18th September | (Provisional) Wine: Windows without Windows | Michael Dorrington | Upcoming | ||
| 16th October | (Provisional) Linux device-mapper: LVM, RAID, Multipath, dm-crypt | Michael Dorrington | Upcoming | ||
| 20th November | Upcoming | ||||
| 18th December | Christmas Party | Manchester Free Software | Upcoming |
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.
Future Administrative/Social Meetings
See also: Manchester, Manchester/Speakers
