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The purpose of Manchester Free Software is to promote the [http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html Free Software philosophy]. | The purpose of Manchester Free Software is to promote the [http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html Free Software philosophy]. | ||
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Revision as of 13:31, 24 September 2010
Contents
Manchester Free Software (MFS)
Purpose
The purpose of Manchester Free Software is to promote the Free Software philosophy.
About
There are other Free Software related groups in Manchester but MFS is the only one that focuses on the Free Software philosophy. We are not FSF Manchester although we share much of the FSF philosophy. One example of disagreement is that we regard Debian GNU/Linux as a good Free Software choice whereas FSF officially do not[1].
Anybody is welcome to the meetings, but you will be particularly interested if you are into such things as Free Software Foundation, GNU Project including GNU/Linux, League for Programming Freedom, Free as in freedom BSDs like FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Open Rights Group, Mozilla project, OSS Watch, Hackspace Foundation, mySociety, anti-Digital Restrictions Management, OpenStreetMap, Free Our Data, The Libel Reform Campaign, data.gov.uk, Open Data Manchester, Mozilla Drumbeat.
Meetings
Group meetings occur on the third Tuesday of the month at 19:00. Details are in the Group Meetings table and are posted to the fsuk-manchester mailing list prior.
Events
If you know of an event that MFS might want to attend then please let us know. We wish to attend a broad range of events.
Upcoming
- Software Freedom Day (SFD) 2010 in Manchester - Saturday, September 18th, 2010 - http://softwarefreedomday.org/
- Manchester Anarchist Bookfair 2010 - Saturday, 2nd October 2010 - Manchester Anarchist Bookfair site
Past
- U3 - Ubuntu and Upstream UnWorkshop Day - Saturday, August 28, 2010 from 11:00 AM - 9:00 PM
- Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" Jam in Manchester - Ubuntu Jams
- Chorlton's Big Green Festival 2010 - Chorlton's Big Green Festival
- Logo Competition - details and entries for our logo competition, 2009.
- Software Freedom Day 2009 in Manchester - plans for our Software Freedom Day 2009 event
- Free The Library 2008 - our planned Software Freedom Day event
- Showcase 08
- Euro Elections 2009 - Manchester Free Software petitions the candidates
Projects
Project that Manchester Free Software is involved in.
FAQ
Questions that we get asked and the answers. FAQ.
You Can Help
Find out what needs to be done to keep the group running
The instructions for setting up a LTSP cluster.
Team
Information for Team members.
Speakers
We’re always looking for new speakers. If you have suggestions for speakers, or would like to speak yourself, please go on to the Speakers page for more information.
Publicity
When publicising meetings or events we inform various online communities.
A general list of places to publicise Manchester Free Software.
A list of materials to use when publicising Manchester Free Software.
Merchandise
We have a selection of books, badges and stickers for sale, kindly donated by the Free Software Foundation. Proceeds go to both the FSF and Manchester Free Software.
History
Manchester Free Software was formed in response to the growing need for a group based in the Manchester area that focuses on Free Software and GNU/Linux primarily, but also on issues such as Digital Restrictions Management and other issues which infringe on the freedoms of computer users.
What about other groups in the local area?
Manchester has a healthy tradition of groups based on free software technologies, but these groups suffer from a tendency to focus on mixing free software with proprietary software, or even proprietary operating systems, such as Mac OS X. Worse still, many of the groups are suffering from a strong bias against groups like the GNU Project and Free Software Foundation.
We anticipate that this group can happily co-exist with the others. Both the BSD and LUG groups have many members in common, and we hope many of them will want to belong to our group as well.
Free Software related groups
- Perl User Groups, Manchester
- GNU/Linux User Groups, Manchester
- Free Software User Groups, Manchester
- PHP User Groups, Manchester
- Hurd User Groups, Manchester
See also - Manchester Co-working
"issue" is not in the list (interest, location, project, school) of allowed values for the "Organized around" property.
