Group:Manchester

See also - Manchester Co-working

Manchester Free Software was formed in response to a growing apparent 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.

Anybody is welcome to the meetings, but you will be particularly interested in the meetings if you are interested in the activities of the Free Software Foundation, GNU Project, League for Programming Freedom and the GNU/Linux operating system.

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.

Meetings

Group meetings occur the third Tuesday of the month at 19:00. Details are posted on the web site and to the fsuk-manchester mailing list prior.

Administrative meetings happen on the second Monday of the month. The time and location will be stated in the agenda for the next meeting on this wiki and will be posted on the web site and to the fsuk-manchester mailing list.

See the Meetings page for more details.

Events

• Free The Library 2008 - our planned Software Freedom Day event
• Showcase 08

Projects

A list of projects that Manchester Free Software is involved in.

You Can Help

Find out what needs to be done to keep the group running

The instructions for setting up a LTSP cluster.

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.