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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.

Mailing List

Join the mailing list at fsuk-manchester mailing list. This is where we discuss Free Software issues, events and news.

Group Meetings

Group meetings are on the third Tuesday of the month at 19:00. We normally have a talk with questions and then continue discussions informally. These meetings are currently held at Manchester Technology Centre - Tech Incubator. Details are posted to the fsuk-manchester mailing list beforehand.

Events

In addition to the Group Meetings, MFS organises and helps out with special events in order to promote the Free Software philosophy. If you have an event you would like us help out with, or that we might be interested in, please get in contact with the team at fsuk-manchester-team@nongnu.org. We wish to attend a broad range of events.

Meetings and events are now posted to the mailing list only and not here. The mailing list archives can be read at fsuk-manchester Archives and we recommend you join the fsuk-manchester mailing list.

You Can Help

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

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.

Team

Contact the MFS Team at fsuk-manchester-team@nongnu.org.

Information for Team members.

FAQ

Questions that we get asked and the answers are in the FAQ.

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.

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.

Historic

From when this wiki was used to list group meetings and events. Now these are posted to the mailing list only.

Historic Group Meetings

Historic Group Meetings.

Historic Events

MFS 7th Birthday celebration Thursday, 13 November 2014
Software Freedom Day (SFD) 2014 in Manchester - Saturday, September 20th, 2014 - http://softwarefreedomday.org/
MFS 6th Birthday (and GNU 30th) celebration at the Red Hot World Buffet - 19:00 (for 19:30) until 21:00 - Wed, 13 Nov 2013
OggCamp2013 - Sat-Sun, 19-20 Oct 2013
Software Freedom Day (SFD) 2013 in Manchester - Saturday, September 21st, 2013 - http://softwarefreedomday.org/
Hardware Freedom Day (HFD) 2013 in Manchester - Saturday, April 20th, 2013 - http://hfday.org/
International Day Against DRM 2012 Manchester - Friday, 4th May 2012 - International Day Against DRM
Chorlton's Big Green Festival 2012 - Saturday, 31st March 2012 - Chorlton's Big Green Festival
Manchester Anarchist Bookfair 2011 - Saturday, 3rd December 2011. 10am-4pm - Manchester Anarchist Bookfair site
Extraordinary Talk: Game On - Game Creation and Distribution with Gluon - Monday, 28th November 2011. 19:00-20:30. - GamingFreedom.org
FLOSSUK Unconference 2011 - Saturday, 8th October, 2011 - http://www.flossuk.org/Events/Unconference2011 (Note that Manchester Free Software is a Free Software group not a FLOSS group, see Why Open Source misses the point of Free Software)
Software Freedom Day (SFD) 2011 in Manchester - Saturday, September 17th, 2011 - http://softwarefreedomday.org/
Chorlton's Big Green Festival 2011 - Saturday, 16th April 2011 - Chorlton's Big Green Festival
GNOME 3.0 Launch Party - Sunday, 10th April 2011. 14:00-17:00. - GNOME 3.0
Ucubed - Saturday, 2nd of April 2011. 10:00-17:00. An event to encourage community involvement in Ubuntu and Debian based distributions using the freedom given by free software.
Ubuntu beginners workshop: the system and the philosophy 11.02 - Saturday, 19th February 2011 - Importantly this will be about the system and the philosophy.
Manchester Anarchist Bookfair 2010 - Saturday, 2nd October 2010 - Manchester Anarchist Bookfair site
Software Freedom Day (SFD) 2010 in Manchester - Saturday, September 18th, 2010 - http://softwarefreedomday.org/
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

Historic Projects

Projects that Manchester Free Software is involved in.

Historic Merchandise

We have a selection of books, badges and stickers for sale, some kindly donated by the Free Software Foundation. Proceeds go to Manchester Free Software to fund our work.

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.

@@ Line 7: / Line 7: @@
 There are other [[#Free Software related groups|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.
-Anybody is welcome to the meetings, but you will be particularly interested if you are into such things as
+== Mailing List ==
-[http://www.fsf.org/ Free Software Foundation], [http://www.gnu.org/ GNU Project] including [http://www.gnu.org/gnu/gnu-linux-faq.html#why GNU/Linux], [http://progfree.org/ League for Programming Freedom], Free as in freedom BSDs like [http://www.freebsd.org/ FreeBSD], [http://www.netbsd.org/ NetBSD], [http://www.openbsd.org/ OpenBSD], [http://www.openrightsgroup.org/ Open Rights Group], [http://www.mozilla.org/about/manifesto.html Mozilla project], [http://www.oss-watch.ac.uk/ OSS Watch], [http://www.hackspace.org.uk/ Hackspace Foundation], [http://www.mysociety.org/ mySociety], [http://www.defectivebydesign.org/ anti-Digital Restrictions Management], [http://www.openstreetmap.org/ OpenStreetMap], [http://www.freeourdata.org.uk/ Free Our Data], [http://www.libelreform.org/ The Libel Reform Campaign], [http://data.gov.uk/ data.gov.uk], [http://opendatamanchester.wordpress.com/ Open Data Manchester], [http://www.drumbeat.org/about Mozilla Drumbeat].
-==Mailing List==
+'''Join the mailing list at [http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/fsuk-manchester fsuk-manchester mailing list]. This is where we discuss Free Software issues, events and news.'''
-You can join the mailing list at [http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/fsuk-manchester fsuk-manchester mailing list]. This is where we discuss free software issues, events and news.
 ==Group Meetings==
-Group meetings are on the third Tuesday of the month at 19:00. We normally have a talk with questions and then
-continue discussions informally at a nearby pub. These meetings are currently held at [http://madlab.org.uk/ Madlab]. Details are in the [[Manchester/Meetings#Group_Meetings|Group Meetings]] table and are posted to the [http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/fsuk-manchester fsuk-manchester mailing list] beforehand.
+Group meetings are on the third Tuesday of the month at 19:00.  We normally have a talk with questions and then
+continue discussions informally.  These meetings are currently held at [https://mspl.co.uk/campuses/manchester-technology-centre/tech-incubator/ Manchester Technology Centre - Tech Incubator]. Details are posted to the [http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/fsuk-manchester fsuk-manchester mailing list] beforehand.
 ==Events==
 In addition to the [[Manchester/Meetings#Group_Meetings|Group Meetings]], MFS organises and helps out with special events in order to promote the [http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html Free Software philosophy]. If you have an event you would like us help out with, or that we might be interested in, please get in contact with [[#Team|the team]] at [mailto:fsuk-manchester-team@nongnu.org fsuk-manchester-team@nongnu.org]. '''We wish to attend a broad range of events.'''
-===Upcoming===
+Meetings and events are now posted to the mailing list only and not here.  The mailing list archives can be read at [https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/fsuk-manchester/ fsuk-manchester Archives] and we recommend you join the [http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/fsuk-manchester fsuk-manchester mailing list].
-* [https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/fsuk-manchester/2018-01/msg00000.html MFS Meeting. Tue, 16 January. "Meltdown and Spectre", 16 January 2018]
+==You Can Help==
+Find out [[Manchester/Actions|what needs to be done]] to keep the group running.
+==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 [[Manchester/Speakers|Speakers]] page for more information.
+==Team==
+Contact the MFS Team at [mailto:fsuk-manchester-team@nongnu.org fsuk-manchester-team@nongnu.org].
+Information for [[Manchester/Team|Team]] members.
+==FAQ==
+Questions that we get asked and the answers are in the [[Manchester/FAQ|FAQ]].
+==Publicity==
+When publicising meetings or events we inform various [[Manchester/Meetings/Publicity|online communities]].
+A general list of [[Manchester/Publicity/Places|places to publicise]] Manchester Free Software.
+A list of [[Manchester/Publicity/Materials|materials]] to use when publicising 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 [http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html Free Software] and [http://www.gnu.org/gnu/why-gnu-linux.html GNU/Linux] primarily, but also on issues such as [http://www.defectivebydesign.org/ Digital Restrictions Management] and other issues which infringe on the freedoms of computer users.
+=== Historic ===
+From when this wiki was used to list group meetings and events.  Now these are posted to the mailing list only.
+==== Historic Group Meetings ====
+* [[Manchester/Meetings#Group_Meetings|Historic Group Meetings]].
+==== Historic Events ====
-===Past===
 * MFS 7th Birthday celebration Thursday, 13 November 2014
 * [http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/2014/UK/Manchester Software Freedom Day (SFD) 2014 in Manchester] - Saturday, September 20th, 2014 - http://softwarefreedomday.org/
@@ Line 51: / Line 82: @@
 * [[Euro Elections 2009]] - Manchester Free Software petitions the candidates
-==Projects==
+==== Historic Projects ====
 [[Manchester/Projects|Projects]] that Manchester Free Software is involved in.
-==FAQ==
+==== Historic Merchandise ====
-Questions that we get asked and the answers are in the [[Manchester/FAQ|FAQ]].
-==You Can Help==
-Find out [[Manchester/Actions|what needs to be done]] to keep the group running.
-==Team==
-Contact the MFS Team at [mailto:fsuk-manchester-team@nongnu.org fsuk-manchester-team@nongnu.org].
-Information for [[Manchester/Team|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 [[Manchester/Speakers|Speakers]] page for more information.
-==Publicity==
-When publicising meetings or events we inform various [[Manchester/Meetings/Publicity|online communities]].
-A general list of [[Manchester/Publicity/Places|places to publicise]] Manchester Free Software.
-A list of [[Manchester/Publicity/Materials|materials]] to use when publicising Manchester Free Software.
-==Merchandise==
 We have a selection of [[Manchester/Merchandise|books, badges and stickers for sale]], some kindly donated by the [http://www.fsf.org/ Free Software Foundation]. Proceeds go to Manchester Free Software to fund our work.
-==History==
-Manchester Free Software was formed in response to the growing need for a group based in the Manchester area that focuses on [http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html Free Software] and [http://www.gnu.org/gnu/why-gnu-linux.html GNU/Linux] primarily, but also on issues such as [http://www.defectivebydesign.org/ Digital Restrictions Management] and other issues which infringe on the freedoms of computer users.
 ==What about other groups in the local area?==
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 ==Free Software related groups==
-* [[Perl User Groups, Manchester]]
 * [[GNU/Linux User Groups, Manchester]]
 * [[Free Software User Groups, Manchester]]

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