Fri 7 Nov: Currybeer social

As usual for the first Friday of the month, a group of us from ManLUG 
(and various other geek groups) will be going out for a curry and some 
drinks on Friday 7th November. We'll be meeting in our usual venue of 
Hardy's Well pub[1], Rusholme, from 7:30pm and then heading off for a 
meal after a couple of drinks. If you haven't been before, one of us 
will usually be wearing a geek t-shirt of some description, so we should 
be fairly easy to spot, and we'll be looking out for people anyway.

See you there!

Paul

[1] http://www.beerintheevening.com/pubs/s/20/2009/Hardys_Well/Rusholme

P.S. There's also a web site where the details of socials are
announced:

http://www.manlug.org.uk

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Admin/Social Meet on Monday 10th November

The next administrative meeting is on Monday 10th November, starting
at 7pm at the Marbella Cafe[1]. The meeting is expected to last about
an hour and will be followed by the usual social meet (probably at a
nearby pub).

As usual, everyone is welcome to attend the meeting or to turn up
afterwards.There are no prerequisites to the meetings, so please feel
free to come along to say 'hi' and to see what it's all about (and to
sample the great food!).

The agenda will be going up on the wiki shortly. If there's anything
you want brought up at the meeting please let us know. The agenda and
minutes will appear as usual at
 http://groups.fsf.org/index.php/Manchester/Meetings#Administrative_Meetings.

 Lucy

 [1] http://marbellacupcakes.com/contact.html

Linux 2008 this weekend

Just a quick reminder that the Linux 2008 conference is in Manchester 
this weekend, with a Python Web Workshop on the Friday followed by two 
days of talks on a wide variety of topics, from "Desktop Adapted for 
Dad" to "Porting Linux to a new architecture -- the right way". Members 
of local user groups can book at reduced rates either beforehand or on 
the day itself:

http://www.ukuug.org/events/linux2008/locallug/

There will also be an exhibitors' area, including an O'Reilly stall 
where books will be available at a significant discount to the cover 
price - this is open to everyone, not just conference delegates.

Paul

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Re: [Fwd: UKUUG - LINUX 08 - discount for local groups]

2008/10/30 Lucy <lucybridges@...>:
> I would rather go there, spread the word about Manchester Free Software and get
> people discussing freedom.

Just to update everyone, flyers promoting Manchester Free Software
will appear in the bags of all the delegates at Linux '08 this
weekend. Hopefully this will get people thinking about free software
in general as well as advertising our next meeting, which will be
really interesting (announcement coming soon).

Oh and a big thanks should go to Paul who actually arranged everything
with the organisers.

Reminder: Admin/Social Meet this Monday

The next administrative meeting is on Monday 10th November, starting
 at 7pm at the Marbella Cafe[1]. The meeting is expected to last about
 an hour and will be followed by the usual social meet (probably at a
 nearby pub).

 As usual, everyone is welcome to attend the meeting or to turn up
 afterwards.There are no prerequisites to the meetings, so please feel
 free to come along to say 'hi' and to see what it's all about (and to
 sample the great food!).

 The agenda will be going up on the wiki shortly. If there's anything
 you want brought up at the meeting please let us know. The agenda and
 minutes will appear as usual at
  http://groups.fsf.org/index.php/Manchester/Meetings#Administrative_Meetings.

  Lucy

  [1] http://marbellacupcakes.com/contact.html

Manchester Free Software talk: Elmar Geese, The Value of Free Software - 18th Nov

Next Meeting
 ------------
Our next meeting will be on Tuesday 18th November, 2008.

This month we have an exciting talk from a very special guest. Elmar
Geese is coming all the way from Germany to give a talk entitled "The
Value of Free Software and how it changes Society, Economy and
Business". Elmar is the founder & CEO of a free software company
called tarent [1], founded in 1996. tarent has around 60 employees now
and is growing. He is also the chairperson of the German Linux
Association (LIVE), an organisation of companies and people doing Open
Source and Free Software Business with around 200 members, and the
Speaker of OBOOE, an European Open Source Business Network with
members from 8+ Countries now.

[1] http://tarent.de

 Location
 --------
The meeting will take place at 19:00 in the Manchester Digital
Development Agency on Portland Street, although there will be people
around from 18.30. Access is via the doorbells at the entrance.
Wheelchair access via the lift is available to the left of the main
entrance.

 MDDA provide complimentary Fair Trade tea and coffee.

 Manchester Digital Development Agency (MDDA)
 Lower Ground Floor
 117-119 Portland Street

Re: [Fwd: UKUUG - LINUX 08 - discount for local groups]

On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 07:26:06AM +0000, Lucy wrote:
> and I'm not sure it's something our members are interested in

Too many assumptions.  It _is_ something that some of our members are
interested in, after all some were involved with the DRM protests
outside the BBC building.  It isn’t necessarily something all of our
members are interested in.

Please don’t make the mistake of deciding what people are interested in
without inolving people.

Simon
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Re: Reminder: Admin/Social Meet this Monday

Lucy wrote:
>  The agenda will be going up on the wiki shortly. If there's anything
>  you want brought up at the meeting please let us know. The agenda and
>  minutes will appear as usual at
>   http://groups.fsf.org/index.php/Manchester/Meetings#Administrative_Meetings.

Could we have an update/discussion on the Marbella LTSP or is the
'Marbella Cafe Tech Meeting' a regular thing?

Logo discussion?

M.

Re: Reminder: Admin/Social Meet this Monday

On 09/11/2008, Michael Dorrington <michael.dorrington@...> wrote:
> Lucy wrote:
>
> >  The agenda will be going up on the wiki shortly. If there's anything
> >  you want brought up at the meeting please let us know. The agenda and
> >  minutes will appear as usual at
> >
> http://groups.fsf.org/index.php/Manchester/Meetings#Administrative_Meetings.
> >
>
>  Could we have an update/discussion on the Marbella LTSP or is the
>  'Marbella Cafe Tech Meeting' a regular thing?
>
>  Logo discussion?

Good points. I've added both of them to the normal agenda. It might
well be worth moving the Marbella Cafe stuff until after the meeting
though, but we can decide that tomorrow depending on when Janey is
available.

2009 Meetings - Alternating Talks and Socials?

One thing discussed at the last Manchester Free Software meeting was our 
schedule of talks for 2009. We've done a pretty good job of organising 
speakers on various aspects of free software and free culture since starting 
off a year ago, but it's not been easy, particularly with so few people 
attending meetings and volunteering to help. A lot of them have been 
organised at short notice, with very little in the way of publicity.

How do people feel about the idea of spending 2009 alternating talks and 
general social events? Personally, I feel that organising a speaker every two 
months would give us more time to organise them, further in advance, and to 
publicise them wider so we can make an effort to reach out beyond the geek 
communities rather than preaching to the converted.

The "off month" could be a general get together, perhaps with some lightning 
talks, or possibly even more project-oriented work.

Dave
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