An Introduction to Young Rewired State

Hi Everyone,

We're running an event on Thursday 8th July to introduce this years the
next generation of coders and designers to Manchester's Young Rewired
State event.

Young Rewired State is a decentralised, UK-wide, hack-week open to
anyone aged 15 to 18 with an interest in data, coding or design.
This year, it's the first week of August.

It's a great way for young people to learn what skills are needed for
industry, make friends with people at the cutting edge of technology and
perhaps, develop the next 'killer' app!

We're having an evening with Chris Taggart from OpenlyLocal to support
the event and help shed some light on what open data actually is, what
you can do with it and why that is cool.

You can find out more details and let us know you're coming here.
http://yrsman10.eventbrite.com/

If you think you'd be interested helping mentoring at YRS or would like
to see if you can support us in some other way, drop me an email:
yrs@...
and/or come along to the event and we'll have a chat.

Cheers,

Tim

Re: An Introduction to Young Rewired State

Will you be promoting the free software philosophy at this event?

Regards,
Mike.
MFS Chair.

Tim Dobson wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
> 
> We're running an event on Thursday 8th July to introduce this years the
> next generation of coders and designers to Manchester's Young Rewired
> State event.
> 
> Young Rewired State is a decentralised, UK-wide, hack-week open to
> anyone aged 15 to 18 with an interest in data, coding or design.
> This year, it's the first week of August.
> 
> It's a great way for young people to learn what skills are needed for
> industry, make friends with people at the cutting edge of technology and
> perhaps, develop the next 'killer' app!
> 
> We're having an evening with Chris Taggart from OpenlyLocal to support
> the event and help shed some light on what open data actually is, what
> you can do with it and why that is cool.
> 
> You can find out more details and let us know you're coming here.
> http://yrsman10.eventbrite.com/
> 
> If you think you'd be interested helping mentoring at YRS or would like
> to see if you can support us in some other way, drop me an email:

Announcing the "Federation of Free Software UK

Announcing the "Federation of Free Software UK" (FFSUK):
<http://www.ffsuk.org.uk/>

Cheers,
Mike.

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Re: Announcing the "Federation of Free Software UK

On 05/07/10 06:59, Jon Spriggs wrote:
> I'm not a regular participant at MFS, nor do I even participate frequently
> on the mailing list, however, due to the company I work for and the clients
> we have, I would need to completely detach myself from this group if strong
> ties were created with groups such as the Anarchists Association - if only
> because of their name.

+1

Re: Announcing the "Federation of Free Software UK

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>> Announcing the "Federation of Free Software UK" (FFSUK):=20
>> <http://www.ffsuk.org.uk/>
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>> Cheers, Mike.
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> Excellent!I have been thinking that we should make inroads with the
> Anarchist Federation, some people in there already dig the free
> software philosophy and I think that attendance at a couple of their
> meetings could potentially yield new members and conceivably future
> joint events. The main question now is whether MFS is comfortable
> with the anarchist association? Luke

What? Is the Federation of Small Businesses an Anarchist group???
http://www.fsb.org.uk/

$ dict Federation
3 definitions found

=46rom The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcid=
e]:

  Federation \Fed`er*a"tion\, n. [Cf. F. f['e]d['e]ration.]
     1. The act of uniting in a league; confederation.
        [1913 Webster]

     2. A league; a confederacy; a federal or confederated
        government. --Burke.
        [1913 Webster]

=46rom WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  federation
       n 1: an organization formed by merging several groups or parties
       2: a union of political organizations [syn: {confederation},
{confederacy}]
       3: the act of constituting a political unity out of a number of
          separate states or colonies or provinces so that each
          member retains the management of its internal affairs

Cheers,
Mike.

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Re: Announcing the "Federation of Free Software UK

Michael Dorrington wrote:
> Luke Taylor wrote: 
> > Excellent!I have been thinking that we should make inroads with the
> > Anarchist Federation, some people in there already dig the free
> > software philosophy and I think that attendance at a couple of their
> > meetings could potentially yield new members and conceivably future
> > joint events. The main question now is whether MFS is comfortable
> > with the anarchist association? Luke
> 
> What? Is the Federation of Small Businesses an Anarchist group???
> http://www.fsb.org.uk/

As I understand it in the AF sense, Anarchism is simply the absence of
hierarchy (an-arch-ism), but the FSB is pretty hierarchical with
members under branches under committees under regions under committees
under the main FSB, so I'd say not.  http://www.fsb.org.uk/local-fsb

Personally, I think the problem with AF for FFSUK will be the
revolutionary communist association, not the anarchist one.
http://www.af-north.org/?q=aims+and+principles

So while there will probably be sympathies between the groups, some in
each will be opposed to formal links, so I wouldn't try.  Work together
if/when it suits and try to avoid either taking over the other.

I'll comment on the FFSUK on fsfe-uk when I get a mo.

Best wishes,
--

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Liverpool LUG Meeting - 7th July 2010

Liverpool Linux User Group Meeting - July 2010
Date Wed July 7th, 2010 from 7:00pm - 8:00pm
Location: Liverpool Social Centre, 96 Bold Street, Liverpool, England L1 4HY

Liverpool Linux User Group are a group of Linux and open source software
users that meet on the first Wednesday of the month. If no talk is organised
then we will usually organise a “open stage” for people to discuss projects,
current news, or just to rant.

Main Talk
Graeme Dyas will be giving a introduction to RRDTool and its many uses.

Open Stage
As per usual, time will be allocated to the end of the talk for anyone to
give a five minute talk on any subject. If you want some time just drop me a
mail or grab me on the day.

Doors are usually open before 7:00pm if people want to meet up in the
centre, The Liverpool Social Centre is two doors up from Forbidden Planet
and is the right-hand door at the front of “News From Nowhere”. Press the 
white doorbell for access (the one marked basement) and someone will come
up and open the door for you.

After any talks are finished will usually stay in the meeting area until
8:00pm then head out to a local pub, The pub varies from month to month and
usually depends on the size of the crowd. If you arrive late and unsure of
where we are then give one of the contacts a ring.

Website: http://livlug.org.uk/

	

Re: Announcing the "Federation of Free Software UK

> Personally, I think the problem with AF for FFSUK will be the
> revolutionary communist association, not the anarchist one.
> http://www.af-north.org/?q=aims+and+principles

...that and the fact that 99% of people rightly or wrongly associate  
the word "anarchism" with violent clashes between the BNF and Unite  
Against Fascism and windows getting smashed.

Philosophy is all well and good, but when you're trying to pitch to  
your boss why having Debian on the web box is beneficial to his  
business and profits, having the word "anarchism" mentioned anywhere  
in the business case is not going to do you any favours.

Me: "Free software is great because it has the latest features and  
security patches developed by a huge community rather than having to  
wait for a single-point-of-failure development house"
Boss: "I like it, have a pay rise"

Me: "Free software is great because together, comrades, we will use it  
to smash the oppressive forces of tyranny and overthrow the government  
with our iron fist of protest"
Boss: "Ummm, right, I've been meaning to have a chat with you about  
some redundancies we've got to make in the company"

Pete