Archive for March, 2009

Administrative Meeting – 6th April

Sunday, March 29th, 2009

The April administrative meeting is a little earlier this month due to Easter and is on Monday 6th, at the usual time and place:

The meeting is open to everyone. The meeting normally lasts about an hour and we stay around for a social meet up afterwards, so it’s a good opportunity to meet up with people and have a chat.

You can find the minutes of March’s meeting on the FSF Groups wiki. The agenda will be published closer to the time of the meeting.

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Free Software and Beyond: The World of Peer Production – The 4th Oekonux Conference

Saturday, March 14th, 2009

Date: 27 – 29 March 2009
Venue: University of Manchester

The Oekonux project, together with the P2P Foundation will have its
4th international conference which will take place on 27-29 March 2009
in Manchester, UK.

This conference, titled “Free Software and Beyond: The World of Peer
Production”, will allow delegates to share their experiences with
peer-to-peer collaborative activities in contemporary society,
including free and open source software development, Wikipedia,
blogosphere, open publishing, social networking, sharing platforms
such as Flickr and YouTube. Moreover, it will encourage delegates to
develop methods and theories for understanding how these activities
take place and their impacts on modern society.

Manchester Free Software will be there selling books and badges from the FSF.

The conference programme is now available at
http://www.oekonux-conference.org/program/index.html

The conference is free to attend and everyone is welcome. To register,
please visit http://www.oekonux-conference.org/registration.html

For more information please visit the conference website
http://www.oekonux-conference.org/

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John Adams, Waking up to an open world – 17th March

Tuesday, March 10th, 2009

John Adams will be giving a talk called “Waking up to an open world”. The talk is based on the one he recently gave to the Manchester Linux User Group. In it John outlines the roots of free software, using wide ranging examples including American anti-war protesters and their realisation that technology can liberate as well as enslave. The talk is a call to arms as well as showing what an open world could look like.

The meeting will take place at 19:00 in the Manchester Digital Development Agency on Portland Street. More about the meetings and venue can be found on our meetings page.

If you would like five minutes to tell us about something, please contact us.

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Administrative Meeting – 9th March

Monday, March 2nd, 2009

The March administrative meeting will be on the second Monday of the month at the usual time and place:

The meeting is open to everyone. The meeting normally lasts about an hour and we stay around for a social meet up afterwards, so it’s a good opportunity to meet up with people and have a chat.

You can find the minutes of February’s meeting on the FSF Groups wiki. The agenda will be published closer to the time of the meeting.

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