Re: [Fsfe-uk] 13 April meeting?

[Richard Smedley]

Anne-Marie MAHFOUF wrote:
> 
> Could I have more precision about the meeting in London next saturday?
> (time and venue)

Hello Anne-Marie,

1pm Sat 13 April
BNP (Banque National de Paris) Paribas

address@hidden wrote:
> 
[snip]
> It's at 10 Harewood Avenue NW1,
> right next to Marylebone Station and also Baker Street tube.  Here's a map:
> 
> http://www.multimap.com/map/browse.cgi?client=europe&GridE=527466&GridN=182053&coordsys=gb&=&overviewmap=ap&lang
> =&width=700&client=europe&addr1=B+N+P+Paribas,
> +10&addr2=Harewood+Avenue&addr3=London&pc=NW1+6AA&db=ap&cname=Great+Britain&height=400&coordsys=gb&SUBMIT=Find
> 



Alex Hudson wrote:
> 
> Hmm, a day late with this (depending how you count the weekend ;),
> apols. Okay, this is how how I see the meeting going:
> 
>     * 13:00 - Arrival
>     * 13:15 - AFFS business, membership, event planning, etc.
>     * 14:45 - shortish break
>     * 15:00 - campaigns (patents, education, etc.)
>     * 17:00 - finish
> 
> All in all, about four hours, although obviously if you want to nip down
> the local arcade for a quick game of bust-a-move you can miss the bits
> you don't fancy. I've deliberately not gone into the whole after-meeting
> mess; perhaps the best bet would be to let those fancy journo types go
> off down their favourite haunt and leave the hoi polloi to the local
> spoon ;)
> 
> The division is fairly clear: AFFS business, and Campaigns (which may be
> AFFS oriented, but probably ought to be in conjuntion with other
> groups). In the time honoured tradition of mud-throwing, let's see what
> sticks to the wall out of this lot:
> 
> AFFS Business
> =============
> - Introductions: new people, etc. - who we are, who has met before, etc.
> - Reports: where we are now, how we got here - thinking finance,
> organisation, etc.
> - AFFS in the small
>  + discussion on membership and standing orders
>  + a logo for AFFS
>  + address@hidden
>  + association with the FSFE
> - Publicity/Media
>  + Advertising/magazine copy-on-demand
>  + Generating articles (i.e., "Why FS is a Good Thing")
>  + Free Software Magazine: do we want to do anything with this?
>  + Press Releases (related to affs-announce)
> - Events
>  + {Brum|London} Expo
>  + GNU Day
>  + Linux Install Day [?]
> - Community building & relations
>  + (related to PR: FSM, article generation, etc.)
>  + Free Software/Development directory & newssite for UK [?]
>  + (website / affs-announce)
>  + Free Software Award
>  + Making literature/advice available (single point of contact?)
>  + Institutional Web Manager Liason [?]
> 
> Campaigns
> =========
> [lobbying government goes without saying ...]
> - Free Software and Education
    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

:-)



>  + Report on Schoolforge.net liason
>  + Interaction with DfEE/Becta/Nesta
>  + Where now..
> - Free Software & Patents
>  + Current activities
>  + Interaction with DTi/Gov.
>  + Where now..
> - Copyright / Digital Rights
>  + Current activities
>  + Liason with CDR
>  + Where now..
> - Free Software & Business?
>  + DTi again.
> 


- Richard


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