[FM Discuss] FM meeting end of Sept/early October?

[mick fuzz]

We are applying for funds to facilitate a meeting of members of the Floss
Manuals community in Berlin late September early October 2011

This is a key meeting in the life of the Floss Manuals community as the
founding member, Adam Hyde, is looking to decentralize how the website and
community are run. To do this we need a face to face meeting to plan the
future of this vibrant and productive online community.

FLOSS Manuals is a collection of manuals about free and open source software
together with the tools used to create them and the community that uses
those tools. They include authors, editors, artists, software developers,
activists, and many others. There are manuals that explain how to install
and use a range of free and open source softwares, about how to do things
(like design) with open source software, and manuals about free culture
services that use or support free software and formats.

At this vital meeting we will look at some of the themes that have emerged
during the forging of the online community, these include;

* decentralizing maintenance and admin tasks and putting in place
documentation to facilitate this process
* evaluating and brainstorming about our organizational structure
* working out what funding is needed for core project worker/s and putting a
strategy in place to obtain it
* evaluating the scope of the current project and the interaction between
areas of paid and voluntary work
* audit of what current participants want from the site and what they are
willing to offer
* sharing knowledge about how to run a book sprint (for more info on
booksprints see http://www.booksprints.net)

We aim to keep the costs of the gathering low by choosing low-cost
accommodation and keeping food costs low. However due to the decentralised
and international nature of our community the majority of costs are likely
to be transport.

Our Estimated costs are

Accommodation
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Food
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Transport
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