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

[mick fuzz]

Sorry -  I posted that without comment - I had some spare time so I started
an application - this is as far as I got.
There don't seem to be wordcount guidelines on that site - or at least I
couldn't find any.

Maybe I missed something. Adam do you know any more?
Mick




>
> 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
> ????
>
> Food
> ????
>
> Transport
> ???
>
>


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