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

[adam]

On 08/04/2011 08:00 PM, mick fuzz wrote:
> 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.
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> Maybe I missed something. Adam do you know any more?


good work mick...

anyone else want to add anything? anyone want to put some $ to the budget?

adam


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>> 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.
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>> 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.
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>> At this vital meeting we will look at some of the themes that have emerged
>> during the forging of the online community, these include;
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>> * 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)
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>> 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.
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>> Our Estimated costs are
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>> Accommodation
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>> Food
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>> Transport
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