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

[Janet Swisher]

On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 3:49 AM, adam <adam at flossmanuals.net> wrote:
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> On 08/04/2011 08:00 PM, mick fuzz wrote:
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>> 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?
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> good work mick...
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> anyone else want to add anything? anyone want to put some $ to the budget?
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It's hard to put numbers to the budget without knowing how many people
are coming, and from where, and where they'll be staying. I have no
idea of the going rates for food and accommodation in Berlin. Do we
have figures for previous sprints in Berlin, or from the meeting in
Amsterdam?

--Janet


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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.
>>>
>>> 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
>>> ????
>>>
>>> Transport
>>> ???
>>>
>>>
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