[FM Discuss] FM meeting end of Sept/early October?
Elisa Godoy de Castro Guerra
elisa.dcg at gmail.com
Mon Aug 8 11:30:32 PDT 2011
Hi,
Adam have think at this place
http://www.holiday-rentals.co.uk/p531786
Elisa from Paris, France
2011/8/8 Janet Swisher <jmswisher at gmail.com>
> On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 3:49 AM, adam <adam at flossmanuals.net> wrote:
> >
> >
> > 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.
> >>
> >> 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?
> >
>
> 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
>
>
> >
> >>>
> >>> 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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