Hi,<br><br>Adam have think at this place <br><a href="http://www.holiday-rentals.co.uk/p531786">http://www.holiday-rentals.co.uk/p531786</a><br><br>Elisa from Paris, France<br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2011/8/8 Janet Swisher <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jmswisher@gmail.com">jmswisher@gmail.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im">On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 3:49 AM, adam <<a href="mailto:adam@flossmanuals.net">adam@flossmanuals.net</a>> wrote:<br>
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> On 08/04/2011 08:00 PM, mick fuzz wrote:<br>
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>> Sorry - I posted that without comment - I had some spare time so I<br>
>> started<br>
>> an application - this is as far as I got.<br>
>> There don't seem to be wordcount guidelines on that site - or at least I<br>
>> couldn't find any.<br>
>><br>
>> Maybe I missed something. Adam do you know any more?<br>
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> good work mick...<br>
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> anyone else want to add anything? anyone want to put some $ to the budget?<br>
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</div>It's hard to put numbers to the budget without knowing how many people<br>
are coming, and from where, and where they'll be staying. I have no<br>
idea of the going rates for food and accommodation in Berlin. Do we<br>
have figures for previous sprints in Berlin, or from the meeting in<br>
Amsterdam?<br>
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--Janet<br>
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>>><br>
>>> This is a key meeting in the life of the Floss Manuals community as the<br>
>>> founding member, Adam Hyde, is looking to decentralize how the website<br>
>>> and<br>
>>> community are run. To do this we need a face to face meeting to plan the<br>
>>> future of this vibrant and productive online community.<br>
>>><br>
>>> FLOSS Manuals is a collection of manuals about free and open source<br>
>>> software together with the tools used to create them and the community<br>
>>> that<br>
>>> uses those tools. They include authors, editors, artists, software<br>
>>> developers, activists, and many others. There are manuals that explain<br>
>>> how<br>
>>> to install and use a range of free and open source softwares, about how<br>
>>> to<br>
>>> do things (like design) with open source software, and manuals about free<br>
>>> culture services that use or support free software and formats.<br>
>>><br>
>>> At this vital meeting we will look at some of the themes that have<br>
>>> emerged<br>
>>> during the forging of the online community, these include;<br>
>>><br>
>>> * decentralizing maintenance and admin tasks and putting in place<br>
>>> documentation to facilitate this process<br>
>>> * evaluating and brainstorming about our organizational structure<br>
>>> * working out what funding is needed for core project worker/s and<br>
>>> putting<br>
>>> a strategy in place to obtain it<br>
>>> * evaluating the scope of the current project and the interaction between<br>
>>> areas of paid and voluntary work<br>
>>> * audit of what current participants want from the site and what they are<br>
>>> willing to offer<br>
>>> * sharing knowledge about how to run a book sprint (for more info on<br>
>>> booksprints see <a href="http://www.booksprints.net" target="_blank">http://www.booksprints.net</a>)<br>
>>><br>
>>> We aim to keep the costs of the gathering low by choosing low-cost<br>
>>> accommodation and keeping food costs low. However due to the<br>
>>> decentralised<br>
>>> and international nature of our community the majority of costs are<br>
>>> likely<br>
>>> to be transport.<br>
>>><br>
>>> Our Estimated costs are<br>
>>><br>
>>> Accommodation<br>
>>> ????<br>
>>><br>
>>> Food<br>
>>> ????<br>
>>><br>
>>> Transport<br>
>>> ???<br>
>>><br>
>>><br>
>><br>
>><br>
>><br>
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