FSUK-Manchester - Tuesday March 18th 2008 - Meeting information - Alex Hudson

Manchester Free Software was formed in response to a growing
apparent need for a group based in the Manchester area that
focuses on Free Software and GNU/Linux primarily, but also
on issues such as Digital Restrictions Management and other
issues which infringe on the freedoms of computer users.

All our meetings take place at Manchester Digital
Development Agency (MDDA), on Portland Street.

http://www.manchesterdda.com/directions/

February 2008
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If you are interested in seeing February's lively talk by Stuart 
Langbridge, feel free to download the video from www.fsba.eu/video.html

March 2008
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The next meeting will be Tuesday March 18th 2008 (Today!), when Alex 
Hudson from Bongo Project will be joining us. He's likely be talking
about freeing proprietary software and the control of free
software projects.

Alex Hudson is an established UK-based free software author
and supporter. As well as being involved in anti-software
patent activity in the UK, and free software issues in
Europe generally, he is also leads the Bongo Project,
bringing excitement and va-va-voom to free software mail and
calendaring. Apparently, he doesn't like the word "groupware".

If you're coming to the meeting, please let us know by
signing up at: http://tiny.pl/4r87

April 2008
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We have John Leach coming to tell us all about the history,
life and times of Everybody Loves Eric Raymond, and talking
about his new free software hosting outfit, Brightbox, which
hosts Ruby on Rails web apps.

John Leach is a free software hacker from Leeds. He is the
creator of the web comic, Everybody Loves Eric Raymond,
which stars Richard Stallman, Linus Torvalds and Eric
Raymond living in a house somewhere for some reason. As
Richard Stallman said "It is funny, but I'm disappointed
that it accentuates the shallow."

Random free software fact: John Leach is able to draw by
harnessing the power of economic coercion and forcing it
into his USB port.

Come and speak for us!
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If you've got a project and you'd like to talk for 15 mins,
30 mins or even up to an hour about it, let us know.

Hope to see you soon.

-- 
Tim Dobson

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www.blog.tdobson.net
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If each of us have one object, and we exchange them, then each of us
still has one object.
If each of us have one idea, and we exchange them, then each of us now
has two ideas.   -  George Bernard Shaw