Re: [GeekUp] Manchester Free Software Meeting :: John Leech :: 15th April :: MDDA :: 7PM

Crikey, with all this BrightBox pimping  I'm going to have to step up  
to the plate with a talk, init!

-- Jamie
-- Engine Yard
-- Not BrightBox competition.  ;-)

On 8 Apr 2008, at 16:52, Tim Dobson wrote:
> Who?
> ====
>
> John Leech from Brightbox and Everyone Loves Eric Raymond
>
>
> Where?
> ======
>
> Manchester Digital Development Agency (MDDA)
> Portland Street
> Manchester
>
>
> Directions?
> ===========
>
> http://www.manchesterdda.com/directions/
>
>
> When?
> =====
>
> 7pm, Tuesday, 15th April.
>
> More info: http://manchester.fsuk.org
>
> If you're coming, please feel free to add yourself to the FSF Groups
> wiki page:-
>
> http://groups.fsf.org/index.php/Manchester/2008-04-15
>
>
> Lightening Talks
> ================
>
> We do have room for one, possibly two lightning talks, if you're
> interested please go to:
> http://groups.fsf.org/index.php/Manchester/2008-04-15 and sign up.
>
>
> This Month's Meeting
> ====================
>
> This month 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.
>
>
> About Manchester Free Software Group
> ====================================
>
> 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/
>
>
> Come and speak for us!
> ======================
>
> 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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