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Fwd: [Fwd: [GeekUp] Screenedit Sessions - 3rdDecember]

Dave Page — 2008-12-01T22:13:56

Forwarded for anybody who wants to bring down Microsoft by draining their financial reserves pint by pint... ----- Forwarded message from Tom Chiverton ----- Screenedit Sessions is an exciting, inspiring and FREE evening event for designers. The idea is simple: a gathering for anyone interested in design and UX technologies with some great presentations from leading agencies and designers. Creating compelling user experiences for the world's coolest brand, Splendid Leave the thoughts of plug-ins and technology stacks at the door, we want to talk to you about how we create a compelling user experience for the coolest brand in the world (that's official) going through real world experiences and showing you the outcome (with no acronyms used along the way) The Tricky Design Experience, Tricky Business People don't buy products, they buy experiences. Get the thoughts of Tricky on 'experience design' and the methods that his team have put into practice on digital projects for Audi, Alton Towers and John L Sco

Admin/Social Meeting next Monday

Lucy — 2008-12-01T19:39:00

The next administrative meeting is on Monday 8th December, starting at 7pm at the Marbella Cafe[1]. The meeting is expected to last about an hour and will be followed by the usual social meet (probably at a nearby pub). As usual, everyone is welcome to attend the meeting or to turn up afterwards.There are no prerequisites to the meetings, so please feel free to come along to say 'hi' and to see what it's all about (and to sample the great food!). The agenda will be going up on the wiki shortly. If there's anything you want brought up at the meeting please let us know. The agenda and minutes will appear as usual at http://groups.fsf.org/index.php/Manchester/Meetings#Administrative_Meetings. Lucy [1] http://marbellacupcakes.com/contact.html

Nominations for treasurer: results

Lucy — 2008-12-01T19:36:04

The nomination period has ended, and we have one nomination for treasurer: Matthew Morten. He has accepted the nomination, which means there is no need to continue the election process. Therefore, I'm happy to announce that from 8th December the new treasurer of Manchester Free Software will be Matthew. Matthew has become increasingly involved with MFS, he has been a regular attendee and contributor at admin meetings and has plenty of financial experience. I'm sure that he will make an excellent treasurer. Lucy

ManLUG Social: Fri 5 Dec

Paul Waring — 2008-11-29T11:05:06

As usual for the first Friday of the month, a group of us from ManLUG (and various other geek groups) will be going out for a curry and some drinks on Friday 5th December. We'll be meeting in our usual venue of Hardy's Well pub[1], Rusholme, from 7:30pm and then heading off for a meal after a couple of drinks. If you haven't been before, one of us will usually be wearing a geek t-shirt of some description, so we should be fairly easy to spot, and we'll be looking out for people anyway. See you there! Paul [1] http://www.beerintheevening.com/pubs/s/20/2009/Hardys_Well/Rusholme P.S. There's also a web site where the details of socials are announced: http://www.manlug.org.uk

[nwdc] Fly The Coop needs your users

Simon Ward — 2008-11-29T09:01:17

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Reminder: Nominations for treasurer

Lucy — 2008-11-28T11:48:22

I would just like to remind people that nominations are still open for the position of treasurer and will close at midnight on Sunday. So far we have had one nomination (as far as I know). Does anyone else want to step forward? 2008/11/16 Lucy public.gmane.org>: [snip] [snip]

Re: University of Sheffield Free Software SocietyIntro

Lucy — 2008-11-27T09:35:29

2008/11/25 Chris Warburton public.gmane.org>: Hi Chris, I'm glad you've signed up to the mailing list. It sounds like you've done a great job with the FSS and I hope we can work together in future. Did you see the email I sent a few days ago about the workshop on Saturday? You're welcome to come down and have a look (and maybe help out). I think there may be free food and it's not a million miles away from the Access Space project in Sheffield. Lucy

Re: Using Google Calendar

Lucy — 2008-11-26T12:18:58

Just to clarify, in case anyone gets confused, the calendar would be for Manchester Free Software only and not the FSUK (unfortunately, this doesn't really exist as an organisation at the moment).

Re: Using Google Calendar

David Greaves — 2008-11-26T12:18:28

There are quite a few javascript and php calendar apps - what would be great is simple javascript iCal 'list' viewer but I didn't find one of them :( http://www.javascript-examples.com/javascript-calendars/ http://keith-wood.name/icalendar.html Taking a big solution and cutting it down and then using any iCal publishing service to provide a dynamic list of events on a 'community' page would be great for a lot of small groups. David

Re: Using Google Calendar

Lucy — 2008-11-26T12:17:33

2008/11/26 Matthew Larsen public.gmane.org>: I think you misunderstand slightly. The original question was about the backend application used to store the dates, and whether it should be free. I think we've established that there are several free wordpress plugins that will do the job nicely without having to resort to non-free software. It's interesting to see what people think about the issue though. I'm glad you like the idea of a calendar generally and if it helps keep people up to date with the activities of MFS then that's a good thing.

Re: Using Google Calendar

Matthew Larsen — 2008-11-26T11:44:02

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Re: Re: [Wylug-discuss] Does anybody know...

John McKerrell — 2008-11-26T09:18:09

A few friends of mine run Isotoma - http://www.isotoma.com/ They describe themselves as "Open Source Software Consulting" and do most of their stuff using Python on Linux. I think they've also released some of the stuff they've built, though I don't see anything on their site after a quick scan. Let me know if you want me to put them in contact with someone. John On 26 Nov 2008, at 00:41, Simon Ward wrote:

Re: [Wylug-discuss] Does anybody know...

Simon Ward — 2008-11-26T00:41:42

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Re: Using Google Calendar

David Greaves — 2008-11-25T23:34:12

Have you seen ukfsn.org http://ukfsn.org/ Free hosting for open source projects. All profits go to open source projects (and he publishes the books AFAIK). http://ukfsn.org/profits.html David (Yes I use UKFSN as my ISP)

Re: Using Google Calendar

Tim Dobson — 2008-11-25T21:59:10

Matt will probably recommend other things but nevertheless: Require own domain: (either purchase or transfer) http://www.dreamcreators.co.uk/ # 1GB< at >2.99/month 3GB< at >5.99/month etc. however unfortunately the owner[1] still uses non-free cpanel depite me trying to get him to offer a free alternative like: http://www.gplhost.com/software-dtc.html On the other hand, I can offer email,shell and web hosting with 3GB of space and a reasonable amount of bandwidth < at > £4.50/month or different packages on negotiation. The machine the account would be on is a bytemark VPS running a completely free copy of Debian GNU/Linux with plenty of resources to handle the load. :) I can setup the webmail, if this is required, free of charge. I can also resell bags and bags of bandwidth from mediatemple but I doubt anyone needs a "high bandwidth" email account! ;) Well, anyway, those are my recommendations, none of them off :) Of course, none of these DiY things I have just suggested are anything as like as neat as what

Re: Using Google Calendar

Lucy — 2008-11-25T20:07:19

I can't see whether it does iCal at all? Now that I've had time to look, I did find Event Calendar (no 's') at http://wpcal.firetree.net/

Re: Using Google Calendar

Lucy — 2008-11-25T19:51:08

Can you recommend something?

Re: Using Google Calendar

Simon Ward — 2008-11-25T18:08:05

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Re: Using Google Calendar

Steven Flower — 2008-11-25T17:23:18

Hi All Would this be the calendar plug-in for wordpress ? http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/events-calendar/ Thanks Steven Matt Lee wrote:

Re: Using Google Calendar

Matt Lee — 2008-11-25T16:53:54

Why does it have to be no money? Would you pay 5 pounds a month for a free email setup?

Re: Using Google Calendar

Ben Webb — 2008-11-25T16:45:35

"...Ben Webb[2] was interviewed[3] on the Freedom Socks Podcast[4]" Yup, I got interviewed on my own podcast xD. 2008/11/25 Lucy public.gmane.org>: Roundcube lacks a lot of nice gmail stuff, like conversation view. AGPLMail is, afaik, the only thing close to a complete GMail clone. It's getting quite functional, but it still lacks some features. The hardest thing is using your new email adress for everything. I plan to make the transition properly myself some time soon. I'm considering getting it started now. But it may be a while before any of the services are stable enough for everyday use. The biggest thing I need to get started is a good name. See here for my thoughts so far - http://freedomdreams.co.uk/wiki/Freedom_Apps - I'd love suggestions if anyone has any.