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Re: Anyone for a Friday pre-Koreana drink?

Matt Lee — 2013-05-16T13:07:39

I can vouch that despite his strong convictions on the list, MJ is
actually a very decent person to go for a pint with.

I just hope I can be in Manchester sometime soon...

Anyone for a Friday pre-Koreana drink?

MJ Ray — 2013-05-16T08:17:10

Right, as I think I mentioned before, I'll be in Manchester this
Friday for the Co-operative Group's Annual Meeting and I don't mind
discussing this trip on list, as my participation is already published.

Sadly, I can't go to KoreaBeer at 7 because activities at Miller St
start at half-7, but if anyone would like to meet for a drink just
before (5.30?) and maybe talk about co-ops and FOSS projects (or real
ale), then please reply to this email.  Otherwise, I'll go for a drink
with other co-op members.

Alternatively, we could grab a coffee near Piccadilly as I leave, just
after 4 on Saturday.  Again, just reply to this mail somehow.

Best wishes,

MFS Meeting: Tuesday 21st May

Bob Ham — 2013-05-15T20:04:58

Please feel free to forward this to those that would welcome it.

* Event: Manchester Free Software monthly meeting
* Location: Madlab. (Manchester Digital Laboratory).
* Address: 36-40 Edge Street, Manchester. M4 1HN.
  "(Between Thomas St and the Craft Centre, opposite A Bar Called Common)"
  http://madlab.org.uk/
* Date: Tuesday, 21st May 2013 (3rd Tuesday of the month)
* Start time: 19:00


Details
-------
The next Manchester Free Software meeting will take place on the 21st
May at Madlab.  This month there is no talk scheduled but lightning
talks are welcome.  After any talks, we will move to the pub.


Location
--------
The meeting will take place at the usual time, 7pm, at Madlab on Edge
Street in the Northern Quarter.  “(Between Thomas St and the Craft
Centre, opposite A Bar Called Common)”.  The venue provides wifi.  The
meeting is followed by an informal discussion in the bar opposite (A
Place Called Common <http://www.aplacecalledcommon.co.uk/>).


Transport
---------
Parking: Around the venue

Fri 17 May: KoreaBeer geek social

Paul Waring — 2013-05-04T08:33:58

On Friday 17 May a number of us from various geek groups will be going 
for a Korean food social at Koreana on King Street West (just off 
Deansgate). We'll be meeting outside the restaurant just before 7pm and 
going straight in for a meal.

http://www.koreana.co.uk/

There's a set banquet for around £20/head to give a rough idea of the 
costs - full menu is on the website.

Everyone is welcome to attend, but if you would like to come please 
email me by 6pm, Wednesday 15 May so that I can book for the correct number.

Hope to see you there!

Paul

FSF-certified USB Wi-Fi adapter

Bob Ham — 2013-05-01T17:51:24

Hi all,

Apparently the FSF has now certified a USB Wi-Fi dongle in their
Respects Your Freedom program:

http://www.fsf.org/news/ryf-certification-thinkpenguin-usb-with-atheros-chip

This is great news; the only other bit of hardware that's been certified
is a 3D printer.  Apparently, Think Penguin worked with some sympathetic
engineers in Qualcomm who pushed to get the firmware released.  Win! :-)

Think Penguin is a company that makes laptops intended to work with Free
System Distributions (some may recall I mentioned them in my talk on a
100% free software laptop).

Here's the actual dongle, the TPE-N150USB based on the Atheros AR9271
chipset:

https://www.thinkpenguin.com/gnu-linux/penguin-wireless-n-usb-adapter-gnu-linux-tpe-n150usb


Bob :-)

Fri 3 May: Currybeer social

Paul Waring — 2013-04-27T13:05:59

On Friday 3rd May, a number of us from various geek groups will be going 
out for a curry and some drinks. We'll be meeting in our usual venue of 
Hardy's Well pub at the end of Rusholme from 7pm and moving on to a 
nearby curry house after a drink or two - usually this means by 8pm at 
the latest.

Everyone is welcome to attend, so please feel free to forward this email 
to other lists and drop me an email off-list if you want a contact 
number for the evening.

Hope to see you there!

Paul

P.S. You can always find details of upcoming socials at the Currybeer 
web site, where there is also a Google Calendar.

http://www.currybeer.com

SoC GPU driver interview

Bob Ham — 2013-04-26T09:47:55

Hi all,

Here's an interesting interview with a number of people working on free 
drivers for ARM-based GPUs:

   
http://blog.emmanueldeloget.com/index.php?post/2013/03/08/The-SoC-GPU-driver-interview


I am totally offended that nobody in the PowerVR project was asked for 
their views but it's a good interview nonetheless ;-)

Bob

Underemployment survey

Phoebe Moore — 2013-04-25T09:31:39

Dear all

I have met a few of you and you know at this point that I'm conducting
research into working conditions for people in the IT and computing
industry, taking a critical view of the often underemployment and related
health issues that the industry potentially can be held responsible for.

In this light, I have created the following survey which reflects the
surveys I have given some of you in person as well as held short
interviews:

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/LYCX5MZ

If you can take three minutes of your time to complete these ten short
questions, I would really appreciate it very much! The survey is anonymous
so it will be hard for me to 'buy you a drink' but I will come to the next
FSUK event with home baked brownies!

:)

Yours, Phoebe

*Twitter < at >phoebemoore*
*Facebook phoebevmoore*
*Blog http://hub.salford.ac.uk/phoebemoore/*
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Re: Hardware Freedom Day 2013 in Manchester

Michael Dorrington — 2013-04-21T11:17:16

Thanks to all those that attended yesterday and extra thanks for those
that got involved in the discussions.

And special thanks/credit to Bob Clough, Bob Ham, Roy Evison and Daniel
Botting for helping with running event.

While looking at Andrew “bunnie” Huang's blog I noticed that he has
released "Hacking the Xbox" for zero price (and its under a CC licence):
http://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=3012
http://nostarch.com/xboxfree

As seen on the HACMan tour, if you want to start building some Free
Hardware then I recommend getting involved with HACMan
<http://hacman.org.uk/>.

Happy Hacking!
Mike.

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Reminder: MFS Meeting: Tuesday 16th April

Bob Ham — 2013-04-16T13:10:12

This meeting is tonight.

On 2013-04-11 13:06, Bob Ham wrote:
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MFS Meeting: Tuesday 16th April

Bob Ham — 2013-04-11T13:06:00

Please feel free to forward this to those that would welcome it.

* Event: Manchester Free Software monthly meeting
* Location: Madlab. (Manchester Digital Laboratory).
* Address: 36-40 Edge Street, Manchester. M4 1HN.
  "(Between Thomas St and the Craft Centre, opposite A Bar Called Common)"
  http://madlab.org.uk/
* Date: Tuesday, 16th April 2013 (3rd Tuesday of the month)
* Start time: 19:00


Details
-------
The next Manchester Free Software meeting will take place on the 16th
April at Madlab.  This month there is no talk scheduled but lightning
talks are welcome.  After any talks, we will move to the pub.


Location
--------
The meeting will take place at the usual time, 7pm, at Madlab on Edge
Street in the Northern Quarter.  “(Between Thomas St and the Craft
Centre, opposite A Bar Called Common)”.  The venue provides wifi.  The
meeting is followed by an informal discussion in the bar opposite (A
Place Called Common <http://www.aplacecalledcommon.co.uk/>).


Transport
---------
Parking: Around the v

UCubed 2013 on Sunday 21st April at Madlab

Chris Wilson — 2013-04-11T12:15:25

Hey there,

UCubed, the Ubuntu and upstream unconference will be held at Madlab on
Sunday 21st April from 10am to 4pm, and I was hoping there were a few
people in Manchester's free software community who would be interested in
attending. While Ubuntu doesn't have a policy towards being a free software
system, a large quantity of free software is distributed through it, so I'm
hoping there will be some areas of common interest :)

The event page can be found here <http://ucubed2013.eventbrite.co.uk/>, and
the format will be much the same as in previous years (i.e. typical
unconference), so if anyone of you would like to come along and talk about
free software, or really anything else interesting, then grab yourself a
ticket and drop by next Sunday.

Hoping to see some of you there,
Chris
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Re: Fsuk-manchester Digest, Vol 70, Issue 3

CCE — 2013-04-10T17:43:23

Hi all,

I just came across this interesting article on the free software/culture
movement which I would like to share.

http://links.org.au/node/2094

 It suggests that the Linux Project, the free software/culture movement
is the beginning of a new mode of production.

Thoughts?

Chris


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MediaGoblin joins GNOME Outreach Program for Women and Google Summer of Code 2013

Michael Dorrington — 2013-04-09T19:26:42

If your interested in getting paid to do some Free Software coding this
Summer then have a look at:
http://mediagoblin.org/news/opw-gsoc-2013.html

FSF says "GNU MediaGoblin offers what you've been missing in an Internet
media-sharing system"
<http://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/gnu-mediagoblin-offers-what-youve-been-missing-in-an-internet-media-sharing-system>.

It would be good to have a talk on MediaGoblin, anyone want to do this?

Regards,
Mike.

Hardware Freedom Day 2013 in Manchester

Michael Dorrington — 2013-04-09T18:30:52

Please feel free to forward this to those that would welcome it.

* Event: Hardware Freedom Day 2013 in Manchester
  http://hfday.org/
  http://wiki.hfday.org/2013/UK/Manchester/Manchester

* Location: Madlab. (Manchester Digital Laboratory).
* Address: 36-40 Edge Street, Manchester. M4 1HN.
"(Between Thomas St and the Craft Centre, opposite A Bar Called Common)"
  http://madlab.org.uk/
* Date: Saturday, 20th April 2013 (3rd Saturday in April)
* Start time: 14:00
* Finish time: 17:00

Details
-------
Hardware Freedom Day is an annual world wide celebration of Free
Hardware <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Hardware> with the aim of
promoting Hardware Freedom to everyone.  This year the event lands on
Saturday, 20th April.  You can see the teams around the world that will
be participating on the HFD 2013 Events Map
<http://www.hfday.org/map/index.php?year=2013>.  This includes
Manchester, UK!

The event will be a chance to discuss, show and see Free Hardware.  The
following topics are for discussion (but oth

Re: Next meeting(s)?

Bob Ham — 2013-04-09T08:22:25


Hi Dan,

Manchester Free Software meetings are always on the third Tuesday of 
the month, at 7.00pm in Madlab.  The next meeting is on the 16th of 
April, a week today.  There is no talk scheduled but lightning talks are 
welcome.

Regards,

Bob

Re: Talking about non-free software on the list

Quiliro Ordóñez — 2013-04-09T05:18:49

El 08/04/13 08:57, Bob Ham escribió:

How can a software be free (as in freedom) and the users not be free?

Next meeting(s)?

Dan Dart — 2013-04-08T20:09:00

Ahoy all,

When are the next meetings and what do they cover?

Cheers
Dan
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Re: Talking about non-free software on the list

Bob Ham — 2013-04-08T13:57:49

Precisely.  Here, I'm describing A as "not free" meaning its users have 
their freedom curtailed, as opposed to the licensing of A not allowing 
the four freedoms.  I specifically avoided describing A as "non-free".

Perhaps a better phrasing would be "the users of A are not free".

Fri 19 Apr: ThaiBeer geek social

Paul Waring — 2013-04-07T13:03:25

On Friday 19 April a number of us from various geek groups will be going 
for some thai food at Siam Orchid on Portland Street. We'll be meeting 
outside the restaurant just before 7pm and going straight in for a meal, 
followed by drinks at a nearby pub.

http://www.siamorchidrestaurant.co.uk/

There is a menu on the web site with full costs, but expect £25-30 per 
head, depending on which options people choose and how many beverages 
are consumed.

The event is open to all but I need to book a table, so please let me 
know by email (paul-AhP4oNs1KLk< at >public.gmane.org) if you would like to attend. The deadline 
for booking is 6pm, Wednesday 17 April.

Hope to see you there!

Paul

Re: Org Con North coming up in a couple of weeks please help spread the word¬

m3shrom — 2013-03-30T14:34:30

There is a lot of room for unconference sessions here.
It would be great to see input from Manchester based Free Software
groups methinks. I'm sure they would be very welcome.

The programme is here -
http://www.openrightsgroup.org/events/2013/org-con-north/
nice one
Mick

On 30/03/13 14:07, m3shrom wrote: