There were six people at the July 10th meeting in Brussels. From my notes,
the main things we discussed were:
* People thought the idea of quarterly, Sunday afternoon meetings was good.
* Making a repository of arguments for free software advocates broken down
by context (school or government or small company or charity) and also by
mindset (talking to businesses, free culture folk, politicians). This
will probably be worked on after the technical work is finished on
improving the fsfe.org site.
* Should we have a single Belgian meeting or two regional meetings. Having
meetings in people's first language, instead of English, might increase
participation. On the other hand, location becomes quite complicated.
Flanders doesn't have a centre (Gent? Antwerp?). Namur is kinda central
in Wallonia, but it's over an hour from Brussels by train.
* We talked about related topics such as OpenStreetMap and OpenMoko.
* We talked about the internal structure of FSFE. I think this came up
because we were discussing the soon-to-be-announced closer relationship
between the Fellowship and FSFE.
* Ways of making the Fellowship more affordable, without reducing the
financial support it provides for FSFE. Such as adding a box to the
sign-up form so that Fellows can choose to pay double their Fellowship fee
and thus "sponsor" someone else who wants to become a Fellow but thinks
the price is too high.
And other topics people raised. In general it was a relaxed night, just
talking about recent free software news. I think it was quite good to meet
people in person, so I hope to see people again on August 7th.
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Ciarán O'Riordan, +32 477 36 44 19, http://ciaran.compsoc.com/
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