In attendance: Aidan Delaney Glenn Strong David Cathcart David Barrett Stephen Howell Malcolm Tyrrell Ciaran O'Riordan
Today's meeting was disorganised, so we've decided to hold another meeting next week, probably next tuesday (July 27th). The venue will have to be confirmed, but details will be posted to fsfe-ie, probably today (wednesday 21st).
Some people had to leave early, so we squeezed the official business into a few minutes, and decided we'd confirm or redebate it at the next meeting.
Minutes: * How should IFSO recognise donors? => we should have a "thanks" section on the website, and donors should be grouped i.e. 1-100 euro, 101-250, ... (the actual grouping has yet to be discussed).
* How often should accounts and financial info be published? => Once a year, at or just before the AGM, before committee elections.
* When should IFSO apply to become official associates of FSFE? => Some time this year, no rush. Maybe we should make a big deal (read: press release) about it.
* Software Freedom Day, what should we do? => No one present supported the idea of handing out CDs on Grafton St. Many takers would just bin them. There was also no support for handing out CDs in business districts - fear of viruses would prevent people from using them. Handing out leaflets often needs a permit, and very few takers will be interested when they see what they took.
=> We should do something though, and to get started we should sign up as a team on softwarefreedomday.org
=> IFSO t-shirts? 6 euro for low quality t-shirts (any colour) with one colour print (any one colour). Could be okay - other prices are being looked for.
* Organising Events: => Should we go for one conference (multiple speakers), or multiple (2-4) talks with one speaker? There was a lot of discussion about how to organise a conference, but I don't think anyone was behind it by the end. I pushed the multiple talks idea, suggestions being Eben Moglen, Georg Greve, Hartmut Pilch, and Alan Cox. The goal being to get free software users (LUGers, lurkers, etc.) interested in helping IFSO.
=> Malcolm was also interested in events aimed at software users who are probably not currently aware of free software.
* Promoting Free Software: => Get people to sign up as IFSO members at freshers week in college? nope, colleges wouldn't let us do that.
=> Get our Live CD put into college (or netsoc?) welcome packs? yes, but who's going to burn all the CDs? We have one offer of mass CD burning which we'll look into, and we'll price other options.
=> We should ask Intersocs, or various individual Socs, if we can work together on some of these things.
End of minutes. Next meeting in about 7 days time with similar agenda.