Hi all.

January's IFSO meeting is tomorrow evening. You'll find us in the Long Stone at 20h00: http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=53.345979&lon=-6.256133&zoom=18&am...

Here's the proposed agenda:

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Discuss response to our 'free software as part of education computer budget' letter, and decide on next steps.

Put the stop-software-patents banner on the IFSO site?

Throwing IFSO's mighty weight behind the task of gathering 1,000,000 signatures for a legislative-proposal petition.

(Possible intersection SWpat/education as in Ciaran's email of 2009-11-23.)

Recent enquiry concerning legality of charging for Free Software.

Do we need to start thinking about rustling up an AGM?

Consider whether we can do something with the information that Brian dug out ages ago about libraries offering computer skills courses, and can we at least make them aware of the possibility of using free software to do so.

Ben visited the Young Scientists exhibition and saw quite a lot of Free Software in use. Could we dig into this more and/or include in further letter re the education funding?

The German government recently advised its citizens not to use Internet Explorer. Should be write to somebody suitable in the Irish government and/or the press, advising the same? http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8463516.stm

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Malcolm