Open Meeting: Sun 3rd Oct

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The meeting will be at 5pm Upstairs in the reading room at rampART.

The address for rampART : 15-17 Rampart Street, London E1 2LA, Nearest tube Shadwell.


1:' Hacklabbers in attendance

2: Apologies

3:' Previous Minutes and the matters arising from them.

4:' Agenda

  • Finances ( ins/outs ) & future funding
  • Bank Account
  • Possible official opening event
  • Publicity and leaflet
  • Presence at the Anarchist Bookfair
  • Support for new AxtiviX server
  • Presence at the European Social Forum alternative spaces in London
    • Camden centre IMC
    • IMC / alt media facilities Beyond ESF, North Middlesex Uni campus
    • ramparts social centre will be an IMC / alt media access point for the esf as well
  • Presence in other trans-national networks - liaisons etc
  • Commiting to once-monthly meetings on which day of month? (e.g. 1st Sunday of each month)
  • Website 



  ( Please feel free to add your own agenda points above )

5: Date/Lineup for next benefit.

6: Date/Agenda for next meeting.

7:' Any Other Business.

8: Type up and mail the minutes to the list/update the wiki. 



  ''''''''Minutes of this meeting are as follows'''''

( please add or adjust any details missed )


1:' Hacklabbers in attendance 

      Reuben, Sash, Antonio, Chris, Ana, John, Ben, Asa.

2: Apologies 

      None.

3:' Previous Minutes and the matters arising from them. 

      No one brought the minutes from previous meeting.

4:' Agenda

  • Finances ( ins/outs ) & future funding

Out: internet, �22.50 a month. We have paid already about 7 months worth of internet. Out: rent, or weekly donation to the bookshop.

Looks like we have two options: do we want to support the bookshop, or do we want to build a social and technical space? The general feeling is that we want the bookshop to go on existing, it is great that it is there, but we don't want to raise money for freedom as our main activity. But we are happy to stay in the bookshop if possible. It is not the hacklab's responsibility to make the bookshop run, we are not a business and do not want to be. To suggest to the bookshop to turn the downstairs space into a cafe if they need to raise money from whatever room is available in the building. Another possibility is to offer them every thing that is in the room used by the hacklab right now, so that it can be turned into an internet cafe, and then this internet cafe would be just one of the hacklabs projects, but the 'ownership' of the place would be with the bookshop and we would be volunteers helping out in that room.

It is proposed and accepted that we go on as we are now until November. In their meeting then we give them all donations collected and they will decide if that money is enough for them. If it is not, we offer them the space as described above, if this doesn't satisfy them either we look for somewhere else.

IN: Benefits: Do we do more?It was decided before the summer not to do 

   any more benefits until september or so; we now decide to extend this 
   and not run any benefits until further notice, when a project comes 
   along and we need the money for something in particular.

IN: Services to businesses: Reuben to investigate the possibility to 

   run some wifi and offer it to close-by businesses.
  • Bank Account

Do we need one? No, since we can pay the broadband via the person who set it up and we don't expect regular income.

  • Possible official opening event

we can not open yet. We need to get rid of EVERYTHING that is not strictly useful to have it open to the public. We need to get rid of the printers, keeping only one pinter in the bookshop. Need to arrange this.

Also need to create a list of what can get out of the hacklab, and where to offer it � and actually offer computers out. Things not immediately needed can be stored temporarily in Rampart. Other possibilities are ComputerAid, Crisis... to give them what we do not need... would probably have to pay for transport and the actual disposal of useless material. Ben, John and Ana will investigate their own proposals.

  • Publicity and leaflet

We can produce literature to put where we do things: hacklab leaflets and posters. Need a text for leaflet to show whenever a group of people from the hacklab is involved in various project as is the case at present with the ESF.

  • Presence at the Anarchist Bookfair

It is on the 27th of November. First we had an idea to do a talk but this costs too much money, we can't afford it. We will share a table with indymedia and put leaflets, cds and poster. Idea to take broken computers as our 'brand'.

  • Support for new AxtiviX server

Proposal to put up a benefit for them. We need to find a venue for this. We also know about projects that need server spaces, we can put them in contact with aktivix. We can also offer them help with documentation...

  • Presence at the European Social Forum alternative spaces in London

The information is out there and every one who wants to get involved in the ESF is already involved. We need a stalk of leaflets to put on the spaces, about 100 A5s. We can do talks on OSS, workshops about the hack movement, either in Camden Centre or the University. We will be giving out free software CDs too.

  • Presence in other trans-national networks - liaisons etc

We do not feel the need to do this formally.

  • Commiting to once-monthly meetings on which day of month?

Agreed to have a monthly meeting on the 1st Sunday of each month.

  • Website

- as opposed to wiki. Access? A sub-group to be created to do the site. John, Reuben, Ana and Chris offer to proof read.

5: Date/Lineup for next benefit.

See above. ( Finances )

6: Date/Agenda for next meeting.

Next meeting is on Sunday 7th of November.

7:' Any Other Business.

None

8: Type up and mail the minutes to the list/update the wiki.

Ana typed up to list, Reuben past to wiki

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