Open Meeting: Sunday 6th March 05

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Agenda Sunday 06/03/05

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The meeting was at 5pm, at the rampART (http://www.streetmap.co.uk/newmap.srf?x=534641&y=181230&z=0&sv=e1+2la&st=2&pc=e1+2la&mapp=newmap.srf&searchp=newsearch.srf), in the first floor Hacklab

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

1: Hacklabbers in Attendance

Antonnio, Ben, Chris, José, Reuben, Sash

2: Apologies

Ana (Indymedia meeting), Asa (helping at ISM London training), BeF (ill)

3: Previous Minutes and Matters Arising

Open Meeting: Sunday 6th February 05

4: Agenda

• Benefit & Fundraising

 * Building and selling spare PCs, preinstalled with Free Software at around £20 to £30 a time. (Ben)
 * Building ready to roll lab for autonomous spaces (server, router and thin clients) and encouraging a donation of around £100 to £200 (easily in the realms of being funded by one party at the space involved). (Ben)
   - Chris would like to see thin client networks working in practice before giving his approval.
 * Contact UKFSN (Freedom's Hacklab's ISP) to get donation as we're a running Free Software project. (Chris)
 * Find out how much ASS (Advisory Service for Squatters) would donate to Freedom's broadband costs. (Sash)
 * Freedom Hacklab bandwidth
   - Would it be possible to share bandwidth with Aldgate Press? (Sash)
   - Does Whitechapel Art Gallery have wireless? (Sash)
 * If we were to have a benefit, it should not just be a moneymaking event, it should reflect the Hacklab ethos, e.g. by having Free Software workshops before party. Also just one event a year would probably cover hacklab outgoings (Ben)
   - There sees to be no immediate need for a benefit at present as ASS have said that they will contribute to Freedom's broadband costs but funds will be required in a few more months.
   - Perhaps NTK or Mute would be interested in doing an event this year in the vein of Extreme Computing (http://www.xcom2002.com/) or NotCon (http://www.xcom2002.com/nc04/). (Sash)

• Contribution to RampArt for broadband connection

 * RampART does not pay so not needed.

5: Date for next meeting

3rd April 05

6: Any Other Business

• Workshops

 * Who is our audience? What's the killer application?
   - We should not replicate what's available at evening courses. (Ben)
   - We should offer a Free Software slant to these courses. (Sash)
   - There should be a general hardware and software workshop to get people interested in Free Software. This can serve as a springboard for targeted workshops. We don't want to field Windows support questions. Knoppix as a GNU/Linux introduction and people searching for information together.
   - The OpenOffice workshop is not well attended. (Chris)
 * Kaslab Activities (José)
   - During the Summer there is a weekend of Free Software workshops, and also a one day event during the Winter. There was a (noisy) workshop held on Madrid's equivalent of the Circle line.
   - Selling T-shirts
   - Selling booze at yearly socials
   - Helpdesk for social centre.
   - Webdesign/maintenance for other groups

• Publicity

 * Who to send info to? (Reuben)
   - Anyone who may be interested and won't charge for advertising. (Ben)
   - Public libraries, community centres. (Ben) 
   - Postal adresses to the publicity list should go here (http://wiki.hacklab.org.uk/index.php/Event_publicity). (Reuben)

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