[Fsfe-ie] Summary of meeting #2
Aidan Delaney
adelaney at cs.may.ie
Fri Aug 8 10:25:37 CEST 2003
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On Thu 07 Aug 2003 21:33, Ciaran O'Riordan wrote:
> Present:
> Mel McWeeney
> Malcolm Tyrrell
> Sean O'Donnell
> Glen Strong
> Ciaran O'Riordan
Apologies for not turning up, we had several power cuts and NIS wen't down.
Thus I missed the train.
> Discussion topics, and suggestions:
>
> The EU patents inflation directive
> need to understand what exactly is happening on Sept 1st
> Find out what ammendments will be voted on
> Draft a benchmark for our MEPs: unless ammendments X and Y
> are inplemented, you must vote no.
We need to get on top of this immediatly. Maybe do the whole "adopt an MEP"
thing.
> IFSO could be a good name (Irish Free Software Org)
> Look into reserving ifso.ie
IFSO sounds good to me.
> Membership open to N.Ireland? (consensus: yes)
> Probably open to all nationalities, meetings in Ireland.
Yes from me too
> When should we set up an organisation?
> Maybe late January
I'd like to get ifso.ie a bit sooner
> How do we deal with unDublinising the org?
> Hold the committee forming meeting in "All other places" :)
> (Midlands if that's easy for travel, or if there's a cluster
> of people in one non-Dublin county, we could meet there)
Hands up all the country folk :)
> How should we decide the committee?
> Democracy? maybe but we don't know eachother very well yet.
> 5-person agreement? and real elections in 1 year. maybe.
I'm open to this suggestion.
> An FSFE-IE website?
> Maybe a non-official (but official looking) one would be good
> until we have a committee to maintain a real official site
Give me a URL and I'll do the site. IFSO.ie would be cool, but maybe we could
start out with linux.ie/ifso (ask the ilug guys) or some other free software
related group.
>
> Further meetings
> More frequent similar non-decision-making meetings
> Maybe another meeting before the Sept 1st patents vote
I'll be along to the next one (promise).
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Thanks,
Aidan Delaney
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