The March Manchester FSFE Fellowship meeting will take place on Thursday
29th at 19.00 in MadLab.
Bob Ham, GNU/Linux audio developer and coordinator of Liverpool Linux User
Group, will introduce and explain the JACK Audio Connection Kit - a
professional Free Software sound server for audio recording, mixing, editing,
and more.
JACK is at the cutting edge of professional media software, and powers the
most powerful Free Software applications in the field, including:
- Ardour: http://ardour.org/
- Hydrogen: http://www.hydrogen-music.org
- Blender: http://www.blender.org/
- VLC: http://www.videolan.org/vlc/
- PureData: http://puredata.info/
JACK does things that the most expensive proprietary software cannot, as was
originally funded and still developed by British programmer Paul Davis.
Bob's description:
> A short history and discussion of the JACK Audio Connection Kit, its
> operating principles, design and implementation
>
> * A short history of JACK
> * Some sound card basics
> * The JACK system
> * Demonstration
>
> The talk is a bit technical and contains phrases like "sound card buffer" and
> "callback".
There will also be discussion about recent news from the politics of Free
Software, and a report from Document Freedom Day, which takes place the day
before. Please bring your own topics for discussion with you, and present them
to the group.
How to find MadLab: http://madlab.org.uk/contact/
See you there!
Sam.
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== About the Free Software Foundation Europe ==
The Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) is a non-profit
non-governmental organisation active in many European countries and
involved in many global activities. Access to software determines
participation in a digital society. To secure equal participation in
the information age, as well as freedom of competition, the Free
Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) pursues and is dedicated to the
furthering of Free Software, defined by the freedoms to use, study,
modify and copy. Founded in 2001, creating awareness for these issues,
securing Free Software politically and legally, and giving people
Freedom by supporting development of Free Software are central issues
of the FSFE.
Unfortunately I won't be able to make it this year as I'll be in
Portugal for FSFE's annual general meeting.
Hope you all have a great time and spread some freedom :)
Best,
Sam.
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Hi all,
The regular FSFE
meeting<http://madlab.org.uk/content/free-software-foundation-europe-3>at
madlab is on this Thursday - from 7-9, usually followed by a drink and
some chips in bar common across the road. Would be great to see you all
there!
Probable topics of discussion will be a report on the FSFE websprint and
Free Software Social from last weekend (both were fun!) and a catchup with
the mailpod <http://wiki.fsfe.org/mailpod> project, which is stating to
take shape, and a review of the big green festival in Chorlton, witch we
had a booth at. Seems like have had a lot of events and things of late and
not much time to draw breath! Any other items to be added as usual :)
Best wishes
Anna
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On Thu, 2012-04-19 at 14:38 +0100, Ilias Bartolini wrote:
> I just arrived in Manchester this morning.
> Not a perl developer, but I'll definitely join for both writing/coding
> and beers.
Very good!
> At what time Friday's "Welcome Social Event" mentioned on the wiki
> starts?
19.30 (thanks for the pointer, I've updated the wiki with the time).
Best,
Sam.
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Dear Free Software and Hacking communities of Manchester,
You are invited to an evening of food, conversation and music. Come to
Madlab <http://madlab.org.uk/> THIS FRIDAY (the 20th) at 7.30 and mingle
with other members of Manchester's vibrant technological community - also
meet socially and politically minded representatives of HP and Opera
Software; special guests from France and Norway. This event will celebrate
the arrival of the Free Software Foundation Europe's Web Team and kick off
the FSFE Web Sprint 2012 [1].
See you there!
1. https://wiki.fsfe.org/WebSprint2012
Upcoming MadLab courses, with 30% off for group members:
On Tuesday 10 April 2012 20:14:49 Kaija-Luisa Kurik wrote:
> As you know MadLab is not for profit organisation and we use Omniversity to
> generate some income. We could always use help in promoting the
> courses. Help in spreading the info or any other suggestions would be very
> much appreciated. It is especially important to us to fill as many places
> as possible and we would like to offer special rates for the up coming
> Web Design Foundations courses for the groups and their friends and
> family. Instead of the regular £100 price for the session we would give a
> 30% reduction and offer each two part session for £70. I think creatives
> could really benefit from learning how to create their own space on the
> web.
>
> Here is a bit more information about the courses:
> Web Design Foundations is a four part modular course aimed at anyone who
> wants to learn about how the Web works from the very basic beginnings and
> be taken step by step to the point where they know how to build a basic
> modern best practices web site and put it online. This includes a bit of
> theory, but it largely focuses on getting your hands dirty with code (such
> as HTML and CSS), and learning how it REALLY works.
>
> There are three upcoming web design courses this spring:
> Web Design Foundations 2: HTML Basics
> 23rd April and 30th April (6pm-9pm)
> Web Design Foundations 3: CSS Basics
> 14th May and 21st May (6pm-9pm)
> Web Design Foundations 4: Advanced CSS and HTML topics
> 11th June and 18th June (6pm-9pm)
>
> People should not worry about missing the first session - we can share the
> materials for catching up. Maybe you could also remind the people in your
> group about the Geek Vouchers. Geek vouchers are available for all the
> courses.
Best,
Sam.
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hi, sorry was on holiday so didnt pick up the mail straight away. So, shall
we figure out a good date for this cool museum trip and then try and get
more people to come allong?
When are you free? how about Sat 5th of May? or 19th of May?
Anna
On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 12:58 PM, Sarah Carswell <
sarah.c.carswell(a)googlemail.com> wrote:
> Hi Sam and Anna yes trip to Liverpool for the exhibition sounds
> interesting, a weekend would be good for me.
>
> Let me know if you go!
>
> Cheers Sarah
>
>
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>> Hi, I heard about this on Radio 4 and am thinking of going there for
>> the
>> day sometime - anyone fancy making a daytrip out of it?
>>
>> Best
>>
>> Anna
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>>
See:
https://wiki.fsfe.org/groups/Manchester
I've also added info and links for two other past events so that newcomers can
get a better idea of what we get up to.
Comments, queries? Remember that you can edit the wiki yourself to add or
improve information.
Thanks,
Sam.
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British Team Coordinator
Free Software Foundation Europe
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