During three days working for FSFE I did the following:
== Policy == - Published news item re: contributions to 'Open Source Options for Government' paper (syndicated by OSOR here: http://www.osor.eu/news/eu-uk- fsfe-appeals-for-information-on-oss-deployments) - Dented details of contributing to said govt. paper - Emailed fellowship-uk@ and manchester@ mailing lists re said govt. paper - Summarised news of new UK Govt. position 'Executive Director of Digital' to UK team, proposed action regarding this new appointment - Contacted a variety of organisations requesting details of companies able to support a London council's migration to GNU/Linux desktops - Emailed aforementioned London council with updates regarding my enquiries concerning assistance for their migration
== Editors == - Proposed questions for May Fellowship interview to Chris Woolfrey - Proposed next steps with Free Software section to web@, proposed opening drafting process to editors team and defining vision for section
== Community == - Emailed UK team re: making use of network of 'circuit riders': voluntary technical support and developers for UK based third sector organisations - Attended Manchester Free Software meeting on 'Puppet'. Discussed political contacts for Free Software with other attendees after the meeting. - Engaged in extensive communications with leader of local installfest group, discussed next group event, invited them to next Fellowship meeting - Dented article from fsfeuk account: 'Govt OSS Policy: resilient as a snowflake in June ' - Dented article from fsfeuk account: 'International alarm rings over UK ICT policy' - Dented article from fsfeuk account: 'Summary of today’s National Audit Office report on £11.4bn NHS IT scheme' - Dented article from fsfeuk account: 'MPs pooh-pooh happy clappy ICT strategy'
== Fellowship == - Emailed proposed topics of discussion to Manchester Fellowship group for this week's meeting - Proposed improvements to communication mechanisms with Fellows to fellowship@ - Provided a UK Fellow with background information and extensive links to details of FRAND, Open Standards, and procurement. - Achieved access to current draft of Edu team mission statement and forwarded it to a UK fellow for their research
== Other == - Contacted system hackers regarding improved spam handling on mailing-lists via use of mailman's spam folder and configuration of mail clients to upload spam messages to server - Debugged shared office Canon photocopier (it doesn't support GNU/Linux). Found solution using virtualbox, documented it and shared it. - Contacted edu team re: publication of mission statement - Forwarded new t-shirt and flyer designs in response to request on designers@
== Web == - Contributed ideas to discussion on reformatting of 'our work' page - Assisted a deputy coordinator in accessing FSFE's track instance - Notified fellowship@ of out of date 'communicate' page, sought commit access to SVN, made enquiries about status of migration of fellowship.fsfe.org to fsfe.org/fellowship - Contributed to debate on privacy of MoinMoin - Added Paul Adams to listed team members on uk.fsfe.org - Contacted UK team members not currently listed on uk.fsfe.org, requested permission to add them - Proposed new tag based breadcrumbs system for fsfe.org, outlined idea and engaged in discussion on web@ regarding this proposal - Implemented Martin Gollowitzer's suggestions for improving mailman message moderation on uk team list
== Preview == - Monitor latest contributions to Open Source Options for Government paper - Make preparations for Thursday Fellowship meeting - research PDFR UK campaign current status - Continue enquiries on behalf of London council - Write article about appointment of new Executive Director of Digital? - Lunch meeting with leader of local installfest group - Print UK leaflets for Fellowship group (technical problems prevented this last week)