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Attended: Adam B, Ben S (late)

Election

Would be good to avoid people reluctantly agreeing to positions on the night.

Possibilities:

• • Damien
• Ben M. (not sure on initial)
• Glenn
• Scott TODO: Check with Ben F, check with Glenn & Scott{: list-style-type="no-bullet"}

Meetup.com update

43 in our meetup group! 6 new people RSVP'd to March meeting

Confirm details of upcoming meeting:

• Meeting host (nametags, sign on outer door, welcoming, timekeeping)
  • • Adam to host
• Ben S. to give name tags to Ben F. to bring

• need to make sure someone is there early to welcome newbies and let them in (talk to Ben F.){: list-style-type="no-bullet"}{: list-style-type="no-bullet"}

• Election

  • • Adam to run election
    • • description of roles
  • update from current committee on roles
  • call for nominations, then vote * - president, vice-president, secretary, treasurer{: list-style-type="no-bullet"}{: list-style-type="no-bullet"}{: list-style-type="no-bullet"}{: list-style-type="no-bullet"}

• Presentation

  • • William Grant on working in free software TODO: Ben S. to follow up - 30 mins, send email address to Adam{: list-style-type="no-bullet"}{: list-style-type="no-bullet"}

• Gnews

  • • Adam to pull some things together{: list-style-type="no-bullet"}{: list-style-type="no-bullet"}

• Meet a member

  • • not this month{: list-style-type="no-bullet"}{: list-style-type="no-bullet"}

• Dinner

  • • Adam's choice{: list-style-type="no-bullet"}{: list-style-type="no-bullet"}

Possible topic for April:

• Peter Serwylo, core developer of F-Droid{: list-style-type="no-bullet"}

Update on future venue

• • Electron Workshop sounds really likely, Ben S. to try to get more concrete agreement{: list-style-type="no-bullet"}

TODO: Adam to ask Sitepoint (if Eletron Workshop doesn't look promising)

Future "contribute to free software" event

• • Melbourne Uni is a possibility
• good to keep moving on this one - Scott keen
• cap it, say 30 people so we can get a normal sized classroom
  • • 20 gnewbies and 8-10 mentors?
• May might be best - talk already for April{: list-style-type="no-bullet"}
• • set of objectives for mentors and gnewbies
  • • ie. get something submitted by end of day
• "high touch" - don't leave students stuck on their own{: list-style-type="no-bullet"}{: list-style-type="no-bullet"}

Possible Sydney cousin

• • Steve to coordinate in Sydney with Matt and possibly Patrick{: list-style-type="no-bullet"}{: page-href="wiki:///CommitteeMeetings/20150309"}