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"}
