Attended: Adam B, Ben S (late)
1. 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
2. Meetup.com update
43 in our meetup group!
6 new people RSVP'd to March meeting
3. 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.)
Election
- Adam to run election
- description of roles
- update from current committee on roles
- call for nominations, then vote
- president, vice-president, secretary, treasurer
Presentation
- William Grant on working in free software
TODO: Ben S. to follow up - 30 mins, send email address to Adam
Gnews
- Adam to pull some things together
Meet a member
- not this month
Dinner
- Adam's choice
3. Possible topic for April:
Peter Serwylo, core developer of F-Droid
4. Update on future venue
- Electron Workshop sounds really likely, Ben S. to try to get more concrete agreement
TODO: Adam to ask Sitepoint (if Eletron Workshop doesn't look promising)
5. 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
- 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
6. Possible Sydney cousin
- Steve to coordinate in Sydney with Matt and possibly Patrick
