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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"}