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

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.)

• 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

Possible topic for April:

• Peter Serwylo, core developer of F-Droid

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)

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

Possible Sydney cousin

• - Steve to coordinate in Sydney with Matt and possibly Patrick