[Fsfe-uk] Activity 15 March

[MJ Ray]

Not long since the last one, but a lot of developments:

Welcome to your occasional guide to who's doing what for AFFS, the
Association For Free Software, http://www.affs.org.uk/

Task: Finishing setup of financial affairs
Who I'm blaming: MJ Ray
What for: Current estimate is that we can start taking money next week.

Task: Arranging the first AFFS meeting
Who : Alex Hudson
What: Venue for probably early April

Task: Updating the web site
Who : Alex Hudson
What: Need this sort of thing online and easy actions for supporters

Task: Patent campaign
Who : Alex Hudson?
What: Researching at the moment.  What are the next steps?

Task: Preparing launch PR material
Who : Richard Smedley
What: Rewriting my hackneyed scribbling

Task: Preparation of Birmingham Expo
Who : Martyn Ranyard?  Richard Ibbotson?
What: Well, it's happening.  What should we do there?  What do we need?

Task: Drafting an introduction for non-specialists
Who : Ramin Nakisa
What: Second draft published to list and suggestions being made

Task: schoolforge.net liaison
Who : Richard Smedley
What: Joined.  What now?

Task: Campaign for Digital Rights liaison
Who : Alistair Davidson
What: Patent issue raised there by someone else.  What now?

Task: OS Health Care Alliance liaison
Who : Simon Waters?
What: Joining

Task: Institutional Web Managers (ac.uk types) liaison
Who : Andrew Savory
What: Continuing discussions

Task: A new free software-type news web site
Who : Me, with barracking/help from robster
What: Software being rewritten.

Task: Approaching http://www.linuxinstallday.org/ about sponsoring
Who : Me
What: Second emails sent.  Discussions continuing on address@hidden

Random tasks that I'm not sure what's happened to:

Task: Designing the logo (vector format, please)
Task: Association with FSF Europe
Task: Redrafting the Standing Orders

Feel free to adopt one of these tasks, or start another.  This is only my
view and all blunders are mine, so please don't hold back with the
corrections.  Absolutely no warranty.

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