The first mini-summit will be held on March 16, 2008 at the FSF office.
Notes are available at Network services/Meeting notes.
Attendees
The following members were in attendance:
- Gabriel Burt, Novell
- Benjamin Mako Hill, Director, FSF
- Mike Linksvayer, VP, Creative Commons
- Henri Poole, Director, FSF
- Brett Smith, Licensing Expert, FSF
- James Vasile, Lawyer, Software Freedom Law Center
- Luis Villa, Proto-lawyer, Columbia Law School
The follow members called in:
- Bradley M. Kuhn, President, Software Freedom Conservancy (Calling in from the road)
- Jonathan Gray from OKFN (Calling from Britain)
- Evan Prodromou (Calling from Buenos Aires)
- Kragen Sitaker (Calling from Argentina)
- Aaron Swartz (Calling from San Francisco)
Schedule
- 11:30 - Meet for lunch and discussion at Cambridge Brewing Company (totally not free Google map free software, free data OpenStreetMap) -- if people like we can meet at the Kendall Square T station at 11:15 and then walk there together
- ~13:00 - Move to FSF board room for in-person discussion
- 19:00 - Dinner at currently other undecided local restaurant
Agenda
- Introductions - Who are we and why are we here?
- Sharing Utopian Visions - "We'll know we've succeeded when..."
- Review of reference service list - What are our thoughts and intuitions?
- Problems: What's between us and our visions becoming real? What was wrong with the reference services we previously outlined?
- Review of suggested approaches: General thoughts on shortcomings and benefits?
- Personal or group recommendations: What should we do? What can or should the FSF do?
- What should this group do moving forward?
