Network services/Meeting

The mini-summit will be held on March 16, 2008 at the FSF office. Additional details will be forthcoming.

Attendees

The following members will be 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 have been invited to call in and expressed interest in doing so:

• Bradley M. Kuhn, President, Software Freedom Conservancy (Calling in from the road)
• Rufus Pollock and/or 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

1. Introductions - Who are we and why are we here?
2. Sharing Utopian Visions - "We'll know we've succeeded when..."
3. Review of reference service list - What are our thoughts and intuitions?
4. Problems: What's between us and our visions becoming real? What was wrong with the reference services we previously outlined?
5. Review of suggested approaches: General thoughts on shortcomings and benefits?
6. Personal or group recommendations: What should we do? What can or should the FSF do?
7. What should this group do moving forward?

Calling Instructions

If you're calling in to the summit, you can do so with any of the following:

• +1 (617) 861 9106 (works everywhere)
• +1 (800) 819 5312 (only works inside the U.S.)
• sip:1001@beeblebrox.gnu.org

If you use one of the POTS numbers, the disembodied voice of our sysadmin will welcome you to the GPLv3 conference server (don't panic, it's still the right server) and ask you to enter the conference room number. That's 1001.

After you do that, or after you call the SIP number, the Asterisk lady will ask you for the conference PIN number. That's 8741. After you enter that, you should be patched into the summit.

If you call in and the Boston people aren't there, it probably means lunch/the FSF board meeting ran over. Try not to panic, and we'll get there as soon as we can.

Backchannel: IRC backchannel is available at irc://irc.freenode.net/netservices (#netservices on irc.freenode.net).