This is going to be a condensed version of the German posting about the last Fellowship meeting in the Rhine/Main area. For the second time, we met in Aschaffenburg and we talked about the following topics:
- Freifunk
- Networking with other user groups in the area
- Software Freedom Day (by the way, there is the FSFE website hackathon on that day)
- planned talks for future meetings
- how to advertise our meetings more with less work (trac issue #451)
- adopt the Fellowship leaflet templates to Rhine/Main
- order more leaflets for the upcoming demonstration and cryptoparty
- Mutterware party again
- discussed the possibility to make a similar tour like this group in Norway.
- exchanged some stories how proprietary “solutions” (e.g. MS Sharepoint) don’t work well and most people just accept this as given without complaining which brought us to the subject that the same people would whine instantly if the tiniest little thing won’t work after a migration to FS. Why?
- And a more motivating subject was that it usually pays off to articulate your concerns to government entities (if delivered politely). I’ve experienced it several times and so have many more activists during the pdfreaders campaign. Just take the two minutes and tell them what bothers you!
Next time we’ll meet on Oct 1st in Frankfurt. See you there!