There are other Free Software related groups in Manchester but MFS is the only one that focuses on the Free Software philosophy. We are not FSF Manchester although we share much of the FSF philosophy.
Mailing List
Join the mailing list at fsuk-manchester mailing list. This is where we discuss Free Software issues, events and news.
Group Meetings
Group meetings are on the third Tuesday of the month at 19:00. We normally have a talk with questions and then
continue discussions informally. These meetings are currently held at Manchester Technology Centre - Tech Incubator. Details are posted to the fsuk-manchester mailing list beforehand.
Events
In addition to the Group Meetings, MFS organises and helps out with special events in order to promote the Free Software philosophy. If you have an event you would like us help out with, or that we might be interested in, please get in contact with the teamatfsuk-manchester-team@nongnu.org. We wish to attend a broad range of events.
We’re always looking for new speakers. If you have suggestions for speakers, or would like to speak yourself, please go on to the Speakers page for more information.
A list of materials to use when publicising Manchester Free Software.
History
Manchester Free Software was formed in response to the growing need for a group based in the Manchester area that focuses on Free Software and GNU/Linux primarily, but also on issues such as Digital Restrictions Management and other issues which infringe on the freedoms of computer users.
Historic
From when this wiki was used to list group meetings and events. Now these are posted to the mailing list only.
Ucubed - Saturday, 2nd of April 2011. 10:00-17:00. An event to encourage community involvement in Ubuntu and Debian based distributions using the freedom given by free software.
Manchester has a healthy tradition of groups based on free software technologies, but these groups suffer from a tendency to focus on mixing free software with proprietary software, or even proprietary operating systems, such as Mac OS X. Worse still, many of the groups are suffering from a strong bias against groups like the GNU Project and Free Software Foundation.
We anticipate that this group can happily co-exist with the others. Both the BSD and LUG groups have many members in common, and we hope many of them will want to belong to our group as well.
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