[Fsuk-manchester] Manchester Free Software Talk: OpenMoko and Others

[Lucy]

**Note change in date!**

Next Meeting
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 Our next meeting will be on Tuesday 28th October, 2008.

This month some of our members: Michael, Tim and Enrico, who are also
OpenMoko [1] users and advocates, will be giving a talk and
demonstration of the new Neo FreeRunner. The phone was released on 25
June 2008 and uses only free software. Their talk will cover the phone
itself, the OS and the various toolkits and applications available for
it. Hopefully, they will also say whether it can actually make phone
calls [2]!

There should still be time for some lightning talks afterwards. I
think Simon will be giving a short presentation about the results of
the OSM Manchester Mapping Party [3]. If anyone else wants to give a
short talk as well they are more than welcome.

[1] http://openmoko.org
[2] The answer is yes, or so I'm told. Maybe we'll get a demonstration..
[3] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Manchester/Mapping_Party

 Location
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 The meeting will take place at 19:00 in the Manchester Digital
 Development Agency on Portland Street. Access is via the doorbells at
 the entrance. Wheelchair access via the lift is available to the left
 of the main entrance.

 MDDA provide complimentary Fair Trade tea and coffee.

 Manchester Digital Development Agency (MDDA)
 Lower Ground Floor
 117-119 Portland Street
 Manchester
 M1 6ED

 Directions are available on the MDDA web site[4]:

 [4]: http://manchesterdda.com/directions/

 General information about Manchester Free Software meetings can be
 found on our web site[5]:

 [5]: http://manchester.fsuk.org/blog/meetings/

 Coming?
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 If you're coming, feel free to add yourself to the FSF Groups wiki
 page[6].  If you would like five minutes to tell us about something,
 please add yourself to the wiki or contact us at
 <address@hidden>.


 [6]: http://groups.fsf.org/index.php/Manchester/2008-10-28