[Libreplanet-us-wa] stuff going on, and soliciting ideas

[Andrew Kane]

It's been a couple of weeks since the last FGSEA-ish meeting at Third
Place. I don't intend that we should have another one this month unless
someone else wants to and has ideas on what to talk about.

Since the last meeting I've made very little progress on starting the
as-yet-unnamed organization I've been talking about. I have not
forgotten, but I hope no one is in a hurry. This is a complex area in
which I have no prior training. I'm assuming that everyone who reads
this already knows what I'm talking about, but just in case: Free Geek
Seattle is effectively dead, and I'm planning to start a different
organization which will help it and other similar organizations to
start. I'm currently thinking of using the name "Libremake" for this
organization. Hopefully someone has a better idea?

I've also been remiss in answering emails and absent from the usual IRC
channels. I have strained something in my back (or neck or shoulder,
somewhere back there) which has made it difficult for me to type and to
do other things.

Because of this injury I have delayed the bicycle trip which I had
intended to re-attempt this month. If I am able, I will go out of town
for approximately the week of the 15th through the 22nd. Through most of
that time I will be out of the range of electromagnetic communication,
so if you need to reach me you'll need a non-motorized vehicle or
perhaps an alpenhorn. I will be back for SeaGL, and if I haven't healed
soon enough I will not leave at all.

My presentation for SeaGL is taking longer than I would wish, but the
delay (learning DocBook XML, which is more complex than I at first
thought) will hopefully be worthwhile. The topic is "How to Start
Contributing to FOSS Projects" and the talk is itself a Free Software
Project under GPLv2. I hope some smarter folk than I am will contribute,
because this is a 50 minute talk IIRC. There isn't much of anything
there currently, but hopefully by the time anyone reads this I will have
fleshed it out some.

I have a lot of other stuff going on. I apologize to anyone who has been
waiting to hear back from me. If there's something I'm supposed to be
doing for you, please feel free to remind me about it. Not everything
gets into my calendar, and if it's not there I forget it.