Software Freedom Day 2011 Boston/First meeting

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Attendees

  • Karen Rustad
  • Deborah Nicholson
  • Asheesh Laroia

Minutes

We express our goals for the meeting:

  • Community-based event
    • Bring together user groups (and other front-line free software recruitment machines)
    • both to create new developers and to create expert users

Asheesh asked us to brainstorm events we could have, along with how those events contribute to our goals, and who the target audience would be for the events. We all talked about our ideas; here's what I (Asheesh) wrote down:

Event Goal Audience
Software application tutorials Create more expert users Technology enthusiasts
Competition where people compete on explaining free software ideas Improve the quality of outreach to newcomers to free software Existing free software enthusiasts
Introduction to the social process of free software development Create more free software contributors Programmers, mostly
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