Intergalactic Meeting

Taking advantage of OSCON, Free Geek is holding a couple of initial meetings for folks interested in starting up official Free Geeks around the country. These will take place on Friday and Saturday July 28 and 29, 2006.

Attending

So far coming:

• Casey Milford, Free Geek Arkansas (has not applied for preliminary status)
• Scott Merrill, Free Geek Columbus (has not applied for preliminary status)
• John Billings, Free Geek Michiana (has not applied for preliminary status) and Free Geek Chicago (has applied)
• Chris Hardy from Olympia

Friday, Welcome to Free Geek

Shawn, Richard, Matteo, Michael

• Tour at 6 pm, along with regular folks -- make sure there's a good tour guide, one of us or Phil
• After the tour, startup folks go to Meeting Room, volunteers to Front Desk
• In Meeting Room
  • History
  • Structure of Free Geek
  • General Q & A
  • What are you expecting to get from the rest of the weekend here?
  • Develop a plan for each person
• Beer (Shawn will find the right venue, Lab, Acme, Roots, Rose & Raindrop, Barley Mill)

Saturday

9:30 am - 10.45 -- Intergalactic Meeting

Richard (facilitate), Shawn (late), Matteo, Michael?, Nathan (scribe)

• Overview of Franchise Process (presentation with Q & A)
  • caveat -- lawyer may want to tweak
• Mission of Free Geek Intergalactic (open conversation)
• Structure (open conversation)
• Need a minutes checker
• Next Steps

Nathan can take Scott to airport around 6 pm