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The meeting agenda is already posted for tonight’s (Wednesday’s) SPI board IRC meeting which will be at 2000 UTC.
It’s another pretty lean meeting, with only some minutes to approve, so why not come along and let the board know what you think they should be doing to promote free and open source software?

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DoctorMO is calling Paypal the Pocketing Police after this “Paypal [...] decided we were scammers and took our money” comment by Daniel Stone during the Xorg foundation election discussions.
Our co-op has avoided Paypal for a number of years for two reasons:

Paypal didn’t recognise UK company registration “numbers” that contain letters (like ours) for years after [...]

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The meeting agenda is already posted for tonight’s (Wednesday’s) SPI board IRC meeting which will be at 2000 UTC (an hour earlier than last month, back at usual time).
It’s another pretty lean meeting and I don’t know why. Last month’s comments suggested SPI needs better marketing, which has come up in the comments here [...]

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I’ve been asked why I dislike surveymonkey surveys, I don’t want to reply fully in that forum (because it’s off-topic there) and I want to publish this for your feedback now.

surveymonkey really frustrates me. In short, it’s often confusing, I think it doesn’t follow UK accessiblity laws and I’m unsure if it complies with [...]

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A clear announcement went out in plenty of time and the meeting agenda is already posted for Wednesday’s SPI board IRC meeting which will be at 2100 UTC (an hour later than recently).
As I write this, it’s a pretty lean meeting, though I guess that’s understandable when the run-up included holidays for most people.
What do [...]

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