Good afternoon list, After the success of FSF librelocal in London earlier this year, with a turnout of 13 people, there will be another meetup on the 8th August, details below. I will be taking lead on this meetup as the organiser for the previous will unfortunately be busy.
For the previous meetup the organiser went out of pocket to book a private room, however this is not feasible for me to do. Most places in London which I could reserve would either cost money (and a lot of it) or were not going to fit our needs. Details: Date: Saturday 8th August 2026 Location: The Metropolitan Bar, Baker Street [1] Time: 1pm onwards (come and leave as you wish) I will be in a EuroBSDCon 2024 tshirt, the artwork is at the top of the archived website [2], and THERE WILL BE STICKERS. I am hoping that the FSFE stickers arrive in time, however I will also have XMPP stickers as I am an XSF (XMPP Standards Foundation) member. If one of the Arch Linux staff wants to send us stickers to distribute for outreach (we already have a few arch users attending which I contacted before making this public) please off-list me ASAP. The meetup is mainly to gauge interest. We are a small group of us wanting to make this more regular, and have our own comms for it, so depending on the turnout for this will determine the future of a potential FOSS group in London. If it does happen, we will definitely be looking for partnerships with potential venues so that we are chancing having the space we need. I apologise for the poor timing, with froscon and EuroBSDCon coming up this is the last weekend before October we could organise it, and I didn't want to leave it until October. Anyone interested in helping out, feel free to reach out. Thanks for reading, -- Polarian Jabber/XMPP: [email protected] [1] https://www.jdwetherspoon.com/pubs/the-metropolitan-bar-marylebone/ [2] http://2024.eurobsdcon.org/
