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*Chris drew up a list of https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1bRYT4V98fCE4mKny6 *Chris pointed us towards the UK REconomy Funding Database. reFund v.1.0

...or members to add their own events. A brilliant guide has been written by Chris in Penrith for his local area, which is really useful for other communities

...the other criteria. Edward and Chris put together some early ideas, which Chris has worked up into a google document, see bullet point below: ...to determine the scales of the projects and numbers of beneficiaries, and Chris has sent out a survey to all volunteers to ask them about their willingness

...e 55 members as at 10/03, anyone else very welcome! Huge thanks are due to Chris Cant who has taken a lead on almost all of the items listed. Topics discuss Chris did a lot of work on finding potential funding sources for £130k to employ

*Chris submitted results of the publicity survey. *Cat, with help from Edward and Chris, submitted an application to a WRAP scheme to reduce fly-tipping.

Chris spotted a funding opportunity with Aviva, which had an environmental sectio ...e lines that we didn’t have anyone to apply for funding opportunities, and Chris came up with some draft project pro-formas that we could develop and tweak

The Board announced on Central, on 20th September 2016, that Chris Cant had been contracted to develop the Freegle mobile app to work with the

We have been approached by a researcher at the Open University, Chris Martin, who has also volunteered to help moderate on Leeds and will be joi ...s still more work to improve reliability even further and Edward, Paul and Chris have this in hand.

...eb to share resources and reduce the environmental impact of communities. Chris is a Research Fellow in the Duirng the summer Chris presented an overview of his research at the International Social Innovatio

*Edward, Chris and Liz helped Louise with an application for Kendal Freegle and a small gr *Chris suggested a Freegle limerick competition, which brought in a few entries, n

...the process of signing up and we already have a perfectly good disclaimer. Chris has taken on the task of writing up some new Terms and Conditions for the a

Chris from Penrith

...been put in a spreadsheet, hosted on Freegleinfo@drive .Thanks to Jacqui, Chris and Edward *A hasty application was made by Edward, Chris, Ollie and Liz for money for Give and Takes to Cumbria County Council for K

Chris Cant presented the Board with a draft specification for a mobile phone app Chris has suggested initially two stages of development and requires £5,000 in t

...also thanked for his work with Cumbria Action for Sustainability (CAFS). Chris updated us on this work. Chris is also setting up a workplace Freegle group which may result in a regular

Announced by Chris on Funding Group [[https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FreegleFunding/conve

*[[Freegle App Developer]] - Chris Cant

Chris is looking at providing a new version of the Message Maker that asks for t

*7.1 Proposer - Chris Cant, Seconder - Wanda Hall

Chris added a Direct links bit in the footer of the main webpage and added this p Chris adapted the Message Maker so that members who have joined via Direct can us

b. Chris has investigated ibuildapp as a possible tool to use, but it is deemed unsu ...thinks it is possible to stop it occurring in the same browser session.<br>Chris as usual has customised the message maker locations to suit individual grou

...the process of signing up and we already have a perfectly good disclaimer. Chris has taken on the task of writing up some new Terms and conditions for the a

We liaised with Chris Cant (Penrith) and Jean Quinn (Trafford) about appointing from Chris.

...tics 0.5 to 1 day Edward has agreed with Chris to split the IT work with Chris doing the website changes and Edward the Freegle Direct and email work. Th

Chris has recently given us an update. ...roup" functionality and will be "launching" this at an event on 14 April. Chris is working on some evaluation

June 2010 (Chris to check each month) ...[[Tech Responsibilities]] page, which summarises what techy tasks happen (Chris)

...n the FB memberships caught up worked ok.<br> <br>'''3.Main Website.'''<br>Chris did some tweaks to the main site layout so that it is easier to use from a .... <br>Q. Does anyone have a list of the Birthdays of all the groups.<br>A. Chris supplied what he has. <br> Jean<br> Freegle Tech<br> Tech Report Feb 2013

Chris (Penrith) suggested that we have random tips/tweets on it and also eventual Our home page was getting a bit cluttered. Chris has created a separate awards page with only the latest award on the home p

Chris suggested that: =====Proposer - Chris Cant, Seconder - Wanda Hall=====

*Edward to collect Board biographies for Chris. No action as little benefit adding to old site. ...ollation, and write a report. This will need a £175 top-up from Freegle. Chris is talking to Cat about the best way to do the blog.

Chris Cant thanked the Directors for a comprehensive and informative Report.and a ...help. The support they have given to Freegle is very much appreciated. Chris was also thanked for his hard work.

...embers will have to have the gumption to look for another nearby location. Chris will have another look at the problem when time permits.<br>1.3 Jean has be ...ly visible to users with Flash 10 or later plugin in their browser.<br>3.2 Chris supplied Jean with a new list of groups on the old message maker. She has p

Edward reported that Chris is working on what needs to be done to ensure that FDv3 works as a mobile a Action: John to check with Chris about this work.

...as Edward was away on a sponsored walk which raised over £10K for Freegle. Chris and Edward remained available if needed urgently of course but nothing majo Chris</br>

...le Ltd. The Freegle UK bank account will be closed. John will check with Chris regarding CAFS before this is done. c.Expenditure YTD - £1,000 ( approved payment to Chris for Mobile work from funds donated for this project)

...ssed by the Reps and on Structure and some legal advice has been obtained. Chris is liaising over Public Liability Insurance. Chris (Penrith Freegle/IT)

* Chris provides a summary report from Google Analytics for perusal by the group.-

...gain; there’s supposed to be an option to only enable adding events but I (Chris) couldn’t get this working, so the app asks for Full Access.to the calend

...r iPhone/iPad, Android and Kindle Fire is being tested on many groups, and Chris has made various fixes - updates on iPhone/iPad take around a week to appea ...vefreegle.org/mobile/ http://wiki.ilovefreegle.org/Freegle_Mobile_app]<br>[Chris adds: I hope have another round of fixes in version 0.66 before going live

...way of sharing the FDV2 code between the website and the mobile app with Chris having responsibility for making that happen, while Edward focuses on the w Andrew T will talk to Chris about the practicalities of doing this. Further discussion will take place

...very quiet here, in part because Edward has been busy with Admin stuff and Chris working on his app.<br>We now have early versions of both the phone app and Chris is now trialling the phone app. It works for offers already and links to yo

...or web app to display appropriately in a phone, tablet, laptop or PC. <br>Chris and Edward have already done some work on displaying our stuff okay on the ...to the wiki to print out posters could be put off by all the warnings.<br>Chris has now set up a page on the main website to carry some generic materials w

Thank you to Chris for preparing this report on behalf of Freegle which we agreed should be pu

Everything has been running fairly smoothly this month. Chris Cant has started work on a long awaited phone app for Freegle Direct groups ...t copies are kept on our 'My Post' tab.<br>A. Edward will consider it, and Chris intends to incorporate this feature into the phone app. <br>Q Can someone p

<br>Chris has added the facility of a prominent notice to the top of the Freegle webs ...discussion Edward amended the colour of the existing one to Freegle green. Chris shared the links he uses instead of the quick join box, which takes members

<br> Chris pulled data off websites for posts a while ago and it is being kept updated ...really a Growth issue and not a Tech one.<br>Jane also got the stats from Chris which showed that 46% of groups and members are still not using Freegle Dir

...to help, then please mail your name and email address off-list to Chris at chris@phdcc.com Hopefully this will help keep Freegle's mail from being marked as

:Chris

...ng accessible.&nbsp; These seem to be those only recently having it.&nbsp; Chris has fixed those reported to us, but if you have a problem with yours please

...or this with a view to providing the IT development to enable the scheme. Chris and Edward agree that this is technically possible by making changes to Fre

...ishing should be monitored regularly as part of this monthly analysis that Chris produces for the group.

* Chris provides a summary report from Google Analytics for perusal by the group.

3. Chris Martin (Open University) research final report received. Agreed Alison wil ...pearance, wording, flow, function etc. I’m doing the server side changes Chris needs. I may go to Penrith for a launch.

*Chris provides a summary report from Google Analytics for perusal by the group.

*Chris is hoping that someone will have the time to do an application for an award

...his first pass at the app, bringing it in ahead of schedule and Edward and Chris were constantly tweaking, changing, breaking and fixing stuff. <br> ...hension while Edward went on holiday, but everything had settled down and Chris dealt with anything which did arise.

Chris Cant has drafted some terms of use for Freegle members. After a few minor t

Chris Cant proposed a vote of thanks “to the Board, the national volunteers, al Chris was thanked for his work on the mobile applications.

Announced by Chris on Funding Group [[https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FreegleFunding/conve

c. Expenditure YTD - £0 (£1,000 approved for payment to Chris for Mobile work from funds donated for this project) Chris Martin has produced a final report.

Chris Cant has identified the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, next deadline is 30/11.

...onth which was mostly used to try out some of Edward’s new ideas, and even Chris found time to present us with a new toy, which I am sure will be developed Chris has done a rough map of where posts are on your group optionally over a cer

Local moderator Chris is writing a blog with posts at least every fortnight, usually more often. Chris is also submitting a piece every month to the free magazine [http://www.pen

...is agreement and have now received £200 for work carried out by Edward and Chris.

Chris Cant drafted some new terms of use, for the new platform that is under cons

Chris will be putting in an application to be part of a lottery bid which require

The project is being run by local moderator Chris Cant who can be contacted on [mailto:grow-your-own@ilovefreegle.org grow-yo

...rd and recognition scheme”. This was also brought separately to Central by Chris Cant (Penrith) and is currently being discussed. Cat has offered her advice

Edward and Chris both had their holidays this month which always results in a quieter time o A quick fix was done by Chris, who was away for Android devices but iOS had to wait until he got back.<br

Chris Cant has been working on a business plan via working groups, with useful in ...his task. This is a possible candidate for Microsoft funds; we could ask Chris to do a job

...he works and that the hourly rate is well below a commercial contractor. Chris pointed out that there is much technical support in Freegle that is done by

Chris Cant wrote up a first draft of the spec for the volunteer role that we were ...poll was set up to find out if the group agreed to the job description in Chris’s draft. The result of that poll was 67% in favour. 26% against and 7% ab

We received a report from Chris for the Sustain Eden Grow-your-own project Year 1 Quarter 3. We are happy t

Chris had a major problem with changes made by others affecting our app. He has h Chris found a workaround for the Google sign in problem, he has also had to revam

Chris and Edward updated the system so that the mobile Freegle app (for users) pr Chris

No real issues, Chris tidied up some outstanding stuff from last months crash.

Chris Cant reported on the use of Discourse as the Freegle Mods discussion forum. *In response to queries, Chris updated the code for his scripts to produce more meaningful information on

Freegle has also contracted Chris Cant to provide a new mobile app. Unlike the previous version, this has th Chris Cant for the Freegle App, and other great geek activity.

Chris Cant for the enormous amount of work he did on getting the IPS proposal tog

...t think that it was working fine.<br>'''vii''' Working with Jo in Fife and Chris to automate maintenance and publication of the regular stats.<br>'''viii'''

Chris has sent the Geeks an early version of his mobile app to try.

A busy month. Chris launched his phone app on his local group and got some publicity. Edward la

Outstanding action - Need to speak with Chris to work out the best way to align the Mobile app with the new platform as p ##Chris has agreed to lead the task to put together t&cs for the new platform, whic

...geeks help keep our system running. Currently we have Edward Hibbert and Chris Cant. We would very much welcome volunteers with Linux sysadmin experience ...to answer some, and we aim to answer as much we can to free up Edward and Chris from the demands of daily queries, and we are also proactive in debugging p

...moderators. He did break something in the ModTools app which necessitated Chris doing a new release. ...'t think it's likely that anyone would write specific code to do this, but Chris may write a Drupal plugin.

I (Chris) have released a new version 1.4.5 of the Freegle app for Android with the Chris<br>

As part of the GAYL work done by Chris and Edward, we now have the ability to bulk mail members and track the resp

Chris<br> Edward and Chris are both looking into ways to maximise use of Google. It is possible to get

The Board asked Chris to produce a ModTools app with built-in plugin function so that mods can mo Chris has also updated the mobile app for phones and tablets to work on the new w

The Reps have also been working with Chris (Penrith) on his application for funding for mobile apps - reviewing his ap We asked Chris (Penrith) to arrange for access to the old message maker to be blocked, as

Edward and Chris have managed to get a block on Freegle emails to AOL lifted. <br>Please ask

''Action:'' The Board will ask Chris Cant, in advance of the meeting, to set up a group for the AGM in 2024.

Chris added an entry for our widget page here:<br>[http://www.hotscripts.com/list

Chris is making good progress with the mobile phone app.

£664 Media work, £400 pay- through of Chris’ Big Lottery grant Chris continues to work on the app

After last weeks request for geeks Chris has been doing some great work on this.

...clues that may help your member and also to report the similar problems to Chris in there.<br> '''Elaine''' I have mentioned this to Chris, who has been looking into it, but so far he has been unable to find anythi

...5w3UtInPeCvaGTB8CqK1DtgAy39ajQO9qcNFx8vAE/edit?usp=sharing] Please contact Chris at Geeks@ilovefreegle.org with any major problems.

...p. Edward has put in a change so that the Back button closes the modal. Chris will in due course see if that works in the app. Let the Geeks know if you This month Chris has produced two update releases to keep pace with the changes on the main

Chris has been given a small grant and is working on getting a new one running us

...ack of funding and/or people who can do the work. It was agreed to support Chris in looking for funding for a mobile app and also to involve Julie (Bolton)

...‘current’ mobile app; the Board has however approved funding of £2,500 to Chris Cant to develop the app in such a way that it will ‘wrap’ the new site,

c.Expenditure YTD - £1,320 ( £1,000 for mobile app top Chris and £320 for Cat’s laptop) ...ore that the £10k budget but this will be refined to fit. I’ll need to get Chris’ agreement to the pittance suggested for Mobile App work.

...pplied to NESTA for funding to build a mobile phone app. This was lead by Chris Cant (Penrith) with support from the Reps. Unfortunately we were unsuccessf

...t is pretty easy to fathom, https://dev.ilovefreegle.org/recentfreegles Chris has had to do some amendments on our app to keep up with the main code cha

Action: Edward to mention to John re asking Jane or Karen (Chris’ contact) re tax return. Chris is developing a Windows version of the app.

The website behaved, during absences by Chris and Edward, and some new tweaks especially to Chat have been made.<br> Chris<br>

*Chris is looking at in-app purchases to enable members to easily make a donation

Chris and I are both looking for something better. So if you see any problems wit A.'''Edward Hibbert It's a difficult one. Both Chris and I are struggling with it.'''

<br>Chris

...oo at the 2018 AGM and Freegle-Tech deciding on Discourse in November 2018 Chris has finally got things moving. He has submitted a proposal to the board t Please read these carefully and let Chris know if you have any comments.</br>

Chris submitted a report to us for the second quarter. We were very pleased to r

...down by month, plus total - for groups on Freegle Direct has been done by Chris: <br>

Edward, Cat, Chris and Jane let us know that they have formed a company which is separate from

Edward and Chris continue to work on Direct 2 and the Phone app. in their spare time.<br>

Chris<br>

...nt volunteer time to do so. Our current highly active geeks are Edward and Chris, and this remains a very significant risk for Freegle. *Chris Cant for the Freegle App, leading the TSW team, all round great support on

Chris<br>

...d Hibbert (develops the software, and does most of the system admin work), Chris Cant (mobile app, other sysadmin, wiki and Discourse). In the last year we ...p. We acknowledge, with many thanks, the assistance we get from Edward and Chris.

Chris has been working on a business plan, and has some external help with that.

Chris (Penrith), Jean (Ely & many others), Ollie (Otley/Director) and Christian (

Chris<br> ...ort peeps will try to sort it out or we'll contact geeks if it's urgent as Chris may be able to do something.<br>

...o message maker “.Sorry: this error occurred: TypeError: Object expected”. Chris contacted the user. The problem did not show on their other computer, so th

...ibbert (who develops the software and does most of the system admin work), Chris Cant (who maintains the mobile app, does other sysadmin and looks after Dis Chris is always responsive on queries about the app; and Jean offers assistance w

Chris wrote a script to show open OFFER and WANTED posts broken down by category

*Chris Cant (mobile app, other sysadmin, wiki and Discourse). ...e often know the answers. Backing us up, Edward knows nearly everything. Chris advises on problems concerning the app; Roger knows how the spam reporting

Chris is looking at the possibility of updating and getting the app working agai

...me updates to the code that loads the newsfeed to make it load faster, and Chris has updated the mobile app code has been updated shouldn't be too long. <br

Chris<br>

Chris<br>

A really busy month for Edward and Chris as they got the new mobile app and an app for Modtools introduced and wor

Edward and Chris have had time out which has resulted in a quieter month. <br>

Chris<br>

Chris noticed that access tokens he had just obtained no longer have expiry dates

Chris<br>

* Edward to collect Board biographies for Chris. On hold.

...geeks help keep our system running. Currently we have Edward Hibbert and Chris Cant. This year we have had some input from Nick Sellen, and Alex Hitchins

Chris<br>

*Chris Cant (mobile app, other sysadmin, wiki and Discourse). We acknowledge, with many thanks, the assistance we get from Edward and Chris.

Wanda Not sure Chris checks the MT's tools chat, probably best to get him in Tech or MT's Yahoo

Chris Mobile app hat

Chris<br>

...e to remove all data for people who aren't moderators, and which Admin (me/Chris) can use to remove all data for anyone. However removing all the data is n

Chris<br>

The team is Chris (Penrith), Edward (Edinburgh), Jacky (Norfolk), Mark (Derby) and Neil (Nort