Jitsi committee meeting for September the 18th, 2013

Action items

Adam Bolte

  • See if work can lend us a 4G dongle (and determine costs associated with the plan it uses).
  • Find out from Lev if Alex should bring in his camera, and if I should bring in my video camera. Alex can also bring in a tripod if required.
  • Talk preparation.

Alex Fraiser

  • Finish Cargo. :)
  • Can assist on Software Freedom Day.

Ben Finney

  • Send invite e-mail regarding GNU's 30th Birthday dinner to the FSM mail list.

Ben Sturmfels

  • SFD Ballarat activities

Adam Bolte and Ben Finney

  • Compare notes with Ben and maybe put together a task force for finding venues on short notice.

Pirate Pad dump

The following is mostly just a dump of the Pirate Pad meeting notes (hosted http://piratepad.net/2NU7rk8qo5) with formatting fixes to look usable on the wiki.

Upcoming events

Software Freedom Day, 21st September

GNU's 30th Birthday, 28-29th September

Next Free Software Meet-up, 17th October

Topic options/suggestions:

  • ownCloud (finally?)
  • The state of free software social networks including Diaspora and Identica
  • Free software trivia night.

Discussion deferred until next ctte meeting

Next committee teleconference

  • Thursday 2013-10-03 20:30–21:30

Special FSM event: launch of Cargo

  • separate from regular meeting. Nov 2013?
  • Show videos
  • Demo on several machines
  • Record event on video for display online

Task force: venue scouting for FSM events

  • Adam and Ben F. to coordinate
    • start with Adam's attempts for FSD 2013
      • report back at 2013-11 committee meeting
    • Find some venues at least friendly to the idea of hosting us
      • regularly
      • special events

Misc

  • Host MediaGoblin on media.freesoftware.asn.au?
  • Adam to be over seas Dec 2013–Jan 2014.
  • Ben S attending a roundtable on Innovation Patent System this Friday.