FSM Committee Notes
June 2016
- Monitoring wiki pages (Ben M: can we get notified of changes? Ben S: It's complicated)
- Media goblin accounts? - all good
Funding
- - http://www.fundraisingdirectory.com.au/bunnings-fundraising-sausage-sizzles/ - suggestion and (gold coin) donation box near the drinks
- We donated about $50 to EW after the "contribute to free software" workshop last year
- Meetup.com group (currently paid by Ben S., US$89.94 each 6 months
- Internet services (System Saviour, paid by Adam Bolte
- Ben S: renew the freesoftware.org.au domain for about $15 a year
- Ben S: MediaGoblin, mailing lists and Mumble that I host use some server resources
- Accepting donations / financial contribution
- How to hold money?
- Ben F.: Investigate tax status for Bitcoin
- Damien Z.: investigate Paypal for a no bank account in Australia
- List services we need: “how can I help?”
- Delegate for regular Facebook / Twitter correspondence?
- Pay our hosting costs?
- Options for hosting https://www.1984hosting.com/
Recap last meeting
- Email services (freesoftware.org.au):
- Hosted by Ben S., donated (per above) Ben F. corresponding re. aliases for topics and office names
- More time for discussion would be better
Next Month
- Talk/Event: Adam Turner
- Gnews: Michael Verrenkamp to handle - https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/Jun_Gnews_2016
- dinner
- Announce - Michael
- Speaker Request to mailing list - Damien
- Door Stickers & Pens: Ben M
- Timekeeping - Ben F
- Damien - Audio
- Intro & MC - Ben M - CoC, letter to mozilla, intros
Communications
"contact us" link to send emails to the committee.
others to setup: finance, contact
Planning
- Hosting - Talk about projector setup - Ben M.
- SFD and other major events
- last years notes: http://freesoftware.org.au/wiki/CommitteeMeetings/20150908
- third Saturday of September (17th Sep)
- CFP / call for speakers? - email to mailing list - Damien
- Speakers from this year's regular meetings could be good candidates
- Potential speaker: Adam Zammit - Open source/free software at A.C.S.P.R.I. (title of talk TBA) roughly 11-4
- Start orgarnising timetable next committee meeting
- beginners workshop
- could be a good future event to promote at SFD (November maybe)
- also good event to speak about at SFD
- video conference meetup with Sydney / Jitsi for SFD
- Logo: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:FSF-Logo_part.svg
Mar 17th - Workshop: encryption
Apr 21st - Show & Tell
May 19th - Privacy & RHoK
Jun 16th - Adam Turner (DRM)
Jul 21st -
Aug 18th - Beginners workshop: Bring a difficult document and view/edit it with free software
Saturday 2016-09-17: S.F.D.: 11:00 – 16:00
Oct 20th - Potential Speaker: Michael Verrenkamp - The Paradoxes of free software. The odd behaviours of users in light of logic.
Nov 17th -
Dec 15th - Dinner