Jitsi committee meeting for October the 03rd, 2013

PiratePad notes

Original available here.

  • How to make a big deal of Alex's Cargo release (after the initial quiet release)
    • Free software is commercial software: Alex will accept payment!
      • Adam offers advice on a Bitcoin wallet for payments
  • Discussion topics for this month, 17 October
    • Short recap of recent activity
      • SFD
      • GNU 30yo!!
      • Patents review submissions (Ben to mention his work)
    • We appear to be heading towards a future where the web browser is the OS. Can we counter this before it happens? - Adam
    • Alternatives to GMail and other centralised mail services. - Adam
    • Software usability testing? Jitsi... looking at you. :) - Adam
    • Planning for the next FSM Games day
  • Ben S.'s work on the Innovation Patents Review
  • Issues over the location of SFD 2013, and other SFD-related discussion

Final agenda

  • Intro: Short recap of recent activity

    • SFD
    • GNU 30yo!!
    • Patents review submissions
  • Topic 1: How to make a big deal of Alex's Cargo release (after the initial quiet release)

  • Topic 2: cloud-is-great-but-what-about-freedom discussion

    • a good theme for the whole 2013-10-17 meeting
    • ownCloud - Alex hit a bug where it would repeatedly re-upload all the files, hit a bug where it would repeatedly re-upload all the files
    • Eben Moglen's speeches and calls to action for FreedomBox
    • We appear to be heading towards a future where the web browser is the OS. Can we counter this before it happens? - Adam
    • Alternatives to GMail and other centralised mail services. - Adam
  • Conclusion: Bring on the games!! (not sure how we got to that, but I'm rolling with it)

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