Mumble committee meeting for 19 March 2014

These are a copy of our original notes.

Topics to discuss tomorrow

• Ben has a couple of new freedom-respecting gadgets for show and tell.

  • Gluglug X60
  • Samsung Nexus S

• The Gnews:

  • GOG announcing DRM-free games for GNU/Linux (albeit proprietary)
  • LibrePlanet 2014
    • Live streaming this weekend!
  • MediaGoblin updates
    • New fundraiser in progress
    • "back doors" discovered by the Replicant project in Samsung phones
      • http://www.replicant.us/2014/03/unveiling-the-samsung-galaxy-back-door/
  • Mailpile
    • http://www.mailpile.is/
      • Discussed recently at FOSDEM - https://video.fosdem.org/2014/K1105/Saturday/Mailpile.webm
  • Windows 8 unusable? Free software to the rescue!
    • http://classicshell.net/
  • https://www.resetthenet.org/ - I haven't looked into it yet.
  • GNU social Vs Pump.io
  • SoC computers. Work brought me a CuBox-i4Pro

Suggestion: We should hit the mail list for more ideas, and not limit it to the committee. -Adam

• Committee elections
  • Do we need to change the length of the term? Agreed to go with 1 year
  • How shall we conduct the election?
    • Alex to call for nominations and count votes
    • President
      • call for nominations
      • vote by raising hands
    • Vice-President
      • call for nominations
      • vote by raising hands
    • Secretary
      • call for nominations
      • vote by raising hands
    • Treasurer
      • call for nominations
      • vote by raising hands
    • Ben to check with Damien.
    • Possible to have one person performing two roles - although President should probably be done by a dedicated person.

Also: Who of us are interested in continuing on or if we need to go head hunting to encourage particular people to turn up an nominate.

Other

• Any update on dinner?
• Should we look at changing to a different day?{: page-href="wiki:///CommitteeMeetings/20140319"}