Committee Meeting, 1 May 2014

Original meeting notes

Attending:

• Adam B.
• Ben F.
• Ben S.

Apologies:

• Andrew S.

Agenda:

Update on tasks from last meeting.

• invite Jon Lawrence to talk about TPP in future (Ben F.)
  • No reply in April, request re-sent 2014-05-01
  • http://yro.slashdot.org/story/14/04/30/182258/maintaining-internet-freedom-isnt-easy-video - Maintaining Internet Freedom Isn't Easy (Video)
• redirect existing .asn.au to new .org.au site (Ben S. and Adam)
• read the proposed code of conduct and mission statement (everyone)
• invite John Spencer to talk (Alex)
• test creating profiles on wiki/LibrePlanet wiki (Ben S. and Adam)

Discussion on proposed code of conduct and mission statement.

• http://libreplanet.org/wiki/LibrePlanet:Mission_Statement
• http://libreplanet.org/wiki/LibrePlanet:Code_of_Conduct
  • Ben F.: not sure “talk about freedom” belongs in the CoC, but no strong objection
• Link from FSM to a //particular revision// of the documents at LibrePlanet
  • http://libreplanet.org/wiki?title=LibrePlanet:About/Mission_Statement&oldid=33771
  • http://libreplanet.org/wiki?title=LibrePlanet:About/Code_of_Conduct&oldid=33189
• All happy. Ben S to email Andrew to see what he thinks, if ok, we'll put up link on website.
• (Ben S.) Find a close equivalent large-city group in LibrePlanet, share notes with them about collaboration in websites
• (Ben S.) Email the LibrePlanet admins

Topics/speakers for meet up on 15 May 2014 Gnews:

• new Firefox - http://news.slashdot.org/story/14/04/29/1638220/firefox-29-redesign (removed tabs on bottom, toolbar in Windows, the Firefox button, the add-on bar, etc. - http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?p=13350353&sid=cee01d7621130bd32543a5154b4419c9#p13350353 ). Feels faster and less stable to me.
• new Screen - https://savannah.gnu.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=7961
• new OpenSSH - http://it.slashdot.org/story/14/04/30/1822209/openssh-no-longer-has-to-depend-on-openssl
• new Mailman (with Twitter bootstrap!) - http://news.slashdot.org/story/14/04/29/0253247/gnu-mailman-3-enters-beta (demo: https://lists.stg.fedoraproject.org/archives/ )

• patents: Supreme Court Makes It Easier To Get Lawyers Fees In Patent Cases <

  http://yro.slashdot.org/story/14/04/30/1555231/supreme-court-makes-it-easier-to-get-lawyers-fees-in-patent-cases>
• MediaGoblin campaign a success!
• http://directory.fsf.org/
• All Packages Needed For FreedomBox Now In Debian - http://linux-beta.slashdot.org/story/14/04/16/1355220/all-packages-needed-for-freedombox-now-in-debian
• New Firefox and Chrome extension - https://www.eff.org/privacybadger

Presentation:

• Bitcoin: The introduction and demo
  • ATM at the Hub - uses https://lamassu.is/
  • http://www.australianbitcoinatms.net/
• idea: ask an individual to talk about their interests and what got them into Free Software
  • Ben to email Les to talk about his interests (done)
• Adam to email Andrew about possible future talk of his choice (done)

Dinner:

Update on moving website to Adam's VPS

• could we just merge our wiki into the LibrePlanet wiki?
• new shiny Mailman?{: page-href="wiki:///CommitteeMeetings/20140501"}