Committee Meeting, 3 April 2014

Original meeting notes

I like that the Etherpad agenda page is provided weeks in advance. I can immediately add items to the page as I think them up.

• Topics for upcoming meeting on 17 April (Ben S.)

• Gnews:

  • TPP
    • https://action.sumofus.org/a/trade-sustainers/4/4/
    • !!! http://sinosphere.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/03/30/large-crowds-fill-taipei-streets-in-protest-over-china-trade-bill/
  • http://cloud.blender.org/gooseberry/
  • http://www.ted.com/talks/kirby_ferguson_embrace_the_remix
  • Another possibility: http://www.crowdsupply.com/kosagi/novena-open-laptop / http://makezine.com/2014/04/02/the-worlds-first-open-source-laptop-makes-its-debut/
  • Talk by Jacob Appelbaum at Libre Planet http://media.libreplanet.org/u/zakkai/m/free-software-for-freedom-surveillance-and-you/

• Presentation:

  • Damien Zammit - flashed his corboot laptop TODO: Ben S.

• Go-to interesting features:

  • Latest free-software-capable hardware
  • Interesting speakers
  • Show and tell (hardware, or things people have been working on)

• Ben F: Invite Jon Lawrence EFA to speak on TPP (perhaps for meeting 2014-05) TODO: Ben F.

• Record of attendance at meetings

  • Provide some record of numbers - Ben S. has done this informally in the past
  • Invite attendee to create a wiki account (with their name)
    • • committee to lead by example before the next meeting
    • Adam and Ben S to establish the best way to create a user page. One on LibrePlanet wiki, which we link to?
  • Email address optional→ mailing list send invite to the person
  • Get people's names spelled correctly
  • Clarify for people how their details will be used : Yep, we should write that on the sheet.

• Timeline for upcoming (regular) meeting agenda

  • 2 weeks, too short?
  • Discuss meeting topics on mailing list; topic suggestions welcome
  • Nominate a meeting agenda person?
  • Have a separate channel suggestions for upcoming topics
    • http://wiki.freesoftware.asn.au/upcomingTopics

• Moving FSM website to somewhere we can more easily share access. Possibly the wiki too. (Ben S.)

  • Rationale: Ben S. role in day-to-day FSM likely to decrease in the medium term
  • http://freesoftware.org.au/melb/
  • Adam's machine costs him money to run & keep online
  • Backup schedule & location to be known
  • Adam to add redirections from http://freesoftware.asn.au to http://freesoftware.org.au/
  • Will redirect existing website TODO: Ben S., Adam

• Consider adopting LibrePlanet Mission Statement and Code of Conduct (Ben S.) TODO: Everyone read

  • http://libreplanet.org/wiki/LibrePlanet:Mission_Statement
  • http://libreplanet.org/wiki/LibrePlanet:Code_of_Conduct

• Next generation FSM website (Ben S.)

  • to put link to the wiki on the front page
  • twitter bootstrap
  • what to do with Australian Free Software Association
    • not home page
    • state intentions and that it doesn't just exist
  • Have FSM as a sub-domain (e.g. melbourne.freesoftware.org.au)
  • Australian site aggregates State sub-sites
    • i.e. currently just shows latest activity from FSM
    • leaves open the future emergence of state groups
  • Blog to make announcements and news more visible

• Speakers to invite

  • John Spencer (ex-VPAC) - making things! TODO: Alex to invite for 15 May?