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= Thursday 20 June 2013 = ||<style="border:none; vertical-align: top;"> '''When:''' ||<style="border:none;"> 18:00 || ||<style="border:none; vertical-align: top;"> '''Where:''' ||<style="border:none;"> VPAC Head Office Training Room<<BR>> Level 1<<BR>>Building 91<<BR>>110 Victoria Street<<BR>>Dinner followed at [[http://classiccurry.com/city_menu.html|Classic Curry]]. || == Meeting summary == * Started with a brainstorm of topic ideas. Ideas included: * Ouya - game console based upon Android, and supposedly open. * Google Talk being replaced by Google Hangouts * PRISM * Committee election - Led by Ben Sturmfels * The reasons to have dedicated committee members include adding redundancy and stability to the group. * After some discussion, it was agreed that committee members are to hold their position for roughly 6 months, after which time another election will take place. If you couldn't make the meeting, you won't have to wait long for your chance. * Next election will take place during our January meet-up (possibly during a BBQ). * Elected people, positions and responsibilities include: * President: Alex Fraser * Being a point of contact for the group * Defacto responsibility for everything if not otherwise delegated * Vice President: Ben Sturmfels * Taking in turns with President * Secretary: Adam Bolte * Sending out announcements to our mailing lists * Publishing discussion topic summaries. * Treasurer: Ben Finney * Handling collected donations * Many other people also expressed interest in helping to share responsibilities. Thanks to everyone. * Tasks that need to be handled to see our group meetings run smoothly include: * Thinking up topics. * Coerce people into talking about them. :) * Booking a venue. * Showing up early to let people in. * Organising food and drink. * Promoting our group outside of our mailing list. * The Fetch ([[http://thefetch.com/]]?) * What's On in Melbourne * [[http://www.rrr.org.au/|Triple R]] * Chairing/coordinating the discussion - making sure we finish up on time * Software Freedom Day * Special once-off events such as Brett Smith's talk from the FSF. * [[http://www.freesoftware.asn.au/|Website]], [[http://wiki.freesoftware.asn.au/|wiki]], [[http://lists.softwarefreedom.com.au/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/aust-free-software|mailing lists]] maintenance * [[http://h-node.org/|H-Node]] (and other hardware considerations) - Adam Bolte * If you haven't already done so, stop reading these notes and go add your hardware to the [[http://h-node.org/|h-node.org]] database right now! It is important to do this regardless of how well your hardware may or may not work. * Hardware must be tested with a fully free-software distribution such as [[https://trisquel.info/|Trisquel]] to qualify, which can be annoying since many of these free software distributions are slow to support newer hardware. * The h-node wiki has a [[http://h-node.org/wiki/page/en/Discover-your-hardware|Discover your hardware]] page that describes how to use dmidecide, lspci, lsusb and lscpu for hardware identification. * Bleeding edge GPU/APU graphics compatibility information might be available from the [[http://www.x.org/wiki/intel|intel]], [[http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/|nouveau]] and [[http://www.x.org/wiki/radeon|radeon]] project wiki pages. * It is possible to make an educated guess as to how well a computer might function with operating systems that comply with the [[https://www.fsf.org/|FSF]]'s [[https://www.gnu.org/distros/free-system-distribution-guidelines.html|Guidelines for Free System Distributions]]. * [[https://www.thinkpenguin.com/|Think Penguin]] - Ben Finney * Hardware that has been thoroughly tested to meet the Free Software Foundation's strict guidelines. * The guys there are regulars on the [[https://trisquel.info/|Trisquel]] site and eager to help work out compatibility issues and the like. * [[https://github.com/vpac/rsa|Raster Storage Archive]] is a Java-based project to help store and process geospatial raster datasets, optionally with multiple bands and a temporal component. * Alex Fraser has been working on it for 3 years, but only very recently has the project been released as free software, and under the GPLv3 no less. * [[http://www.softwarefreedomday.org/|Software Freedom Day]] - general discussion led by Ben Sturmfels. * Definitely some interest in organising something, however we don't want anyone to suffer from burnout. * Possible ideas include: * Could be low-key. eg. Get together at a pub, restaurant or a BBQ. * Write to local papers to highlight the importance of free software, in case they are interested in including an article on it for SFD. * [[https://trisquel.info/|Trisquel]] [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Installfest#Installfests|installfest]]! Hopefully Trisquel 6.5 will be out by then? Could be combined with Q/A sessions, software demos and gaming, as well going out as a group somewhere to lunch. * Talks are a fairly small amount of work to organise. * Maybe we can just help LUV with the organisation. eg. we could organise food and tidying up (apparently Lev etc. stayed late to do this last time). * Depending on our goals, we may be unable to take on organisation outright, but we are interested in helping. * We need to register before July 21 to receive a shipment of promotional material on time. * Ben Sturmfels to further discuss with Lev to better determine what extent LUV would play, and what ideas they might be happy to support. * Last but not least: Snacks * Ben F and Ben M have generously volunteered to be in charge of organising something for our next meet-up. * Dinner at Classic Curry * Topics included: * [[http://bitcoin.org/|Bitcoin]] * Debian and [[http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/fsf-collab-discuss|failed FSF compliance discussions]] * Proposed changes for the Debian release cycle, where testing is always in a releasable state. * Programming in [[http://ocaml.org/|OCaml]] * [[http://owncloud.org/|ownCloud]] (is our new president secretly using Dropbox???) * [[https://identi.ca/|Identi.ca]] to be replaced with [[http://pump.io/|Pump.io]] ([[https://identi.ca/doc/pumpio|sometime this week]]!), with the [[http://status.net/|StatusNet]] fork [[https://www.gnu.org/software/social/|GNU Social]] to take over leading the !StatusNet code-base. * New [[http://www.mediagoblin.org/|MediaGoblin]] release (and probably with lots of baby photos floating around the web to help show it off!) * Is OpenID dying? |
Thursday 20 June 2013
When: | 18:00 |
Where: | VPAC Head Office Training Room Level 1 Building 91 110 Victoria Street Dinner followed at Classic Curry. |
Meeting summary
- Started with a brainstorm of topic ideas. Ideas included:
- Ouya - game console based upon Android, and supposedly open.
- Google Talk being replaced by Google Hangouts
- PRISM
- Committee election - Led by Ben Sturmfels
- The reasons to have dedicated committee members include adding redundancy and stability to the group.
- After some discussion, it was agreed that committee members are to hold their position for roughly 6 months, after which time another election will take place. If you couldn't make the meeting, you won't have to wait long for your chance.
- Next election will take place during our January meet-up (possibly during a BBQ).
- Elected people, positions and responsibilities include:
- President: Alex Fraser
- Being a point of contact for the group
- Defacto responsibility for everything if not otherwise delegated
- Vice President: Ben Sturmfels
- Taking in turns with President
- Secretary: Adam Bolte
- Sending out announcements to our mailing lists
- Publishing discussion topic summaries.
- Treasurer: Ben Finney
- Handling collected donations
- President: Alex Fraser
- Many other people also expressed interest in helping to share responsibilities. Thanks to everyone.
- Tasks that need to be handled to see our group meetings run smoothly include:
- Thinking up topics.
- Coerce people into talking about them.
- Booking a venue.
- Showing up early to let people in.
- Organising food and drink.
- Promoting our group outside of our mailing list.
- The Fetch (http://thefetch.com/?)
- What's On in Melbourne
- Triple R
- Chairing/coordinating the discussion - making sure we finish up on time
- Software Freedom Day
- Special once-off events such as Brett Smith's talk from the FSF.
- Website, wiki, mailing lists maintenance
- H-Node (and other hardware considerations) - Adam Bolte
- If you haven't already done so, stop reading these notes and go add your hardware to the h-node.org database right now! It is important to do this regardless of how well your hardware may or may not work.
- Hardware must be tested with a fully free-software distribution such as Trisquel to qualify, which can be annoying since many of these free software distributions are slow to support newer hardware.
- The h-node wiki has a Discover your hardware page that describes how to use dmidecide, lspci, lsusb and lscpu for hardware identification.
- Bleeding edge GPU/APU graphics compatibility information might be available from the intel, nouveau and radeon project wiki pages.
- It is possible to make an educated guess as to how well a computer might function with operating systems that comply with the FSF's Guidelines for Free System Distributions.
- Think Penguin - Ben Finney
- Hardware that has been thoroughly tested to meet the Free Software Foundation's strict guidelines.
- The guys there are regulars on the Trisquel site and eager to help work out compatibility issues and the like.
- Raster Storage Archive is a Java-based project to help store and process geospatial raster datasets, optionally with multiple bands and a temporal component.
- Alex Fraser has been working on it for 3 years, but only very recently has the project been released as free software, and under the GPLv3 no less.
- Software Freedom Day - general discussion led by Ben Sturmfels.
- Definitely some interest in organising something, however we don't want anyone to suffer from burnout.
- Possible ideas include:
- Could be low-key. eg. Get together at a pub, restaurant or a BBQ.
- Write to local papers to highlight the importance of free software, in case they are interested in including an article on it for SFD.
- Trisquel installfest! Hopefully Trisquel 6.5 will be out by then? Could be combined with Q/A sessions, software demos and gaming, as well going out as a group somewhere to lunch.
- Talks are a fairly small amount of work to organise.
- Maybe we can just help LUV with the organisation. eg. we could organise food and tidying up (apparently Lev etc. stayed late to do this last time).
- Depending on our goals, we may be unable to take on organisation outright, but we are interested in helping.
- We need to register before July 21 to receive a shipment of promotional material on time.
- Ben Sturmfels to further discuss with Lev to better determine what extent LUV would play, and what ideas they might be happy to support.
- Last but not least: Snacks
- Ben F and Ben M have generously volunteered to be in charge of organising something for our next meet-up.
- Dinner at Classic Curry
- Topics included:
- Bitcoin
- Debian and failed FSF compliance discussions
- Proposed changes for the Debian release cycle, where testing is always in a releasable state.
- Programming in OCaml
- ownCloud (is our new president secretly using Dropbox???)
- Identi.ca to be replaced with Pump.io (sometime this week!), with the StatusNet fork GNU Social to take over leading the StatusNet code-base.
- New MediaGoblin release (and probably with lots of baby photos floating around the web to help show it off!)
- Is OpenID dying?
- Topics included: