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== Jitsi committee meeting for October the 03rd, 2013 ==

=== PiratePad notes ===
Original available [[http://piratepad.net/bHDbUPT3VW|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
     * https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/javascript-trap.html
     * Cloud(s) is/are great but what about freedom? - Alex and 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
   * Where to host images?
     * Audio and video -> archive.org, but not images?
     * Our own MediaGoblin instance?
     * Ben F: set up a hosting on DreamHost
       * http://wiki.dreamhost.com/Passenger_WSGI but note the big fat warning
         * Bah. I eat warning messages for breakfast. -Adam

== 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
     * https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/javascript-trap.html
   * 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)
   * Planning for the next FSM Games day