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= FSM Committee Notes =
== June 2016 ==

 * Monitoring wiki pages (Ben M: can we get notified of changes? Ben S: It's complicated)
 * Media goblin accounts? - all good


== Funding ==
      - http://www.fundraisingdirectory.com.au/bunnings-fundraising-sausage-sizzles/
      - suggestion and (gold coin) donation box near the drinks

  * We donated about $50 to EW after the "contribute to free software" workshop last year
  * Meetup.com group (currently paid by Ben S., US$89.94 each 6 months
  * Internet services (System Saviour, paid by Adam Bolte
  * Ben S: renew the freesoftware.org.au domain for about $15 a year
  * Ben S: MediaGoblin, mailing lists and Mumble that I host use some server resources

  * Accepting donations / financial contribution

      How to hold money?

    * Ben F.: Investigate tax status for Bitcoin

    * Damien Z.: investigate Paypal for a no bank account in Australia

  * List services we need: “how can I help?”

      Delegate for regular Facebook / Twitter correspondence?

    Pay our hosting costs?

    Options for hosting https://www.1984hosting.com/



== Recap last meeting ==
 * Email services (freesoftware.org.au):
     Hosted by Ben S., donated (per above)
     Ben F. corresponding re. aliases for topics and office names
  * More time for discussion would be better


== Next Month ==
 * Talk/Event: Adam Turner
 * Gnews: Michael Verrenkamp to handle - https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/Jun_Gnews_2016
 * dinner
 * Announce - Michael
 * Speaker Request to mailing list - Damien
 * Door Stickers & Pens: Ben M
 * Timekeeping - Ben F
 * Damian - Audio
 * Intro & MC - Ben M - CoC, letter to mozilla, intros
 

== Communications ==
* "contact us" link to send emails to the committee.
* others to setup: finance, contact


== Planning ==
 * Hosting - Talk about projector setup - Ben M.
 * SFD and other major events

     * http://www.sfd.org.au/melbourne/

    * last years notes: http://freesoftware.org.au/wiki/CommitteeMeetings/20150908
    * third Saturday of September (17th Sep)
    * CFP / call for speakers? - email to mailing list - Damien

        Speakers from this year's regular meetings could be good candidates

      Potential speaker: Adam Zammit - Open source/free software at A.C.S.P.R.I. (title of talk TBA) roughly 11-4

    * Start orgarnising timetable next committee meeting
 * beginners workshop
     * could be a good future event to promote at SFD (November maybe)
     * also good event to speak about at SFD
 * video conference meetup with Sydney / Jitsi for SFD
 * Logo: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:FSF-Logo_part.svg
 

* Mar 17th - Workshop: encryption

* Apr 21st - Show & Tell

* May 19th - Privacy & RHoK 

* Jun 16th - Adam Turner (DRM)

* Jul 21st - 

* Aug 18th - Beginners workshop: Bring a difficult document and view/edit it with free software

* Saturday 2016-09-17: S.F.D.:  11:00 – 16:00

* Oct 20th - Potential Speaker: Michael Verrenkamp - The Paradoxes of free software. The odd behaviours of users in light of logic. 

* Nov 17th - 

* Dec 15th - Dinner