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# Thursday 17 October 2013 #

| **When:** | 18:00  |
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| **Where:** | VPAC Head Office front room   Level 1  Building 91  110 Victoria Street  Pizza's provided by VPAC. |

## Meeting summary ##

* Kicked off with some discussion on how Software Freedom Day went in Melbourne and Ballarat, as well as Ben's work on gathering patent review submissions.

* Alex Fraser gave a talk on the status of his Cargo release, provided some details about how the game was developed, and there was some discussion around options for promoting the game.

* Adam Bolte showed off a few of the SaaS applications running on his home server, such as ownCloud and Tiny Tiny RSS. Slides have been made available [here](https://systemsaviour.com/downloads/20131017-free_software_melbourne/).

* Free pizza, thanks to VPAC for sponsoring.

* Bianca Gibson discussed ways to identify and avoid [volunteer burnout](http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Preventing_volunteer_burnout).{: page-href="wiki:///meetingNotes/20131017"}