= Upcoming discussion topic ideas =
2016:
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= Ideas =
Please add any thoughts for new topics here.
* Free software trivia night
* Free Your Phone workshop for installing Replicant or similar. Note that Replicant is only supported on a very limited number of devices, so would require that people came with a known compatible device eg. bought from eBay. For people who don't have a compatible device and aren't able to buy a new one, we could help them install F-Droid free software app store.
* GNU Parallel
* Pagekite
* The state of free software social networks including Diaspora and Identica
* Review of alternatives to Dropbox (file sharing)
* http://sparkleshare.org/
* http://www.melissi.org/blog/
* http://owncloud.org/
* http://fak3r.com/geek/howto-build-your-own-open-source-dropbox-clone/
* https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs
* http://freedomboxfoundation.org/
* Free software in science: ecologists talking about how the use GNU R statistics tools
* Workshop on making a gnu head in Blender
* Where do you get your free software news? Favourite websites, news feeds, audiocasts, videocasts etc.
* Book review: Free as in Freedom 2nd Edition
* Run a Debian Bug Squashing Party as a way to get people started in contributing to free software
* Contributing to h-node.com hardware database
* Visiting free software folks from other states
* Unsung heros: the free software that we all use, but no-one notices - an the people who maintain them
* Free and open source-friendly employers - both technology companies and others, e.g. how do you make the print shop your work at more free software friendly.
* How can we be more involved with [[http://libreplanet.org/|LibrePlanet]]?
* USB-N dongles
* e-book readers
* DRM in HTML 5
= Past ideas =
These are events and topics which have been used in the past.
* My favourite free software: short reviews an interesting and useful piece of free software, may or may not be widely used
* GPG key signing
* Something practical, perhaps a tutorial or hack session
