= Free Software Melbourne committee meet-up =
Attending
* Adam B.
* Ben F.
* Ben S.
* Lillian R.
Apologies
* Andrew
== Software Freedom Day 2014-09-20 (Saturday) ==
* Electron Workshop in North Melbourne
Mick Jaffen
Allow for 25–50 attendees
* Events:
* Installfest
in a separate corner; allow people to wander to other events simultaneously
* Arduino demo
* Speaker presentations
* Strive for gender balance
* Privacy and freedom
* Adam B.: find workmate to talk about email encryption
* Maia S.: Open Knowledge Foundation (ref. Lilly)
* Jacinta R.
* Dale D.: BitCoin
* Video
Suggestions include:
* “Indie Game: The Movie”? (I don't think there's any free software in there from memory -Adam)
* “Patent Absurdity” (re. Bilski patent case) http://patentabsurdity.com/
* Revolution OS
* Hope94
* The FreeBSD Story
Lev apparently has the last three. I don't know what the last two are about - DuckDuckGo and Google have failed me, but Lev used them in previous years.
* Blender demos?
* A recorded RMS talk?
Need:
* Swag — shirts / stickers/ badges?
* Catering — provider, budget
* Sponsorship:*
* Ben F.: ask VPAC
* Adam: ask SitePoint
* Ben S.: Free Software Queensland, Red Hat?
* Best to have an incorporated entity for sponsors to coordinate with
* L.U.V.wi Bmotion:
* Lilly: spot on 3RRR Byte Into It
* Open Knowledge Foundation
* Leaflet with list of free software
* ISO images
* DHCP/Switch/Samba server setup
Ben F.: hand back FSM secretary to Ben S.
* likely unavailable during late August – September 2014
Ben S.:
* To update http://www.sfd.org.au/ (point to a wiki or have Lilly provide text).
* Setup a SFD mail list
Adam B.:
* To setup a Samba/DHCP server on an EeePC.
* Put together a list of free software on a leaflet
* Download a bunch of GNU/Linux distros
== August meet-up ==
=== Task list ===
Ben S.:
* Check with Andrea of the Open Innovation Project Network about giving a talk around Copyright/Patent/Trademark or what Andrea does at the OIPN.
* Ask Les Kitchen if he would like to finish his talk about how he got into free software.
=== Thoughts ===
* Provide a 5 minute notice before a meeting needs to end so as to not run overtime.
=== Meet-up ===
Hopefully a talk by Andrea
Ask for Software Freedom Day volunteers
* Talks
* Ideas
Les Kitchen/Brian May to complete their talk about how they got into free software.
A talk on Password Managers, depending on how we go for time with the above (if Andrea can make it).
Gnews (last)
* We used ownCloud 7 collaborative document editing functionality (which was basically functional, but not ideal)
== Korean for dinner ==
