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= Committee Meeting, 2014-07-03 =

[[https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/fsm-ctte-20140703|Original meeting notes]]

== Attending ==
  * Adam B.
  * Ben F.

=== Apologies ===
  * Ben S.
  * Andrew S.

== Meet-up Agenda ==

=== Action Item Status ===
   * Update on tasks from previous meetings 
    * Ben S: Still to talk to large LibrePlanet group and contact admins about using their wiki (assumed to be on hold) 
    * Ben F.: Successfully contacted Jon Lawrence of EFA and scheduled a meeting
   * Confirm details of upcoming meeting (Thu 2014-07-17) 
   * Andrew S. investigation of alternative dinner venues
   * Ben F. now has access card entry for VPAC training room, hooray!

=== Infrastructure ===
  * Mailing list hosting
    * Members have received bounces from posts to the list
    * '''Ben F.''': look into set Mail-Followup-To set to the general discussion forum?
    * Currently hosted from Ben S.'s host, not for administration by others
    * '''Ben F.''' to investigate hosting mailing lists from own server
      * improve expected up-time, administration by multiple FSM committee members

== Meeting Structure for 2014-07-17, 18:00–20:00 ==

=== Gnews: (duration: 0:45) ===

'''Adam B.''': send Gnews notes to (acting) Secretary prior to meeting

  * Software Releases
    * [[http://owncloud.org/seven/|ownCloud 7 beta 2]] - Official support for DB migration (eg. SQLite to MySQL) via the included data migration tool. AGPL 3
    * [[http://www.webodf.org/news/2014-06-30.html|webODF 0.5.0]] (stable release) - entirely written in JavaScript, HTML and CSS. Provides OpenDocument Text file support. AGPL 3
    * [[http://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/topics/releases/2014.1.7.html|Salt 2014.1.7]] - bug fixe release. Apache 2.0
    * [[https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2014-07/msg02507.html|QEMU 2.1.0-rc2]] - improved Allwinner SoC emulation, more complete AArch64 handling, USB support for file-sharing via MTP emulation, mouse wheel support for the SDL 2.0 interface. GPL 2 / LGPL 2.1


  * Campaigns
    * Not too much yet. TPP stuff, but will be over before the meeting.

  * Other
    * XPrivacy (article here)
    * Android app, called “Calculate!” and looks like a simple calculator, but actually dials someone or messages or some other action
      * Designed as an emergency “help I'm under duress” app

=== Meet a member: (duration: 0:15) ===

  * Les K. to continue on from the month before? When is Les back?
  * '''Adam B.''': ping Les K. to see if he's able and willing. (e-mail sent 2014-07-03)
    * Unable to this month, but seems will be back for next time.
    * Brian May agreed to speak, but mentioned he has to leave no later than 8pm.
    * Chris Samuel provided the following, to be considered CC-BY:

My first taste of Free Software was around 1990-92 when I was a the University 
of Wales, Aberystwyth, and I was helping out at the Computer Unit there.  I 
was asked to build the latest version of X11 (then X11R5) for the MIPS based 
DECstations in the graphics lab.   That was my first taste of free software.  
Next on the list was getting GCC (1.x from memory) going too, which took many 
hours to compiler a full bootstrap.

I got into Linux around 1993 when I needed something at work better than KA9Q 
for getting onto the systems and I had friends who were already using it (and 
one contributing to the kernel).  I got my own PC to run Linux on that same 
year and never looked back.  I've gone from using a friends distro to the MCC 
Interim distribution through Slackware to Red Hat to Mandrake to Mandriva to 
Gentoo and finally (for now) to Kubuntu. 

In early 1994 I went to work at a research lab in the UK for a group doing 
portable compiler development.  They had about a dozen different UNIX variants 
on almost as many hardware platforms and so having a consistent set of tools 
was vital.   So we would build bash, zsh, the AMD automounter, GCC, GNU Make, 
GNU fileutils, GNU tar, Perl, etc, etc, etc on each of them.   Well, apart from 
SCO Unix where we couldn't use the AMD automounter as they hadn't gotten 
around to implementing symbolic links then. 

So I came into free software from perhaps a different angle from others in the 
group, that of portability of toolsets, something that was vital back then and 
which was possible *because* everyone could contribute back to the pool and 
those changes could be passed on to others.


=== Main Feature (approx. 0:45) ===

  * Jon Lawrence of EFA
    * Described Jon's role as being dicussion lead, no fixed presentation expected.
  * Do we need another topic? Perhaps as a backup in case Jon suddenly can't  make it (which we seem to have happen a lot with guest speakers)?   Suggestions?
    * Have the discussion anyway; the preference is that Jon L. leads it, but we can have the discussion in his absence.
    * Adam B. to become up-to-date on latest TPP developments, as back-up discussion lead.
    * Ben F.: find and link graphic-novel explanation of TPP's effects on trade, especially Australia

=== Other ===

  * '''Ben F.''': Secretary role for meeting as per [[http://freesoftware.org.au/wiki/Secretary]]

=== Dinner ===

  * Classic Curry (or other suggestion) 

== Goals, Ideas and Suggestions ==

  * Publicise committee meetings so the group knows that they happen, and when
  * Let general discussion forum know where to find committee meeting notes after they're published
    * Hope to get more involvement and suggestions for what our elected committee should do :-)

== Future meeting topics ==

  * '''Adam B.''': Password management: freedom and privacy
  * (someone): Mobile apps to help with freedom and privacy (e.g. emergency distress call, track a stolen phone, detect MitM, etc.)

== Other ==