= 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)
==== Software releases ====
* ownCloud 7 is here, with server-to-server file-sharing! We used ownCloud 7 collaborative document editing functionality (which was basically functional, but not ideal). [[http://owncloud.org/]]
* DAVdroid (free software CalDAV/CardDAV sync tool) is now available on F-Droid and is fully compatible with ownCloud.
==== Did you know? ====
* [[http://www.qupzilla.com/|Qupzilla]]
==== Privacy ====
* Google in June announced plans for its own project for spy-proof email. But the addition of Yahoo is notable because the two have access to such a large chunk of world email users. In December 2013, Google had 366 million unique Gmail visitors followed by Yahoo at 273 million, according to ComScore. Both companies say the encryption tool will be an optional feature that users will have to turn on. It will rely on a version of PGP encryption, a long-tested form of encryption that has not yet been cracked. [[http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2014/08/07/yahoo-joins-google-effort-to-encrypt-email/]]
==== Campaigns ====
* AVAAZ - Stop the snooping! - "George Brandis is rushing through a plan to monitor ALL internet users in Australia -- that's information about every phone call we make, every email we send. It’s a huge privacy breach in the name of national security, but we can stop this plan before it becomes law." [[https://secure.avaaz.org/en/asio_in_your_email_loc/]]
== Korean for dinner ==
