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## Jitsi committee meeting for October the 03rd, 2013 ##

### PiratePad notes ###

Original available [here](http://piratepad.net/bHDbUPT3VW).

* How to make a big deal of Alex's Cargo release (after the initial quiet release)
    * Free software is commercial software: Alex will accept payment!
        * Adam offers advice on a Bitcoin wallet for payments
* Discussion topics for this month, 17 October
    * Short recap of recent activity
        * SFD
        * GNU 30yo!!
        * Patents review submissions (Ben to mention his work)
    * We appear to be heading towards a future where the web browser is the OS. Can we counter this before it happens? - Adam
        * [https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/javascript-trap.html](https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/javascript-trap.html)
        * Cloud(s) is/are great but what about freedom? - Alex and Adam
    * Alternatives to GMail and other centralised mail services. - Adam
    * Software usability testing? Jitsi... looking at you. :) - Adam
    * Planning for the next FSM Games day
* Ben S.'s work on the Innovation Patents Review
* Issues over the location of SFD 2013, and other SFD-related discussion
    * Where to host images?
        * Audio and video -> archive.org, but not images?
        * Our own [MediaGoblin](MediaGoblin) instance?
        * Ben F: set up a hosting on [DreamHost](DreamHost)
            * [http://wiki.dreamhost.com/Passenger_WSGI](http://wiki.dreamhost.com/Passenger_WSGI) but note the big fat warning
                * Bah. I eat warning messages for breakfast. -Adam

## Final agenda ##

* Intro: Short recap of recent activity
    * SFD
    * GNU 30yo!!
    * Patents review submissions

* Topic 1: How to make a big deal of Alex's Cargo release (after the initial quiet release)

* Topic 2: cloud-is-great-but-what-about-freedom discussion
    * a good theme for the whole 2013-10-17 meeting
    * ownCloud - Alex hit a bug where it would repeatedly re-upload all the files, hit a bug where it would repeatedly re-upload all the files
    * Eben Moglen's speeches and calls to action for [FreedomBox](FreedomBox)
    * We appear to be heading towards a future where the web browser is the OS. Can we counter this before it happens? - Adam
        * [https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/javascript-trap.html](https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/javascript-trap.html)
    * Alternatives to GMail and other centralised mail services. - Adam

* Conclusion: Bring on the games!! (not sure how we got to that, but I'm rolling with it)
    * Planning for the next FSM Games day{: page-href="wiki:///CommitteeMeetings/20131003"}