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# FSM Committee Notes #

## June 2016 ##

* Monitoring wiki pages (Ben M: can we get notified of changes? Ben S: It's complicated)
* Media goblin accounts? - all good

## Funding ##

* - [http://www.fundraisingdirectory.com.au/bunnings-fundraising-sausage-sizzles/](http://www.fundraisingdirectory.com.au/bunnings-fundraising-sausage-sizzles/)
 - suggestion and (gold coin) donation box near the drinks{: list-style-type="no-bullet"}

* We donated about $50 to EW after the "contribute to free software" workshop last year
* Meetup.com group (currently paid by Ben S., US$89.94 each 6 months
* Internet services (System Saviour, paid by Adam Bolte
* Ben S: renew the freesoftware.org.au domain for about $15 a year
* Ben S: [MediaGoblin](MediaGoblin), mailing lists and Mumble that I host use some server resources

* Accepting donations / financial contribution

* How to hold money?{: list-style-type="no-bullet"}

* Ben F.: Investigate tax status for Bitcoin

* Damien Z.: investigate Paypal for a no bank account in Australia

* List services we need: “how can I help?”

* Delegate for regular Facebook / Twitter correspondence?{: list-style-type="no-bullet"}

* Pay our hosting costs?{: list-style-type="no-bullet"}

* Options for hosting [https://www.1984hosting.com/](https://www.1984hosting.com/){: list-style-type="no-bullet"}

## Recap last meeting ##

* Email services (freesoftware.org.au):
    * Hosted by Ben S., donated (per above)
   Ben F. corresponding re. aliases for topics and office names{: list-style-type="no-bullet"}
    * More time for discussion would be better

## Next Month ##

* Talk/Event: Adam Turner
* Gnews: Michael Verrenkamp to handle - [https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/Jun_Gnews_2016](https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/Jun_Gnews_2016)
* dinner
* Announce - Michael
* Speaker Request to mailing list - Damien
* Door Stickers & Pens: Ben M
* Timekeeping - Ben F
* Damien - Audio
* Intro & MC - Ben M - CoC, letter to mozilla, intros

## Communications ##

"contact us" link to send emails to the committee.

others to setup: finance, contact

## Planning ##

* Hosting - Talk about projector setup - Ben M.
* SFD and other major events

* [http://www.sfd.org.au/melbourne/](http://www.sfd.org.au/melbourne/)

* last years notes: [http://freesoftware.org.au/wiki/CommitteeMeetings/20150908](http://freesoftware.org.au/wiki/CommitteeMeetings/20150908)
* third Saturday of September (17th Sep)
* CFP / call for speakers? - email to mailing list - Damien

* Speakers from this year's regular meetings could be good candidates{: list-style-type="no-bullet"}

* Potential speaker: Adam Zammit - Open source/free software at A.C.S.P.R.I. (title of talk TBA) roughly 11-4{: list-style-type="no-bullet"}

* Start orgarnising timetable next committee meeting

* beginners workshop
    * could be a good future event to promote at SFD (November maybe)
    * also good event to speak about at SFD
* video conference meetup with Sydney / Jitsi for SFD
* Logo: [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:FSF-Logo_part.svg](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:FSF-Logo_part.svg)

Mar 17th - Workshop: encryption

Apr 21st - Show & Tell

May 19th - Privacy & RHoK 

Jun 16th - Adam Turner (DRM)

Jul 21st - 

Aug 18th - Beginners workshop: Bring a difficult document and view/edit it with free software

Saturday 2016-09-17: S.F.D.:  11:00 – 16:00

Oct 20th - Potential Speaker: Michael Verrenkamp - The Paradoxes of free software. The odd behaviours of users in light of logic. 

Nov 17th - 

Dec 15th - Dinner{: page-href="wiki:///CommitteeMeetings/20160604"}