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# Thursday 18 July 2013 #

| **When:** | 18:00  |
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| **Where:** | VPAC Head Office front room   Level 1  Building 91  110 Victoria Street  Dinner followed at [Grill'd](http://www.grilld.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/GRILLD-MENU-2012.pdf) (Melbourne Central). |

## Meeting summary ##

* Bianca brought in cake! And not just any cake; *vegan* cake - my favourite! :)

* While eating delicious cake, we discussed what's been happening in the free software world, including:
    * Sites still using Flash for DRM, and associated problems with needing Chrome to get the latest version of Flash. This boils down to sites mandating a specific browser. Hey, 1997 called and want their Internets back!
    * Nobody panic... but Gallium now has a [DirectX9 STATE TRACKER](http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/mesa-dev/2013-July/041900.html)!!
    * Other topics far too nefarious to be listed here!

* 18:30 - Alex's software presentation - Raster Storage Archive
    * This is a project Alex convinced his work to release as free software!
    * Alex prepared a professional video presentation (using Blender!), followed by a Q/A session.
    * Project page: [http://github.com/vpac/rsa](http://github.com/vpac/rsa)

* 19:00 - Ouya - Finally, a modern freedom-respecting gaming console?
    * [Slide presentation](https://systemsaviour.com/downloads/20130718-free_software_melbourne/)! After all, what better way to enjoy a game console than read slides about it?
    * Oh I know... Game demos!!

* ownCloud
    * 0.5.9 released yesterday
    * oh, we didn't actually get time to discuss this!!

* Pirate Party's take on copyright, patent and privacy (Ben [McGinnes](McGinnes), Pirate Party)
    * Unfortunately Ben [McGinnes](McGinnes) couldn't make it due to a small family emergency. He later sent his apologies and has offered to be available next month. 
    * We did type this up on a [PiratePad](http://piratepad.net/w4d75NrY7m) so it kinda counts...

* 20:00 - Dinner at [Grill'd](http://www.grilld.com.au/) in Melbourne Central.

* 21:30 - Finished up.

Sometimes things don't go to plan. That didn't stop us from having a fun night, and it turned out that we were struggling for time with just the two topics. A great night overall.{: page-href="wiki:///meetingNotes/20130718"}