## 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"}
