# 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"}
