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/ - suggestion and (gold coin) donation box near the drinks

• 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, mailing lists and Mumble that I host use some server resources

• Accepting donations / financial contribution

• How to hold money?

• 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?

• Pay our hosting costs?

• Options for hosting https://www.1984hosting.com/

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
  • 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
• dinner
• Announce - Michael
• Speaker Request to mailing list - Damien
• Door Stickers & Pens: Ben M
• Timekeeping - Ben F
• Damian - 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/

• last years notes: 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

• Potential speaker: Adam Zammit - Open source/free software at A.C.S.P.R.I. (title of talk TBA) roughly 11-4

• 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

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