Jitsi committee meeting for September the 18th, 2013

Action items

Adam Bolte

• See if work can lend us a 4G dongle (and determine costs associated with the plan it uses).
• Find out from Lev if Alex should bring in his camera, and if I should bring in my video camera. Alex can also bring in a tripod if required.
• Talk preparation.

Alex Fraser

• Finish Cargo. :)
• Can assist on Software Freedom Day.

Ben Finney

• Send invite e-mail regarding GNU's 30th Birthday dinner to the FSM mail list.

Ben Sturmfels

• SFD Ballarat activities

Adam Bolte and Ben Finney

• Compare notes with Ben and maybe put together a task force for finding venues on short notice.

Pirate Pad dump

The following is mostly just a dump of the Pirate Pad meeting notes (hosted http://piratepad.net/2NU7rk8qo5) with formatting fixes to look usable on the wiki.

Upcoming events

Software Freedom Day, 21st September

• Failed to find an alternate venue
  • Alternative venues (which declined) include:
  • RMIT
  • University of Melbourne never provided a response.
• No 802.11 wifi provided by the venue
  • Use a cell-phone network dongle for turning a spare PC into a wifi router?
• Adam to prepare a talk, do kitchen duties.
• AF coming for the whole day; happy to help out where needed.
• Sven dropped out, and Ben F. sadly cannot make it. :(
• Ben S. in Ballarat: Free Software for Artists http://sfd.org.au/ballarat/
  • Creative Commons licenses version 4 due for release soon
  • openclipart.org
    • http://openclipart.org/detail/19703/whale-by-stumbles
  • http://thenounproject.com/ -- http://thenounproject.com/noun/hot-springs/#icon-No2101
• Alex may be able to bring a camera (to check with Lev in case it's covered)

GNU's 30th Birthday, 28-29th September

• Hack event?
  • e.g. MediaGoblin
  • consensus: high barrier to entry, lots of organisation effort
• Dinner & Drinks
  • Hu Tong Dumpling Bar http://www.urbanspoon.com/r/71/1435735/restaurant/CBD/HuTong-Dumpling-Bar-Melbourne
  • Saturday 2013-09-28 19:00
  • Ben F. to make invite to FSM mailing list
  • Partners & children welcome
  • Call to mailing list: please bring a gnu if you have one!

Next Free Software Meet-up, 17th October

Topic options/suggestions:

• ownCloud (finally?)
• The state of free software social networks including Diaspora and Identica
• Free software trivia night.

Discussion deferred until next ctte meeting

Next committee teleconference

• Thursday 2013-10-03 20:30–21:30

Special FSM event: launch of Cargo

• separate from regular meeting. Nov 2013?
• Show videos
• Demo on several machines
• Record event on video for display online

Task force: venue scouting for FSM events

• Adam and Ben F. to coordinate
  • start with Adam's attempts for FSD 2013
    • report back at 2013-11 committee meeting
  • Find some venues at least friendly to the idea of hosting us
    • regularly
    • special events

Misc

• Host MediaGoblin on media.freesoftware.asn.au?
• Adam to be overseas Dec 2013–Jan 2014.
• Ben S attending a roundtable on Innovation Patent System this Friday.