Committee Meeting, 5 Jun 2014

Original meeting notes

Attending

• Adam B.
• Andrew S.
• Ben F.
• Ben S.

Meeting checklist

1. Sign on door
2. Name tags.
3. Clean-up when done
   • Lights
   • Power and computers reconnected
   • Chairs

Meet-up Agenda

Action Item Status

Update on tasks from last meeting (Thu 2014-05-01)

• Ben S: Still to talk to large LibrePlanet group and contact admins about using their wiki
• Ben F.: no response yet from Jon Lawrence of EFA, try contacting again for TPP talk at FSM meeting

Confirm details of upcoming meeting (Thu 2014-06-19)

• Security protocols effectively limit meeting to finish before 20:30, so we should aim to finish by 20:00.

Meeting Structure

Gnews: (duration: 0:45)

• Email Self-Defense https://emailselfdefense.fsf.org/
• Reset the Net https://www.resetthenet.org/ (and Privacy Pack http://pack.resetthenet.org/?)
• Where is RedPhone on F-Droid? "We don't distribute our apps on f-droid because we feel it's insecure" https://github.com/WhisperSystems/RedPhone/issues/143
• Google trying out End-to-End Email Encryption http://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com.au/2014/06/making-end-to-end-encryption-easier-to.html
  • Can't import keyrings larger than around 128Kb.
  • No MIME support.
  • No option to encrypt to self by default.
• DuckDuckGo news
  • Big new release, now includes Images and Videos search
  • Apple to support DuckDuckGo as a search provider in iOS.
• TrueCrypt
  • Where do we start?
• EFF/FSF's Tor Challenge https://www.eff.org/torchallenge
• Firefox 30.0

Meet a member: (duration: 0:30)

• Les K. to continue on from last month

Main Presentation (approx. 20 mins)

Andrew Spiers : Datawrapper :use, benefits, alternatives

Other

• Secretary role for July 17th (see below)

Dinner

• Classic Curry
• Andrew S. to investigate a potential on Lygon Street

Goals, Ideas and Suggestions

Goals

• Keeping meet ups moving
• make sure we can fit everything in
• start and finish on time to make dinner/travel predictable

Ideas

• Meeting chair: schedule segments and time keeper
• 2014-06-19: Ben F.
• decide on an end time
• start as soon as possible, don't wait around for people

Other

• Secretary role while Ben S. is away (June/July)
  • http://freesoftware.org.au/wiki/Secretary
  • 2014-06-19: Ben F.
  • 2014-07-17: TBD (delegate chosen by president, Adam)