Committee Meeting, 5 Jun 2014

Original meeting notes

Attending:

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

Agenda:

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

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.

Presentation: (approx. 20 mins)

  • Andrew Spiers : Datawrapper :use, benefits, alternatives

Gnews: (duration: 0:45)

  • Big new release, now includes Images and Videos search
  • Apple to support DuckDuckGo as a search provider in iOS.
  • Where do we start?

Meet a member: (duration: 0:30)

  • Les K. to continue on from last month

Dinner:

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

Keeping meet ups moving Aim:

  • 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

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)