Upcoming discussion topic ideas

Please add any thoughts for new topics here.

• The state of free software social networks including Diaspora and Identica

• Review of alternatives to Dropbox (file sharing)
  • http://sparkleshare.org/
  • http://www.melissi.org/blog/
  • http://owncloud.org/
  • http://fak3r.com/geek/howto-build-your-own-open-source-dropbox-clone/
  • https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs
  • http://freedomboxfoundation.org/

• Free software in science: ecologists talking about how the use GNU R statistics tools

• Something practical, perhaps a tutorial or hack session

• Workshop on making a gnu head in Blender

• Where do you get your free software news? Favourite websites, news feeds, audiocasts, videocasts etc.

• Book review: Free as in Freedom 2nd Edition

• Run a Debian Bug Squashing Party as a way to get people started in contributing to free software

• Contributing to h-node.com hardware database

• Visiting free software folks from other states

• My favourite free software: short reviews an interesting and widely useful piece of free software

• Unsung heros: the free software that we all use, but no-one notices - an the people who maintain them