Upcoming discussion topic ideas

2016:

Ideas

Please add any thoughts for new topics here.

• Free software trivia night
• Free Your Phone workshop for installing Replicant or similar. Note that Replicant is only supported on a very limited number of devices, so would require that people came with a known compatible device eg. bought from eBay. For people who don't have a compatible device and aren't able to buy a new one, we could help them install F-Droid free software app store.

• GNU Parallel

• Pagekite

• 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

• 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

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

• Free and open source-friendly employers - both technology companies and others, e.g. how do you make the print shop your work at more free software friendly.

• How can we be more involved with LibrePlanet?

• USB-N dongles

• e-book readers

• DRM in HTML 5

Past ideas

These are events and topics which have been used in the past.

• My favourite free software: short reviews an interesting and useful piece of free software, may or may not be widely used

• GPG key signing

• Something practical, perhaps a tutorial or hack session