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Committee Meeting, 2014-07-03

Original meeting notes

Attending

  • Adam
  • Ben F.

Apologies

  • Ben S.
  • Andrew S.

Meet-up Agenda

Action Item Status

  • Update on tasks from previous meetings
    • Ben S: Still to talk to large LibrePlanet group and contact admins about using their wiki (assumed to be on hold)
    • Ben F.: Successfully contacted Jon Lawrence of EFA and scheduled a meeting
  • Confirm details of upcoming meeting (Thu 2014-07-17)
  • Andrew S. investigation of alternative dinner venues
  • Ben F. now has access card entry for VPAC training room, hooray!

Infrastructure

  • Mailing list hosting
    • Members have received bounces from posts to the list
    • Ben F.: look into set Mail-Followup-To set to the general discussion forum?
    • Currently hosted from Ben S.'s host, not for administration by others
    • Ben F. to investigate hosting mailing lists from own server
      • improve expected up-time, administration by multiple FSM committee members

Meeting Structure for 2014-07-17, 18:00–20:00

Gnews: (duration: 0:45)

Adam S.: send Gnews notes to (acting) Secretary prior to meeting

  • Software Releases
    • ownCloud 7 beta 1
    • webODF stable release
  • Campaigns
    • Not too much yet. TPP stuff, but will be over before the meeting.
  • Other
    • XPrivacy (article here)
    • Android app, called “Calculate!” and looks like a simple calculator, but actually dials someone or messages or some other action
      • Designed as an emergency “help I'm under duress” app

Meet a member: (duration: 0:15)

  • Les K. to continue on from the month before? When is Les back?
  • Adam S.: ping Les K. to see if he's able and willing. (e-mail sent 2014-07-03)
  • If no reply from Les K., ask another person to be our Meet a Member

Main Feature (approx. 0:45)

  • Jon Lawrence of EFA
    • Described Jon's role as being dicussion lead, no fixed presentation expected.
  • Do we need another topic? Perhaps as a backup in case Jon suddenly can't make it (which we seem to have happen a lot with guest speakers)? Suggestions?
    • Have the discussion anyway; the preference is that Jon L. leads it, but we can have the discussion in his absence.
    • Adam B. to become up-to-date on latest TPP developments, as back-up discussion lead.
    • Ben F.: find and link graphic-novel explanation of TPP's effects on trade, especially Australia

Other

Dinner

  • Classic Curry (or other suggestion)

Goals, Ideas and Suggestions

  • Publicise committee meetings so the group knows that they happen, and when
  • Let general discussion forum know where to find committee meeting notes after they're published
    • Hope to get more involvement and suggestions for what our elected committee should do :-)

Future meeting topics

  • Adam B.: Password management: freedom and privacy
  • (someone): Mobile apps to help with freedom and privacy (e.g. emergency distress call, track a stolen phone, detect MitM, etc.)

Other