Free Software Melbourne committee meet-up

Attending

• Adam B.
• Ben F.
• Ben S.
• Lillian R.

Apologies

• Andrew

Software Freedom Day 2014-09-20 (Saturday)

• Electron Workshop in North Melbourne
  • Mick Jaffen

Allow for 25–50 attendees

• Events:
  • Installfest
    • in a separate corner; allow people to wander to other events simultaneously
  • Arduino demo
  • Speaker presentations
    • Strive for gender balance
    • Privacy and freedom
    • Adam B.: find workmate to talk about email encryption
    • Maia S.: Open Knowledge Foundation (ref. Lilly)
    • Jacinta R.
    • Dale D.: BitCoin
  • Video
    • Suggestions include:
    • “Indie Game: The Movie”? (I don't think there's any free software in there from memory -Adam)
    • “Patent Absurdity” (re. Bilski patent case) http://patentabsurdity.com/
    • Revolution OS
    • Hope94
    • The FreeBSD Story Lev apparently has the last three. I don't know what the last two are about - DuckDuckGo and Google have failed me, but Lev used them in previous years.
    • Blender demos?
    • A recorded RMS talk?

Need:

• Swag — shirts / stickers/ badges?
• Catering — provider, budget
• Sponsorship:*
  • Ben F.: ask VPAC
  • Adam: ask SitePoint
  • Ben S.: Free Software Queensland, Red Hat?
  • Best to have an incorporated entity for sponsors to coordinate with
    • L.U.V.wi Bmotion:
  • Lilly: spot on 3RRR Byte Into It
  • Open Knowledge Foundation
• Leaflet with list of free software
• ISO images
• DHCP/Switch/Samba server setup

Ben F.: hand back FSM secretary to Ben S.

• likely unavailable during late August – September 2014

Ben S.:

• To update http://www.sfd.org.au/ (point to a wiki or have Lilly provide text).
• Setup a SFD mail list

Adam B.:

• To setup a Samba/DHCP server on an EeePC.
• Put together a list of free software on a leaflet
• Download a bunch of GNU/Linux distros

August meet-up

Task list

Ben S.:

• Check with Andrea of the Open Innovation Project Network about giving a talk around Copyright/Patent/Trademark or what Andrea does at the OIPN.
• Ask Les Kitchen if he would like to finish his talk about how he got into free software.

Thoughts

• Provide a 5 minute notice before a meeting needs to end so as to not run overtime.

Meet-up

Hopefully a talk by Andrea

Ask for Software Freedom Day volunteers

• Talks
• Ideas

Les Kitchen/Brian May to complete their talk about how they got into free software.

A talk on Password Managers, depending on how we go for time with the above (if Andrea can make it).

Gnews (last)

• We used ownCloud 7 collaborative document editing functionality (which was basically functional, but not ideal)

Korean for dinner