Jitsi committee meeting for October the 03rd, 2013
PiratePad notes
Original available here.
- How to make a big deal of Alex's Cargo release (after the initial quiet release)
- Free software is commercial software: Alex will accept payment!
- Adam offers advice on a Bitcoin wallet for payments
- Free software is commercial software: Alex will accept payment!
- Discussion topics for this month, 17 October
- Short recap of recent activity
- SFD
- GNU 30yo!!
- Patents review submissions (Ben to mention his work)
- We appear to be heading towards a future where the web browser is the OS. Can we counter this before it happens? - Adam
- https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/javascript-trap.html
- Cloud(s) is/are great but what about freedom? - Alex and Adam
- Alternatives to GMail and other centralised mail services. - Adam
- Software usability testing? Jitsi... looking at you. :) - Adam
- Planning for the next FSM Games day
- Short recap of recent activity
- Ben S.'s work on the Innovation Patents Review
- Issues over the location of SFD 2013, and other SFD-related discussion
- Where to host images?
- Audio and video -> archive.org, but not images?
- Our own MediaGoblin instance?
- Ben F: set up a hosting on DreamHost
- http://wiki.dreamhost.com/Passenger_WSGI but note the big fat warning
- Bah. I eat warning messages for breakfast. -Adam
- http://wiki.dreamhost.com/Passenger_WSGI but note the big fat warning
- Where to host images?
Final agenda
Intro: Short recap of recent activity
- SFD
- GNU 30yo!!
- Patents review submissions
Topic 1: How to make a big deal of Alex's Cargo release (after the initial quiet release)
Topic 2: cloud-is-great-but-what-about-freedom discussion
- a good theme for the whole 2013-10-17 meeting
- ownCloud - Alex hit a bug where it would repeatedly re-upload all the files, hit a bug where it would repeatedly re-upload all the files
- Eben Moglen's speeches and calls to action for FreedomBox
- We appear to be heading towards a future where the web browser is the OS. Can we counter this before it happens? - Adam
- Alternatives to GMail and other centralised mail services. - Adam
Conclusion: Bring on the games!! (not sure how we got to that, but I'm rolling with it)
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