FSM Committee Notes

June 2016

  • Monitoring wiki pages (Ben M: can we get notified of changes? Ben S: It's complicated)
  • Media goblin accounts? - all good

Funding

  • suggestion and (gold coin) donation box near the drinks{: list-style-type="no-bullet"}

  • We donated about $50 to EW after the "contribute to free software" workshop last year

  • Meetup.com group (currently paid by Ben S., US$89.94 each 6 months
  • Internet services (System Saviour, paid by Adam Bolte
  • Ben S: renew the freesoftware.org.au domain for about $15 a year

  • Ben S: MediaGoblin, mailing lists and Mumble that I host use some server resources

  • Accepting donations / financial contribution

  • How to hold money?{: list-style-type="no-bullet"}

  • Ben F.: Investigate tax status for Bitcoin

  • Damien Z.: investigate Paypal for a no bank account in Australia

  • List services we need: “how can I help?”

  • Delegate for regular Facebook / Twitter correspondence?{: list-style-type="no-bullet"}

  • Pay our hosting costs?{: list-style-type="no-bullet"}

  • Options for hosting https://www.1984hosting.com/

Recap last meeting

  • Email services (freesoftware.org.au):
    • Hosted by Ben S., donated (per above) Ben F. corresponding re. aliases for topics and office names{: list-style-type="no-bullet"}
    • More time for discussion would be better

Next Month

  • Talk/Event: Adam Turner
  • Gnews: Michael Verrenkamp to handle - https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/Jun_Gnews_2016
  • dinner
  • Announce - Michael
  • Speaker Request to mailing list - Damien
  • Door Stickers & Pens: Ben M
  • Timekeeping - Ben F
  • Damien - Audio
  • Intro & MC - Ben M - CoC, letter to mozilla, intros

Communications

"contact us" link to send emails to the committee.

others to setup: finance, contact

Planning

  • Hosting - Talk about projector setup - Ben M.

  • SFD and other major events

  • http://www.sfd.org.au/melbourne/

  • last years notes: http://freesoftware.org.au/wiki/CommitteeMeetings/20150908

  • third Saturday of September (17th Sep)

  • CFP / call for speakers? - email to mailing list - Damien

  • Speakers from this year's regular meetings could be good candidates{: list-style-type="no-bullet"}

  • Potential speaker: Adam Zammit - Open source/free software at A.C.S.P.R.I. (title of talk TBA) roughly 11-4{: list-style-type="no-bullet"}

  • Start orgarnising timetable next committee meeting

  • beginners workshop

    • could be a good future event to promote at SFD (November maybe)
    • also good event to speak about at SFD
  • video conference meetup with Sydney / Jitsi for SFD
  • Logo: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:FSF-Logo_part.svg

Mar 17th - Workshop: encryption

Apr 21st - Show & Tell

May 19th - Privacy & RHoK

Jun 16th - Adam Turner (DRM)

Jul 21st -

Aug 18th - Beginners workshop: Bring a difficult document and view/edit it with free software

Saturday 2016-09-17: S.F.D.: 11:00 – 16:00

Oct 20th - Potential Speaker: Michael Verrenkamp - The Paradoxes of free software. The odd behaviours of users in light of logic.

Nov 17th -

Dec 15th - Dinner{: page-href="wiki:///CommitteeMeetings/20160604"}