• upcomingTopics

Upcoming discussion topic ideas

Please add any thoughts for new topics here.

• 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.
• GPG key signing
• 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
• Something practical, perhaps a tutorial or hack session
• 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
• My favourite free software: short reviews an interesting and useful piece of free software, may or may not be widely used
• Unsung heros: the free software that we all use, but no-one notices - an the people who maintain them
• Free software trivia night
• 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