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meeting minutes December 2014
by Fraser Tweedale 15 Dec '14

15 Dec '14

We had a record attendance last Thursday (December 11), so thanks to everyone who came along! Thanks also to Clinton for running the OSDC recap with me. Minutes below. Due to a travel-heavy couple of months, the next meeting will either be in late January (after linux.conf.au) or late February. Cheers, Fraser <<EOF News ---- Local news: * Linux Australia council elections * LA are stewards of linux.conf.au, pyconau, PHP conf au. * Nominations are needed and close on Wednesday 17th December. * http://lists.linux.org.au/pipermail/announce/2014-December/000192.html * OSDClub AGM * AGM was held on November 5th (during OSDC) * Subject to special resolution, OSDClub will wind up and donate assets to LA. * Minutes: https://securityprotected.net/lists/archives/announce.osdc.com.au/2014-Nove… Initiatives: * *Let's Encrypt* initiative * CA initiative and new "ACME" protocol for domain validation and certificate issuance * Partnership of Mozilla, Akamai (CDN), Cisco, EFF, IdenTrust * Launching in 2015; developer preview now. * https://letsencrypt.org/ * EFF announcement: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/11/certificate-authority-encrypt-entire-… * https://github.com/letsencrypt * copyleft.org * Ongoing public project of Software Freedom Conservancy and FSF * Comprehensive tutorial and guide to copyleft and GPL * http://copyleft.org/ * Announcement: http://www.fsf.org/news/software-freedom-conservancy-and-free-software-foun… * Matthew Garrett joins FSF board * http://www.fsf.org/news/matthew-garrett-joins-free-software-foundation-boar… * Librem 15: crowd-funded libre laptop * A Free and Open Source Laptop That Respects Your Essential Freedoms * Crowdfunding campaign * High specs; looks pretty nice * NVIDIA GPU (Nouveau driver) * https://www.crowdsupply.com/purism/librem-laptop * Some non-free BIOS and firmware blobs * See also *Novena*, Bunnie's crowd-funded libre laptop * FSF commences review of High Priority Projects list * Announcement: http://www.fsf.org/news/fsf-commences-review-of-high-priority-free-software… * We need your input! Send your suggestions of projects to hpp-feedback(a)gnu.org * Will publish a substantially revised list and an analysis before LibrePlanet 2015 * Current list: https://www.fsf.org/campaigns/priority-projects/ Events: * SeaGL conference videos * Seattle GNU/Linux conference * Videos at http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHm0HuuKPWBglv-qPC8kkUw * Karen Sandler keynote, *Freedom in My Heart and Everywhere: Lessons from a Cyborg Lawyer* * Karen is co-host of the *Free as in Freedom* podcast, with Bradley Kuhn. http://faif.us/ * Lots of topics: security, programming, ops, civic/humanitarian projects and more. * GIS Day 2014 * Geographic Information Systems (GIS) event held at Queensland University of Technology on 19th November * Some presentations involved free software: * QGIS: https://qgis.org/en/site/ * FOSS4G: https://github.com/matthew-shaw/FOSS4G * OSGeo Foundation: http://www.osgeo.org/ * Program and slides: http://www.gisday.com.au/event/program/ (links to slides are among the speaker bios) * GovHack 2015 announced * Annual open data hackfest weekend; national event involving all levels of govt * New Zealand is on board for 2015! * Competition; prizes! * Save the dates: July 3-5 2015 * More info: http://www.govhack.org/ Releases: * GnuPG 2.1 released * Free OpenPGP implementation for email privacy * Enhancements: * elliptic curve (ECC) support * improved key generation dialog * revocation certs created by default * gpg-agent now used for all private key operations * more efficient key database * Full details: https://gnupg.org/faq/whats-new-in-2.1.html * GNOME 3 now on FreeBSD * GNOME 3.14 has arrived in ports tree and official pkg(8) repos. * https://www.freshports.org/x11/gnome3/ * gNewSense 4 alpha 1 released * Fully free OS based on Debian 7.0 "Wheezy" * Announcement: https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/gnewsense-dev/2014-12/msg00000.html * Trisquel 7 released * Fully free GNU+Linux distro based on Ubuntu * Announcement: https://trisquel.info/en/trisquel-70-lts-belenos * Long Term Support (LTS) release Open Source Developers' Conference recap ---------------------------------------- * OSDC 2014 was held 4th - 7th November at Griffith University, Gold Coast. * Videos of presentations are available at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjmvm9iW5ERNaUcA5FlWbvg and http://mirror.linux.org.au/osdc/osdc2014/ * Five must-watch presentations for free software advocates (as decided by Fraser and Clinton) are, in no particular order: - *Code for America* by Lynn Fine (keynote) - Abstract: http://2014.osdc.com.au/news/third-keynote-speaker-lynn-fine - Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7JCYmbiB7Q - *The State of Full Disk Encryption* by Hugh Davenport - Abstract: http://2014.osdc.com.au/presentation/1083-state-full-disk-encryption - Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4mp_ejER9k - *At The Intersection* by Maia Sauren - Abstract: http://2014.osdc.com.au/presentation/945-intersection - Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfMiCAKpB90 - *Embrace the Impact: Minimising your (insecure) online footprint* by Peter Mosmans - Abstract: http://2014.osdc.com.au/presentation/1250-embrace-impact-minimizing-your-in… - Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5uWHw8coto - *Making Education run like Open Source* by William Billingsley - Abstract: http://2014.osdc.com.au/presentation/829-making-education-run-open-source - Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SULsMJCNAYM EOF

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