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
<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-Novem...
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-w...
* 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-found...
* Matthew Garrett joins FSF board
* http://www.fsf.org/news/matthew-garrett-joins-free-software-foundation-board...
* 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@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
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* 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-ins...
- 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
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