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March 2014

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Summary of last Thursday's meet-up incl. committee election
by Ben Sturmfels 26 Mar '14

26 Mar '14

Hi Everyone, Great to see many of you last Thursday night! We elected a new committee (see below), saw my new laptop running Coreboot, phone running Replicant and discussed some of the recent happenings in the Free Software world like LibrePlanet, MediaGoblin and Mailpile. And I must say Big Mama's Korean food is consistently amazing. Next meet-up is Thursday 17 April at 6pm. See you there! Regards, Ben Election results ---------------- We held our election for the committee. Alex is stepping aside for now due to other commitments, so a big thanks to him for his work as President. The newly elected committee is: President: Adam Bolte Vice President: Andrew Spiers Secretary: Ben Sturmfels Treasurer: Ben Finney Our next election will be March 2015. Meet-up day of the week ----------------------- We also discussed the possibility of varying the meet-up day to allow others to attend. There wasn't any clearly better day though, so no action taken at the moment. We might consider having an occasional event on another day. Ideas welcome.

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Re: [free-software-melb-announce] Free software discussion group this Thursday 20th March
by Adam Bolte 19 Mar '14

19 Mar '14

Greetings all, This coming Thursday (tomorrow night) is the next scheduled meet-up for our Free software discussion group, and it's a very important one. We have a few things lined up which we'd like to discuss. * Ben has a couple of new freedom-respecting gadgets for show and tell. * Items in recent news, such as: - GOG announcing DRM-free games for GNU/Linux (albeit proprietary) - LibrePlanet 2014 - MediaGoblin updates - "back doors" discovered by the Replicant project in Samsung phones. - Mailpile If there are other important/interesting topics you feel should be discussed, feel free to suggest them on the night. However, the main topic of the night is expected to be the committee elections. Hopefully we get a good showing of people interested in voting (although voting isn't compulsory). If anyone is interested, we'll go out to dinner somewhere nearby afterwards. Date: Thursday 20 March Time: 6-9pm Location: VPAC Head Office Training Room Level 1, Building 91, 110 Victoria Street A map is on the website: http://www.freesoftware.asn.au/melb/ See you all there! Cheers, Adam

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