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Bitcoin documentary fundraising launch Tue 17 June
by Ben Sturmfels 12 Jun '14

12 Jun '14

Hi again folks, Looks like Tuesday is going to be a busy day! Dale Dickens let me know that her and film maker Chris Mylrae are holding an event to raise money for a new Bitcoin documentary. -------- Bitcoin Doco Crowdfunding Campaign Launch 5pm, Tue 17 June 2014 ThousandPondBend, 361 LittleLonsdale Street Melbourne http://www.thebitcoindoco.com Giving Bitcoin newbies $10 worth of Bitcoin to experiment with on the night. -------- Regards, Ben

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Jon Lawrence (EFA) and Scott Ludlam next Tue 17 June
by Ben Sturmfels 12 Jun '14

12 Jun '14

Hi Folks, We've been advised of an event in Melbourne next Tuesday called Web We Want. Sounds very worthwhile if you can make it. -------- Lindy Stephens will be joining Scott Ludlam, the EFA, and others, to discuss the impact of mass surveillance and what we, as individuals, can do about it at Creating the Web We Want, a free public forum at 11:30am on June 17th, Melbourne Convention Centre. Please feel free to share this link as widely as you like, as we have 1500 seats to fill! http://webwewant.org.au -------- Regards, Ben

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Meet up Thu 15 May: Bitcoin - the intro and demo, meet Les Kitchen
by Ben Sturmfels 14 May '14

14 May '14

Hi Folks, This month Free Software Melbourne presents: Bitcoin - The intro and demo, loads of Gnews and a new segment to get to know more about individuals in the group- this month, Les Kitchen. Please join us afterwards for dinner too. I find the chatter over food is often the highlight of my night. Regards, Ben Free Software Melbourne ----------------------- Thursday 15 May (3rd Thursday of month) 6-9pm (inc. dinner at nearby restaurant) VPAC Head Office Training Room Level 1, Building 91, 110 Victoria Street Map: http://www.freesoftware.asn.au/melb/

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Summary of last Thursday's meet up
by Ben Sturmfels 20 Apr '14

20 Apr '14

Hi Folks, After hearing Damien's talk on Coreboot, I'm definitely inspired to try installing it on the AMD desktop board he mentioned. Notes from Thursday's meet up here: http://freesoftware.org.au/wiki/meetingNotes/20140417 Next month's meet up is 15 May. See you then! Regards, Ben

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Discussion group next Thu 17 Apr: Freeing your BIOS
by Ben Sturmfels 15 Apr '14

15 Apr '14

Hi Free Software folks, This month: Damien Zammit talking about freeing your BIOS, lots of Free Software news as always, plus a tasty dinner afterwards. See you next Thursday! Regards, Ben Free Software Melbourne ----------------------- Thursday 17 April 6-9pm (inc. dinner at nearby restaurant) VPAC Head Office Training Room Level 1, Building 91, 110 Victoria Street Map: http://www.freesoftware.asn.au/melb/ Damien Zammit: Freeing your BIOS -------------------------------- Following recent disclosure of widespread US government surveillance, it's becoming clear that Free Software is critical to building devices that maintain our that act in our interests, rather than someone else's. Although we don't yet have much choice but to trust the security of our hardware[1], it is possible to have Free Software right down to the BIOS level. Damien has been interested in this area some time and has recently succeeded in installing a free BIOS in his laptop. He'll be telling us about his work in this area. [1] Matthew Garret's LCA 2014 keynote gave a risk analysis of trusting our hardware: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixMStnFzgRM The Gnews --------- Blender's project Gooseberry http://cloud.blender.org/gooseberry/ Novena free hardware laptop: http://www.crowdsupply.com/kosagi/novena-open-laptop Update on TPP: https://action.sumofus.org/a/trade-sustainers/4/4/ Remix culture: http://www.ted.com/talks/kirby_ferguson_embrace_the_remix

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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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Re: [free-software-melb-announce] [free-software-melb] FSM meeting 2014-02-18: dinner at Big Mama (Korean restaurant)
by Alex Fraser 18 Feb '14

18 Feb '14

On 18 Feb 2014 22:29, "Andrew Spiers" <andrew(a)andrewspiers.net> wrote: > > I apologise, I can't make Thursday 2014-02-20. > Next month! Oh yeah, the 18th is today! Thanks Andrew :) I even read that off the clock as I wrote the message. Whoops.

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FSM meeting 2014-02-18: dinner at Big Mama (Korean restaurant)
by Alex Fraser 18 Feb '14

18 Feb '14

Happy new year*, free software Melbournians! It's time for another meeting! I know we talked about having a BBQ, but I must admit that the required work to organise it has neglected. So! let's meet for a *tasty dinner* at Big Ma-Ma [1]. It will be just like old times. See you there at 6pm this Thursday. If you're coming, please let me know (just to my email) so I can tell the restaurant how many people are coming. If you decide to come at the last minute, that's cool; just show up. Next month we'll have a regular meeting again. We'll have an election for the next committee, so please consider nominating for a position. If you know you don't want to be on the committee, we also need someone to volunteer to be the returning officer (the person who counts the votes). Let me know if you're interested. See you on Thursday, Alex * Or Happy Chinese GNU year, if you prefer. [1] http://www.urbanspoon.com/r/71/1524991/restaurant/CBD/Big-Mama-Melbourne

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No meeting this month
by Alex Fraser 15 Jan '14

15 Jan '14

Hi all, I hope you're enjoying the hot weather! This is just a reminder that there no FSM meeting this month - but we are invited to the LUV BBQ, as mentioned by Bianca! Or next meeting will be in February, and will probably take the form of a BBQ too. Cheers, Alex

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