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Re: [free-software-melb] [free-software-melb-announce] Thu 2015-11-19, 18:00
by Brian May 16 Nov '15

16 Nov '15

Retry using my old email address. Ben Finney <ben+free-software(a)benfinney.id.au> writes: > I won't be able to attend, I'm sorry to say. Someone else with an > access card (Brian May?) will need to let the group into the building > and from there into the room. Don't look at me... Haven't had a working access card since June. -- Brian May <brian(a)microcomaustralia.com.au>

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Re: [free-software-melb] Free-software-melb Digest, Vol 60, Issue 1
by Andri Effendi 09 Nov '15

09 Nov '15

Hi, I don't know if this message will get through. This should about cover it. Title: Aaron Swartz Day 2015 Evening Celebration Info: Aaron Swartz Day Celebration of hackers and whistleblowers that make the world a better place. 7:30 pm - Scenes From "From DeadDrop to SecureDrop" and a "Friends of Aaron" movie. 8:00 pm Speakers: 1. Giovanni Damiola (Open Library Project) 2. Garrett Robinson (Lead Programmer, SecureDrop) 3. Alison Macrina (Founder and Director, Library Freedom Project) 4. Brewster Kahle (Digital Librarian, Internet Archive) 5. Cindy Cohn (Executive Director, Electronic Frontier Foundation) 6. Roger Dingledine (Interim Executive Director, Tor Project) 7. Micah Lee (Co-founder, Board Member, and Technologist at “The Intercept”) 8. Jacob Appelbaum (Security Expert seen in Citizen Four, Wikileaks volunteer) (Appearing remotely via Jitsi over Tor) 9. John Perry Barlow (EFF and Freedom of the Press Foundation co-founder) 10. Special Statement by Chelsea Manning in Support of the Third Annual Aaron Swartz Day and International Hackathon When: Streamed live on 7 Nov 2015 I have uploaded it to GoblinRefuge: https://goblinrefuge.com/mediagoblin/u/iapple123/m/aaron-swartz-day-2015-ev… Hope this covers what you wanted :) Kind Regards, Andri Effendi free-software-melb-request(a)lists.softwarefreedom.com.au: > Send Free-software-melb mailing list submissions to > free-software-melb(a)lists.softwarefreedom.com.au > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://lists.softwarefreedom.com.au/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/free-software-… > > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > free-software-melb-request(a)lists.softwarefreedom.com.au > > You can reach the person managing the list at > free-software-melb-owner(a)lists.softwarefreedom.com.au > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Free-software-melb digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Must Watch with Free Software Off Course :) From Andri > (Andri Effendi) > 2. Re: Must Watch with Free Software Off Course :) From Andri > (Ben Finney) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Mon, 9 Nov 2015 02:02:55 +0000 > From: Andri Effendi <fusionman133(a)gmx.de> > To: libreplanet-sydney(a)lists.softwarefreedom.com.au, > free-software-melb(a)lists.softwarefreedom.com.au > Subject: [free-software-melb] Must Watch with Free Software Off Course > :) From Andri > Message-ID: <563FFECF.1090702(a)gmx.de> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 > > Hi Everyone, > This is a must watch video that everyone should watch: > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qle9UvJGdYg > > There are 10 Speakers: > 1. Giovanni Damiola (Open Library Project) > 2. Garrett Robinson (Lead Programmer, SecureDrop) > 3. Alison Macrina (Founder and Director, Library Freedom Project) > 4. Brewster Kahle (Digital Librarian, Internet Archive) > 5. Cindy Cohn (Executive Director, Electronic Frontier Foundation) > 6. Roger Dingledine (Interim Executive Director, Tor Project) > 7. Micah Lee (Co-founder, Board Member, and Technologist at “The Intercept”) > 8. Jacob Appelbaum (Security Expert seen in Citizen Four, Wikileaks > volunteer) (Appearing remotely via Jitsi over Tor) > 9. John Perry Barlow (EFF and Freedom of the Press Foundation co-founder) > 10. Special Statement by Chelsea Manning in Support of the Third Annual > Aaron Swartz Day and International Hackathon > > If you use VLC Media Player, you will not be required to run any > proprietary software to watch this video. > > Or you can download with > $ youtube-dl https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qle9UvJGdYg > > Hope everyone watches this. It is really inspiring and I hope this moves > people. > > Kind Regards, > Kind Regards, -- Andri Effendi <fusionman133(a)gmx.de> GPG fingerprint: 8438 138D ECDA 05E0 591F F2B4 4721 0F03 AC24 DF73 Confidentiality cannot be guaranteed on emails sent or received unencrypted.

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Must Watch with Free Software Off Course :) From Andri
by Andri Effendi 09 Nov '15

09 Nov '15

Hi Everyone, This is a must watch video that everyone should watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qle9UvJGdYg There are 10 Speakers: 1. Giovanni Damiola (Open Library Project) 2. Garrett Robinson (Lead Programmer, SecureDrop) 3. Alison Macrina (Founder and Director, Library Freedom Project) 4. Brewster Kahle (Digital Librarian, Internet Archive) 5. Cindy Cohn (Executive Director, Electronic Frontier Foundation) 6. Roger Dingledine (Interim Executive Director, Tor Project) 7. Micah Lee (Co-founder, Board Member, and Technologist at “The Intercept”) 8. Jacob Appelbaum (Security Expert seen in Citizen Four, Wikileaks volunteer) (Appearing remotely via Jitsi over Tor) 9. John Perry Barlow (EFF and Freedom of the Press Foundation co-founder) 10. Special Statement by Chelsea Manning in Support of the Third Annual Aaron Swartz Day and International Hackathon If you use VLC Media Player, you will not be required to run any proprietary software to watch this video. Or you can download with $ youtube-dl https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qle9UvJGdYg Hope everyone watches this. It is really inspiring and I hope this moves people. Kind Regards, -- Andri Effendi <fusionman133(a)gmx.de> GPG fingerprint: 8438 138D ECDA 05E0 591F F2B4 4721 0F03 AC24 DF73 Confidentiality cannot be guaranteed on emails sent or received unencrypted.

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October Gnews
by Ben M 18 Oct '15

18 Oct '15

Hi all, I've just posted a link to this months Gnews in our past meetup page: http://freesoftware.org.au/melbourne/past-meet-ups/ ~~Ben M.

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'There Is No Human Right To Patent Protection' -- UN Special Rapporteur
by Andrew Pam 16 Oct '15

16 Oct '15

"There is no human right to patent protection. The right to protection of moral and material interests cannot be used to defend patent laws that inadequately respect the right to participate in cultural life, to enjoy the benefits of scientific progress and its applications, to scientific freedoms and the right to food and health and the rights of indigenous peoples and local communities." <https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20151013/09390532525/there-is-no-human-ri…> Looks like an interesting report. Cheers, Andrew

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EFA: Final Leaked TPP Text is All That We Feared
by Ben Finney 16 Oct '15

16 Oct '15

Howdy all, As discussed at this month's FSM meeting, the Trans-Pacific Partnership has been signed by many countries including Australia — all prior to any of those countries's citizens get to discuss what's in the agreement. The Electronic Frontiers Foundation analysed the final leaked text of the TPP, in particular its section on so-called “intellectual property”. Electronic Frontiers Australia has the story: Today [2015-10-09]'s release by Wikileaks of what is believed to be the current and essentially final version of the intellectual property (IP) chapter of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) confirms our worst fears about the agreement, and dashes the few hopes that we held out that its most onerous provisions wouldn't survive to the end of the negotiations. <URL:https://www.efa.org.au/2015/10/12/final-leaked-tpp-text/> We still can stop this coming into effect in Australia. The agreement is international, but it only touches the ground when signatory countries convince their governments to enact laws. Our federal government needs to hear from all of us, and be convinced of the harms this awful deal with have for all citizens. If we don't make our voices loud, then the US Trade Representative, and the transnational corporations it represents, will be dominating our government's view on this. Stay tuned to the EFA as they rally for Australian citizens to stand against the undemocratic corruption of our freedoms. -- \ “A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular.” | `\ —Adlai Ewing Stevenson | _o__) | Ben Finney

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Global Internet Experts Reveal Plan for More Secure, Reliable Wi-Fi Routers - and Internet
by Andrew Pam 15 Oct '15

15 Oct '15

"WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--In a letter submitted to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), Dave Täht, co-founder of the Bufferbloat Project, and Dr. Vinton Cerf, co-inventor of the Internet, along with more than 260 other global network and cybersecurity experts, responded to the newly proposed FCC rules laid out in ET Docket No. 15-170 for RF Devices such as Wi-Fi routers by unveiling a new approach to improve the security of these devices and ensure a faster, better, and more secure Internet." Starting with: 1. Any vendor of software-defined radio (SDR), wireless, or Wi-Fi radio must make public the full and maintained source code for the device driver and radio firmware in order to maintain FCC compliance. The source code should be in a buildable, change-controlled source code repository on the Internet, available for review and improvement by all. http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20151014005564/en#.Vh9bY1PsS6Z Important recommendations that I fully endorse. Regards, Andrew

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The inaugural free software Sydney conference is here to download, Andri Effendi - Free Software Australia
by Andri Effendi 08 Oct '15

08 Oct '15

Hello Sydney and Melbourne folks, I am excited to announce after roughly a month of along waiting the free software Sydney inaugural meet online conference Recording is now available to download via bit torrent. Please download and I would appreciate if you are able to, to continue seeding this torrent. Here is the magnetic link: magnet:?xt=urn:btih:X7ERDRA34QMVCPI4VS7ZPM3YBB6LI2SQ&dn=Free%20software%20Sydney%20inaugural%20meet.m4v&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.coppersurfer.tk%3A6969&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Fexodus.desync.com%3A6969&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.openbittorrent.com%3A80&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.publicbt.com%3A80&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Fopen.demonii.com%3A1337 My apologies about the long delay. There was some complications with file storage during editing process and I had to purchase a portable hard drive to store the project on as a results of an issue with the importing process which made the video size excessively huge whilst editing. The video is here now please share :) This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. as there are many personal opinions that are expressed. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/ Please contact me or Olivier through the mailing list if you need further information regarding the licensing. Kind Regards, -- Andri Effendi <fusionman133(a)gmx.de> GPG fingerprint: 8438 138D ECDA 05E0 591F F2B4 4721 0F03 AC24 DF73 Confidentiality cannot be guaranteed on emails sent or received unencrypted.

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Making a contribution: The Aftermath
by Scott Junner 30 Aug '15

30 Aug '15

I'd like to share my experience of the Free Software Melbourne, Contributing to Free Software workshop, and more importantly what has happened since then. Because, it's kinda cool. It's not what I expected. I consider myself a beginner programmer. Most of the time I have no idea what I am doing and no idea what the documentation is trying to convey. Lost is perhaps my most common emotion. But, I wanted very much to attend a workshop that showed me ways that a total n00b like me could make a meaningful contribution to some sort of software project. It was this desire, in fact, that led to me being nominated as a member of the committee of Free Software Melbourne. I wanted to be a part of that workshop so much that I was prepared to be one of the people to make it happen. And so some jerk who didn't want to take responsibility for anything nominated me for a position on the committee at the groups AGM (Nice). Getting close to the event I started to seriously doubt that I would be able to do anything meaningful at the workshop. I'd begun to lose faith in my ability to write any code of value. I was scared and looking for a way that I could just support everyone else to hide my own inadequacies. You know, make everyone cups of tea and all that shit so I could avoid facing what a total loser I am. But, after the day started and I'd managed to pull through a minor event organisational panic (called "We have nothing for morning tea") I sat down at a desk and, teaming up with another participant, looked for a project to contribute to and a thing to do. I'd no idea that openhatch.org was a thing I could use to do that. And especially no idea that I could filter projects and issues to find something that would suit my skills and skill level. Just learning it was a thing was enough. A major revelation and perhaps, in hindsight, the most valuable thing I got out of the whole event. Eventually Veronica and I settled upon a small task we figured we could handle for the Oppia <https://www.oppia.org/> project and got busy downloading source code, installing and making some changes. Along the way we encountered a problem which required an answer from the project devs and so I shot off a message to them expecting to hear from them in a couple of days or something. It turned out they were online and watching messages and we got almost an immediate response to our question. Problem solved. Keep going. We didn't quite get the job done by the end of the day. There were still some problems to be solved and tests to be run. But it wasn't much. Now here's where the story takes a turn. Or changes gear, or something. The code I wrote turned out to be waaaaay off the mark. It wasn't working, files were in the wrong directory, file addressing was a mess. And to top it off I'd changed quadruple the lines of code I'd needed to by adding html tags to every line when all I need to do was open and close them before and after an if statement. DUH! The cool thing was I had the balls to tell the project devs what I was thinking and where I was having problems. And they were cool enough to answer me and help out. Not something I expected. The end result was something that worked. And looked great. But wait! There's more. Submitting code and *having it merged* into the project was awesome. It felt like being a Débutante at the ball. But the best part of the whole experience wasn't that. It was when the project devs added me as a member of their organisation on github, and listed me as a contributor. So I feel like the real result wasn't better code or a nicer design. The real result was that by going to a little workshop in North Melbourne for a day, I moved from being just some guy trying to learn how to program, to someone with actual programming credits to his name on a real live project. I didn't expect that. I actually did something worth while. I kinda feel like a different person. Well, that's what I wanted to share. Remain Awesome Scott.

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From Andri Effendi - Free Software Australia (Sydney)
by Andri Effendi 28 Aug '15

28 Aug '15

Hello Free Software Australia, My Name is Andri Effendi. In case we weren't introduced in Melbourne at the "workshop: Contribute to free software and open source" ... I am a Free Software activist, running the recently created Sydney based Free Software mailing list. I am aiming to have a web conference using Jitsi on September 10th 2015. You will need a WebCam, Microphone, Speakers (or headphones) and a fast internet connection capable of streaming a live conference. The web conference will be a virtual gathering... The exact time of the even hasn't been decided yet, however I am currently contemplating holding it for 3 and a half hours at 7:00PM - 10:30PM. (with the last 30 minutes available for questions and answers) Still to be organized... Although Jitsi is Free Software, currently it is only compatible with Chrome, Chromium, Opera and Firefox Nightly, so I thought I should mention that if you would like to join in you should make sure you have one of the mentioned browsers. I would like to invite both Free Software folks in both Melbourne and Sydney to join along. I would like to know what people think?? Will anyone not be able to make it online that day? I am asking for Victorian's and New South Welshmen to help me out here, in any way you can. I am really eager to build up the Free Software movement in the Country so we can enshrine the solid foundations of The Free Software Movement in Australian culture. If you would like to email me Personally see my email address down below. Kind Regards, Andri Effendi Free Software Australia (Sydney) Email me: fusionman133(a)gmx.de GPG Key: 8438 138D ECDA 05E0 591F F2B4 4721 0F03 AC24 DF73 (For Security Reasons I think I should let you know that my GPG Key may have been altered in transit, so If you wish to exchange keys, it's best to do this in person)

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