Hi all, Our meeting on Thursday was small, but productive. These are the minutes: - Anti-piracy report Cited by government, and obtained through the Freedom of Information Act by the Pirate Party. It claims that the increase in internet traffic is exactly correlated with job loss (which sectors?) - Copyright reform The issue for us is that this will likely be driven by ACTA and the TPP, and the above piracy report. This affects us because it may result in stronger DRM and anti-circumvention laws, and other restrictions on the use of hardware. - TPP Among other things, the TPP demands a copyright term of 95 years after the date of publication. Some confusion here: currently, does the copyright term start at the death of the author? - Patent abolition ambassadors We welcome Bill Appelbe, CEO of VPAC as a public voice against patents. We discussed who else we could approach. - Customer agreements We discussed what sorts of things should go in an agreement with a client to allow the developer to contribute code upstream in FOSS projects. Alex couldn't find any of these online. MFSIG could collaborate to create such an agreement, and pool our resources to have it looked at by a lawyer. Then we could post it on the Web for anyone to use. Action items: - Alex to write to Kim Weatherall to offer the help of MFSIG in campagning against certain aspects of the TPP: - Copyright term. - Anti-circumvention of copy protection / "rights management". - Patent "ever greening". - Chris to contact Con Zymaris about Open Source Victoria (are they still active?)