Group: LibrePlanet Ontario/Meeting Notes/2017-05-24
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Contents
Wednesday, 24 May 2017, 9:00pm EDT
Location: Mumble
Agenda
- Planning Free Software Advocacy: Group:LibrePlanet_Ontario/Street Team Outreach
- Free/Libre Canadian Tax Preparation Software Project
- Speakable programming language https://gitlab.com/liberit/pyac
If there's something else you want to discuss, add it to the this agenda!
Upcoming Events
- The 18th annual DebConf will take place in Montreal, Canada from August 6 to August 12, 2017. It will be preceded by DebCamp, July 31st to August 4th, and Open Day, August 5th.
- Software Freedom Day: Saturday, 16 September 2017
Minutes
- Participants: Bob Jonkman, Sergio Durigan Jr., Logan Streondj (greenmonk), Jean-Paul Sauvé, Greg Knittl, dzho, Blaise Alleyne
- Audio Recording: http://podcasts.libreplanet.ca/libreplanetontario-2017-05-24.ogg (Size: 50.8 MB - Duration: 54m07s) Subscribe to the Podcast
- IWOCL, the International Workshop on OpenCL, 15-16 May 2017 in Toronto
- Introductions
- Review of the Free/Libre Canadian Tax Pr eparation Software Project
- Taxpayer Bill Of Rights http://www.cra-arc.gc.ca/E/pub/tg/rc17/rc17-12-16e.pdf
- "10. You have the right to have the costs of compliance taken into account when administering tax legislation."
- "11. You have the right to expect us to be accountable."
- Send a complaint to the CRA?
- Privacy concerns with e-filing -- sending data through the US?
- Prototype XSLT scripts developed by Greg to be posted in public repository
- Alexander Oliva's success with Brazilian tax software
- Taxpayer Bill Of Rights http://www.cra-arc.gc.ca/E/pub/tg/rc17/rc17-12-16e.pdf
- PYAC, the speakable programming language
- https://gitlab.com/liberit/pyac
- Example from README.md:
-
- _you text read\
- sa htet tyac\
- \
- \
- text _you language teaching\
- htet sa pyac
- YouTube: Using Python to Code by Voice
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Street Team Outreach
- In-person meetings to expand this project?
- Poll to choose a meeting date at https://framadate.org/oVNOM99FIddtvyPy
- Also plan the meeting on the LibrePlanet Ontario mailing list
- In-person meetings to expand this project?
- World's largest rubber duck
Text Channel
[6:34 PM] Welcome to Mumble. [6:35 PM] Connecting to server libreplanetbr.org. [6:35 PM] Connected. [6:35 PM] Welcome message: Welcome to this server running Murmur. Enjoy your stay! [8:59 PM] Recording started [9:03 PM] BobJonkman: Hi Greg! [9:03 PM] JP.Sauve: greg, we can hear you [9:03 PM] BobJonkman: We can hear you [9:03 PM] JP.Sauve: I can barely hear anything from greg [9:04 PM] BobJonkman: Greg, can you hear us? [9:05 PM] greenmonk: greg, it's your turn to introduce yourself. [9:22 PM] BobJonkman: Agenda: https://libreplanet.org/wiki/Group:LibrePlanet_Ontario/Meeting_Notes/2017-05-24 [9:25 PM] gknittl@sympatico.ca: taxpayer bill of rights http://www.cra-arc.gc.ca/E/pub/tg/rc17/rc17-12-16e.pdf [9:28 PM] dzho: http://www.fsf.org/news/securedrop-and-alexandre-oliva-are-2016-free-software-awards-winners [9:29 PM] dzho: oliva reversed brazil tax software [9:29 PM] dzho: just another data point [9:29 PM] dzho: /me is in the US so hi! [9:38 PM] BobJonkman: https://gitlab.com/liberit/pyac [9:42 PM] BobJonkman: _you text read\ sa htet tyac\ \ \ text _you language teaching\ htet sa pyac [9:50 PM] dzho: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SkdfdXWYaI [9:51 PM] BobJonkman: YouTube: Using Python to Code by Voice [9:55 PM] balleyne: https://libreplanet.org/wiki/Group:LibrePlanet_Ontario/Street_Team_Outreach [10:02 PM] balleyne: https://lists.libreplanet.org/mailman/listinfo/libreplanet-ca-on [10:06 PM] greenmonk: http://london.ctvnews.ca/ontario-150-tour-coming-to-owen-sound-features-world-s-largest-rubber-duck-1.3321814 [10:07 PM] dzho: bye [10:07 PM] Recording stopped