Group: LibrePlanet Ontario/Meeting Notes/2017-08

Thursday, 24 August 2017, 9:00pm-10:00pm EDT

Location: Online Mumble chat: mumble://libreplanetbr.org/LibrePlanet%20Ontario?title=LibrePlanet%20SP%20Mumble%20Server

Agenda

• Free/Libre Canadian Tax Preparation Software Project
• ZeroNet: Open, free and uncensorable websites, using Bitcoin cryptography and BitTorrent network (Logan Streondj (greenmonk))
• LibrePlanet.ca website / wiki page
  • Can we get a valid SSL cert?
  • Separate URLs for Ontario and Group:LibrePlanet_Québec
  • Should events that are not primarily Free Software or Free Culture be on our Upcoming Events list?
  • ...events not in Ontario?
• How was The 18th annual DebConf / DebCamp, and Open Day?
• KW Linuxfest: Call for Exhibitors - LibrePlanet Ontario should participate!
  • Is there support from the FSF to host an exhibitor table? Swag?
  • Call For Presentations is open until 1 November 2017.

If there's something else you want to discuss, add it to the this agenda!

Upcoming Events

• Software Freedom Day: Saturday, 16 September 2017
• WordCamp Toronto: 30 September - 1 October 2017, Toronto, Ontario
• SLE, the Software Language Engineering conference from ACM: 24-24 October 2017, Vancouver, B.C.
• FSOSS: 26-27 October 2017 at Seneca College, Toronto, Ontario
• ConFoo: 4-6 December 2017 in Vancouver, B.C.
• KW Linuxfest: 27 January 2017 at Conestoga College, Kitchener, Ontario
• ConFoo: 7-9 March 2018, Montreal, Quebec
• Creative Commons Global Summit 2018: 13-15 April 2018 in Toronto, Ontario

Minutes

Participants: Logan Streondj (greenmonk), Greg Knittl, Stephen Paul Weber

Audio Recording: https://podcasts.libreplanet.ca/libreplanetontario-2017-08-24.ogg (Size: 29.14 MBytes - Duration: 36m10s)

• Logan Streondj's presentation for the ACM was not accepted, but available at http://liberit.ca:43110/1DYjc22BP5VkqNLJgr3nQfoGiNLbGFGffG

Software Freedom Day

• SFD is on Saturday, 16 September 2017.
• LibrePlanet Ontario members are geographically distributed
• (It is unlikely LibrePlanet Ontario will participate in SFD this year)

Free/Libre Canadian Tax Preparation Software Project

• Greg Knittl's requests to the CRA are being ignored
• Greg is seeking legal advice from CIPPIC

Free Software on Phones

• Librem 5 – A Security and Privacy Focused Phone
• Other phones were discussed
• Phone kernels are written so poorly they're not suitable for mainstream distros

Hardware at the Free Software Foundation

• Respects Your Freedom hardware list

ZeroNet

• Logan Streondj (greenmonk) takes us through a demonstration of ZeroNet

Text Channel

[9:04 PM] BobJonkman: Hi! Not available for voice at the moment. Will return to a real computer shortly
[9:05 PM] greenmonk: http://liberit.ca:43110/1DYjc22BP5VkqNLJgr3nQfoGiNLbGFGffG
[9:11 PM] singpolyma: Anyone been following https://puri.sm/shop/librem-5/

Note: This month's text channel is incomplete.