Group:LibrePlanet Ontario/Meeting Notes/2017-07

Monday, 24 July 2017, 9:00pm EDT

Date and Time: Monday, 24 July 2017 from 9:00pm to 10:00pm EDT

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

Agenda

• Planning Free Software Advocacy: Group:LibrePlanet_Ontario/Street Team Outreach
• Free/Libre Canadian Tax Preparation Software Project
• ZeroNet [1] Open, free and uncensorable websites, using Bitcoin cryptography and BitTorrent network

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
• KW Linuxfest: 27 January 2017 at Conestoga College, holding a Call for Papers/Presentations until 1 November 2017.
• Creative Commons Global Summit 2018 13-15 April 2018

Minutes

Participants: Bob Jonkman, Colin J. Mills, Logan Streondj (greenmonk), Greg Knittl

Audio Recording: http://podcasts.libreplanet.ca/libreplanetontario-2017-07-24.ogg (Size: 31.4 MB - Duration: 34m49s)

• LibrePlanet Ontario is on IRC at irc://irc.freenode.net/#lp-ca-on
  • Webchat at http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=%23lp-ca-on
• Free/Libre Canadian Tax Preparation Software Project FLCTPSP:
  • Greg has applied again this year for "Developer Status" with CRA, along with another Linux developer.
  • CRA now requires more functions in the "mandatory functions" that must be completed, eg. info for online access to your account
  • Otherwise, not much progress since last meeting
• Municipal bylaws, eg. natural gardens in Toronto
• Street Team Outreach
  • Take advantage of KW Linuxfest?
• KW Linuxfest:
  • Call For Presentations is open, closing 1 November 2017
  • Possibility of remote presentations, contact Colin J. Mills at mailto:colin.j.mills96@gmail.com
• ZeroNet "P2P Webhosting"
• Opensource.com Index of millions of Open Source projects
• Ubuntu 16.04 upgrade from 14.04
  • Dropping Unity in 18.04
  • MATE Desktop, Linux Mint LMDE, Trisquel...
  • Prereleased Updates: Synaptic, Software and Updates | Developer Options
• SLE, the Software Language Engineering conference from ACM (23-24 October 2017, Vancouver)
• SysAdminDay Dinner in Kitchener-Waterloo, 28 July 2017

Text Channel

[4:50 PM] Welcome to Mumble.
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Enjoy your stay!
[9:01 PM] BobJonkman: http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=%23lp-ca-on
[9:01 PM] BobJonkman: Freenode IRCL #lp-ca-on
[9:04 PM] greg: H, can you hear me?i
[9:05 PM] BobJonkman: Cant hear youo
[9:05 PM] greg: just upgraded to 16.04 and ironing out glitches
[9:05 PM] greenmonk: greg try push to talk
[9:05 PM] BobJonkman: Agenda: https://libreplanet.org/wiki/Group:LibrePlanet_Ontario/Meeting_Notes/2017-07
[9:06 PM] greg: where is push to talk
[9:06 PM] greg: yes, I hear you
[9:06 PM] BobJonkman: Greg, can you hear us?
[9:06 PM] greg: yes
[9:08 PM] greenmonk: you have to hold down the keys
[9:10 PM] BobJonkman: Tax project: https://libreplanet.org/wiki/Group:LibrePlanet_Ontario/FLCTPSP
[9:19 PM] BobJonkman: Street Outreach Project https://libreplanet.org/wiki/Group:LibrePlanet_Ontario/Street_Team_Outreach
[9:21 PM] BobJonkman: greenmonk, you're blinking out
[9:24 PM] cjm: https://kwlinuxfest.ca/
[9:28 PM] BobJonkman: https://osm.org/go/ZXnnaVCF-?node=4620754446 Orange circle is the bus stop
[9:29 PM] cjm: colin.j.mills96@gmail.com
[9:34 PM] BobJonkman: greenmonk: It's not working
[9:34 PM] greenmonk: you can't hear me?
[9:34 PM] BobJonkman: That's correct, we can't hear you
[9:37 PM] greg: Does anyone know about https://opensource.com/article/17/7/librariesio-data?
[9:42 PM] BobJonkman: https://opensource.com/alternatives/google-calendar
[9:43 PM] cjm: https://libraries.io/search?q=calender
[9:43 PM] greenmonk: can you hear me any better now?
[9:49 PM] greenmonk: maybe it was the chinese censors
[9:50 PM] greenmonk: they don't like ZeroNet, because if defeats the GFW
[9:53 PM] greenmonk: i use the latest ubuntu version
[9:54 PM] greenmonk: I think it is zesty so 17.04
[9:54 PM] greenmonk: zeronet is a p2p webhosting
[9:55 PM] greenmonk: Well I am waiting to hear if my proposal for Pyash was accepted, will know August 4th for the SLE in vancouver
[9:56 PM] greenmonk: Software Language Engineering conference from ACM
[9:57 PM] greenmonk: k,
[9:57 PM] BobJonkman: https://t.co/LZwuo0darN
[9:58 PM] greenmonk: I made a serach engine for zeronet, there are thousands of chinese users from china on it
[9:58 PM] greenmonk: yep, it's super fast, much faster than freenet, because it based on torrent technology
[9:58 PM] greenmonk: oh well, anyways I guess I'll head out as well. can check out zeronet sometime