Group: LibrePlanet Ontario/Meeting Notes/2017-05-24

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)

• 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
• 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

• 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
• 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