WG/OBIT/Minutes/120226

Wiki Spam

 * Steve has been working on taking care of the spam.
 * Kizmut made some templates for spam pages.
 * Brandon disabled the MediaWiki Write API but that hasn't done anything.

Community Gathering

 * It's been moved up a week.
 * We had previously decided that we should start planning that today.
 * Ideas:
 * A Showcase which clarifies the difference between the free software movement and "shareware" or "free as in beer".
 * Dana can put together a presentation on LibreOffice / Free Software & hand out USB copies.
 * "Sometimes it's better software but that's not the point."
 * Perhaps start the conversation with an analogy to Bank of America
 * We'll have to arrange food.
 * Brandon will do some research on food.
 * Middle East gives those platters for 1/5 off.
 * Should we also use this time for training?
 * Can we invite the FSF to come? Possibly speak?
 * Dana can talk to some friends to the FSF
 * Perhaps a music performance created using free software?
 * Can we do a security culture demonstration?
 * Live packsniffing / wireshark
 * Third party cookies, etc.
 * Steve can work on the live demo.
 * We can bring USB sticks with free software (LibreOffice) with Mac & Linux versions.


 * Equipment:
 * Projector / Screen
 * Dana can bring these but he doesn't have a car to move them.
 * Maybe the church has a screen?
 * Two laptops
 * Internet
 * Is there internet at St. Paul's?
 * If there's not any there, we need to bring some.
 * Would Media be willing to let us use a hotspot for the evening?
 * Brandon will look into this.
 * Food

Open House Description

 * We are the technology activists who provide the IT backbone of Occupy Boston.

Research Wiki

 * Should Ravi's project have to go before GA for approval, because it's not OB specific.
 * Because it shouldn't impact OB services, it probably doesn't have to go before GA. Ravi should announce this at GA though.

Occupy MBTA

 * They've started a Wordpress account to blog. Should we be helping them with this?
 * Should we install a multi-site instance of wordpress?
 * Let's incorporate those features into Groups v2.

Groups v2

 * phpbb & vanilla integration into drupal don't seem to be as miraculous as we'd hoped.
 * Perhaps we should look into drupal forums again.
 * Let's examine the Advanced Forums module in drupal

Wireless Access Points

 * We got a donation of 5 WAPs.

Ticket #52 Meeting

 * Dana can't do anything this week, but next week is OK.
 * Sunday before OBIT?
 * Wednesday during OBIT?