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?