2012-12-18 Meeting

IRC log file is attached.

   AGENDA:

Meeting: purpose, calendar Tasks:

- Development
- Comunity
  - Documentation
  - Support
  - Translation
  - Events
  - Spreading

Funds:

- Needs and usage
- Travel expenses
   MINUTES:

Meetings:

   Schedule: weekly, at #trisquel-dev (with minute-taking bot), 17:00UTC

   Purpose:revamping the project

Development:

   We'll be installing a gitorious instance or similar system, so hackers will be able to join, clone and commit without permission, and then make merge requests

   Short sighted goal: Making the release happen:

   First of all: Find out the required tasks and the corresponding skills necessary to accomplish theses tasks.

   Get volunteer involved.

   Blocker: closing the freedom issues at https://trisquel.info/en/wiki/software-does-not-respect-free-system-distribution-guidelines

   Reduce Quidam's load, for instance on the website manteinance

   Let's try to make the website and the distro simpler

   Website:

   For the website, we can disable or remove unused sections

   Separate Upstream(Ubuntu -1, which is still maintained) issues from Trisquel specific issues...

   Point of improvement: a simpler, more friendly download page

   We could separate the system issues from the main website

   Use the ticket system in a system like gitlabhq

   Distro:

   For the distro, we could lower the priority of secondary editions, or drop(also known as "looking for volounteer") them altogether

Funds:

   We're still not able to hire developers

   The only spending so far has been for the USB keys sent to associate members

   We've got around 11.000€

   One of the ideas for spending money is travelling expenses to attend relevant events

   Of course, online actions are cheaper:

   We can try some fundraising platform which runs on fully-free software

   Starting some independent campaign could also work

   Quidam can ask the FSF to run a campaign with us, maybe after LibrePlanet or trough IRC( like by contacting FSF's executive trough IRC).

   Finding partners is obviously useful, but we have to be as cautious as ever

   We could find use to a PR manager, it's an aspect that we've been weak at in the past

ACTIONS!:

   Come up with a development (code+tickets) environment

   Complete the release!

   remember blockers: We'll clean problematic packages present in the live-cd and probably temporarily remove those which are not

   Clean-up the brainstorming of this meeting, separate it into manageable topics and discuss it at the devel list

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