News

2023

• FSA Meetup Aug 17th: General Free Software Discussion
• FSA July Meetup - Free Software Discussion Group
• Free Software Discussion Group
• Informal Free Software Discussion
• FSA April 20: Website Update, Software Freedom Day 2023 Brainstorming, and FLOSS in Education
• FOSDEM & Everything Open 2023 Conference Reviews
• FOSDEM 2023 Review and Discussion
• AGM and pitch night for "Everything Open" conference submissions

2022

• Drupal 10 Release Party with Salsa Digital (Online / In Person in Melbourne)
• Aaron Swartz Day and Internet Governance
• Aaron Swartz Day and Internet Governance
• Games Night - Veloren
• Software Freedom Day - Saturday 17th of September 2022
• More Planning for Software Freedom Day
• Planning for Software Freedom Day
• Mobilizon - Event Managment software that respects your freedom
• Brainstorming how Free Software Australia will broaden FLOSS adoption
• PeerTube - Peer-to-peer video sharing for the people
• Federation and the Fediverse
• 30 years of Linux under GPL (Linux30 project launch)
• FSM Jan 20th - AGM and Committee Elections + planning FSA

2021

• Favorite Free Software for 2021
• SFD Video Previews and Free Software Video Night
• Software Freedom Day
• Licence controversies: Elastic Search and Audacity
• User Freedom on the Web
• Everyday Hardware for Free Software: Mobile Phones, Laptops, and more
• FSM Wiki Working Bee
• Free Software and Privacy Discussion Night
• Free Software and Privacy Discussion Night
• Campaign and activities planning for 2021
• Discussion on Right to Repair and preparation of submission material

2020

• Favourite Free Software 2020
• Apple's Sunset on Freedom
• Installation and Walkthrough of Pop!_OS
• A show and tell about NextCloud
• Software Freedom Day - 19th of September 2020
• FLOSS and The Commons
• Software Freedom Day 2020 - Call for Speakers
• Free and Open Source Software Show and Tell
• FSM Jun 18 - Running a small businesson Free Software — The Sandstorm Platform
• FSM Meeting, Thursday 21st May 2020, Staying connected with Free Software - Jami and Signal
• Free Software Melbourne Meeting, Thursday 16th April 2020: Staying connected with Free Software
• Free Software Melbourne meeting, 19 March 2020: How to unfriend Facebook
• Inclusion Policy update proposal and FSM for 2020
• FSM Jan 16th - Discussion on inclusion policies & FSM campaigns for 2020

2019

• Update on browser standards
• December Meetup - 6:30pm Friday 13th December 2019
• Free Software Melbourne October Wrap-up
• FSM October 17th - The Future of Free Software Culture
• Software Freedom Day - 21st of September 2019
• Submission to the Review of the Telecommunications and Other Legislation Amendment (Assistance and Access) Act 2018
• FSM August 15th 2019 - Favorite Free Software
• FSM June 20th - Open Source Games Night - MineTest
• Free Software Melbourne meeting, Thursday, 18 April, Assistance and Access Act + Gnews
• DRM in Action
• Submission to AssistanceAndAccess2018
• Melbourne meetup - 21st February 2019 - All about Mastodon
• Keeping up with the giants
• When the Cloud bites
• Pure OS Store

2018

• On Microsoft Edge and the Chromium Engine
• Melbourne December Dinner - 21st December 2018
• Show and Tell / Committee Voting
• October 18th 2018 - Spring Libre Games Night
• Sept 15th - Software Freedom Day 2018!
• Melbourne Meetup - Free Software/Open Source licences and why do they matter
• FSM May 19 - Contribute to Trove
• Free as in Freedom
• Games Night 🎮
• Melbourne - May 2018 Meetup - Contribute to Wikipedia
• The Flux Party and the Gnews
• March Meetup - Libre Games Night!
• Oculus does not serve you
• Rendering PDFs into Text/HTML with Free Software
• Amazon Echo’s to big brother
• An Intro to F-Droid - Show and Tell
• On Meltdown and Spectre exploits
• Amazon Fire TV has Youtube blocked by Google

2017

• Non-free Android applications always listening
• FSM at Meetup Mixup Melbourne
• Free Software Show and Tell
• FSM Oct 19th - An intro to D# and the Gnews
• FSM Sept 16th - Software Freedom Day 2017!
• FSM Aug 17th - Games Night 🎮
• FSM Jul 20th - What is Free Software and Why is it Important
• FSM Working Group July 6th - Preparing a "Licencing GovHack Projects" Talk
• Open Letter to AMD
• FSM Jun 15th - AMD, Installfests and the Gnews on privacy
• FSM Working Group - The AMD Submission
• FSM May 18th - FSM Committee Functions and Behind the Gnews
• FSM April 20th - FSM Elections, AMD Open Hardware submission and the Gnews
• FSM March 16th - Snitch Hunt Reloaded and The Projects of Code for Victoria 1
• FSM Working Group ... lets try to do it Riot this time
• 16th Feb Meeting - Rosie Williams and FSM playtest SnitchHunt
• FSM casual dinner with Deb Nicholson

2016

• Free Software December Dinner
• 2016 - FOSS Show and Tell wrapup
• FSM 17th Nov - Free Software Show and Tell night
• 20th Oct Meeting - Michael Verrenkamp on the Paradoxes of Free Software
• Software Freedom Day 2016
• FSM 18/08/16: Democracy the open source way and more Gnews than you can statisticaly sample
• Free Software Melbourne - Meetup 21th July 2016 - Scientific Hooliganism
• Free Software Melbourne - Meetup 16th June 2016 - DRM and you
• Show and Tell summary
• RHoK, Privacy and Free Software, 19th May
• Show-and-tell plus committee elections, Thu 21 April
• Learn Covert Communications and Email Self Defence
• Surprise dinner with Molly de Blanc, this Thu 11 Feb
• Ben Sturmfels on Preventing Cat-astrophes with GNU MediaGoblin

2015

• December dinner, Thu 17 Dec, 7pm
• Tatiana Lenz on exploring free software influences
• Announcement - Dr Katherine Phelps on activism and free software in creative media
• Inaugural Sydney meetup on 2015-09-10
• Stoking the Free Software Fire
• Ben Minerds on Javascript frameworks, Ben Sturmfels on free software accounting
• Scott Junner on social networks, a herd of Gnews and Brian May, Melbourne 18 June
• 21st of May meeting recap
• Alisha Ryans-Taylor on GovHack plus Russell Coker's free software story, Melbourne 21 May
• Adam and Andrew make Free Software Melbourne awesome
• Peter Serwylo core developer of F-Droid + much Gnews, Melbourne 16 April
• William Grant on working in free software + plenty of Gnews, Melbourne 19 March
• GNews for Thursday 2015-02-19
• iPads in schools plus loads of Gnews, Melbourne 19 Feb
• Melbourne casual dinner with Deb Nicholson 22 Jan

2014

• Melbourne casual dinner 18 December 6pm