• Group Assembled, 8:30ish at Gaia House-Interfaith Center
  Present: Wayne, Kara, Matt, Peter
   
• Call to Order
   
• Approval of Agenda

  No one disputed the agenda.

• News/Announcements

• Individual Progress Reports
• Wayne is setting up virtual machines on hid computer for use in teach-ins.

• Discussion

1. Group discussed issues with machine setup for demonstrating software during future teach-ins.  Lack of appropriate computers a problem.
2. Peter mentioned that he may be able to offer a computer for demo.
3. Individual machine setups vs. dual booting vs. virtualisation was discussed.

• return to News/Annonuncements

  The group returned to discussing news and announcements.

• New or updated news items
• SOPA update — House is on break for the holidays, will bring the bill up in the coming weeks.
• PIPA, OPEN also discussed.

• return to Discussion

  The group returned to general discussion.

1. Wayne suggested doing a ‘Media’ teach-in.  How to interpret and react to legislation.
• Suggested concepts included darknet, freenet, tor, SOPA circumvention
2. Organizing teach-ins
• Need to figure out possible dates and order
• Free Software teach-in considered by group as logical first event
• Dates proposed and scheduled for teach-ins
1. Free Software teach-in – January 21st, 4:30pm at Independent Media Center– first Saturday after classes resume
2. Intro to Linux teach-in – January 28th, 4:30pm at Independent Media Center
• Peter mentioned the Recreation Committee and that a teach-in would need to be schedule around their (potentially) already scheduled activities.
• Kara expressed concern over the magnitude of happenings that day and the need for scheduling times that are most convenient for people participating in other events.
3. Alternatives to Google Docs considered
• Occupy Pad
• Anonpad (doesn’t seem to be resolving as of 3:20pmCST, 2011-01-08)
• Piratepad
• MediaWiki
• a Git based system
4. Internet at IMC
• still pending
• little or no response from WDBX about Internet sharing
• possible issues resulting from lack of Internet brought up in regards to teach-ins with demonstrations
• Matt suggesting asking the City govt., a business, or Main Street organization to help
5. Group Adjourn
6. Individual and Small Group Projects

   No small group work this week.

• discussed the need for OC Media/Tech Resource Management to help establish continuity of group discourse when others are ready to help take over active leadership/facilitator roles in the group. to this end, established OC Media/Tech Committee Resource Management document
• discussed organization of teach-ins, established OC Media/Tech Committee Teach-In Schedule to supplement existing OC Media/Tech Committee Teach-In Organization document
• Matt Coleman set up an IRC channel on freenode:
  server: asimov.freenode.net
  port: 6667
  channel: #oc-tech-and-media
• discussed the need to integrate our activities into the occupycarbondale.org website:
  Peter Sussman says that we are already on the site but it does not show up publicly for some reason. Whatever the case, we definitely need to start posting our meeting  dates and teach in schedule on the calendar.

• a specific, on-going effort someone (?) is engaged in to post current news stories on a blog; note-to-self: find out more about this

Ideas:

• Need to get an IRC channel going for remote participation in meetings
• Need to organize, set dates, and advertise for the Teach-Ins. Suggested “class” outline.

• Break off from Media Committee?
• No. The “media” aspects of the media and tech committee could be taken care of within the first half hour with the balance of the time spent working on tech committee matters.
• Also, if the “media” folks do not wish to join, they can as a committee set their own time and the technical side can keep regular “working group” hours that do not require the permission of the rest of the group.
• Discuss LibrePlanet Team
• freeculture.org : chapter-based student organization group for free software advocacy (Action Item: Pete, talk to ACM and other computer science students and professors to gauge interest, collect signatures for RSO petition)
• libreplanet.org : is thing on? hello? <cricket chirping>
• Teach-In, Mid-January:
• Offer Users a choice of operating systems to convert. Have computers set up for folks to try out during Teach-In. Use Wayne’s desktop computer to forward X11 connections from the following different distributions (action item for Wayne):
• Mint
• Ubuntu
• Fedora
• Next Meeting: Wednesday, Dec 14, 2011 @ Gaiahouse or IMC
• no internets at IMC, so bring all the files you need if you plan to work on a project!
• tentative agenda:
• progress reports: Wayne (virtual machines & x11 forwarding), Pete (RSO status)
• come up with tentative teach-in schedule to introduce folks to free software