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LibreMiami first online meetup, May 2 2020

News

Hospitals need to repair ventilators, manufacturers are making that impossible

This meetup was library edition.

Courtesy of LM:

Courtesy of jgarte:

Courtest of ?:

lvi attack

secret rare internet points have been recorded

Business

On the issue of obtaining non-profit status

Consensus: Yea

Todo list has been started in Wiki, more information needs to be gathered.

Librebooting initiative

Waiting on male-to-female cables and Beagle Bone Black in mail. We will document the process and then be able to do a workshop.

On the issue of making libreboot computers for public schools

Consensus: Nay

A few members have experienced that schools are generally unreceptive of libre systems.

However, there is interest in perhaps reaching out to the visually imparied. This is definitely a possibility. Initiative to begin post-pandemic

On the issue of designing a macbook replacement in partnership with coding bootcamps

Consensus: Nay

Ultimately, the same resources are better spent on promoting and creating libre and gratis courses, books, tutorials, etc. and providing support for people self-educating. Public colleges and universities are recommendable beyond this.

Continuing LibreMiami during COVID-19

There will be an online meetup or other activity roughly every other week (first and third saturday 4-6pm)
There is interest in master classes on librebooting, installing replicant and Linux From Scratch
We can get guest speakers from anywhere in the world
One of our only options for marketing is online, so all marketing efforts need to be in this direction
- This makes finding a VPS usable without proprietary JavaScript urgent, issue will be created if none exists
- Blogs will be posted weekly, website improved
  - Some have volunteered to write blogs
  - We can get other people to write guest blogs too
- We need to reach out to more online communities
We should continue having monthly online meetups post-pandemic.