Minutes of meeting held on Sun 24th Dec 2017

proceedings/2017-12-24.md

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+# FSUG TVM meeting sunday 24/12/2017
+
+ - Venue : Museum (2.30 to 6 pm)
+
+### Attended members
+
+ 1 Aji
+ 2 Hari
+ 3 Kamal
+ 4 Tanzeem
+ 
+ 5. Kiran (friend of Aswin, Fsug tvm) from Ernakulam was available on phone
+
+Kiran has working experience on importing RYF devices on need.
+I have told him that we will get back to him based on need and how we can go forward in the open hardware way.
+
+The meeting went in the open hardware way.
+For selling RYF(Respect Your Freedom) devices
+
+Based on Mr. Tanzeem's suggestion the following activities were
+decided.
+
+1. Shopping cart application (assigned to Hari)
+2. H-node.org client (smartphone app that is cross-platform) -work assigned to Kamal and Hari
+3. E-magazine for FSUG which may later be a print-magazine (This was discussed last Sunday itself)
+4. Open-street mapping for Thiruvananthapuram (TBD, pls discuss in the group (probably from next sunday) or based on time and availability of members)
+5. Maintaining a server for FSUG with e-mail for members and for others on request with 3 or 4 Rasp Pi (Suggested by Aji)
+6. Mastering knowledge in use of GIMP, LibreOffice Writer/Calc and Scribus which will be useful for FSUG's future activities.
+Hari have told that he knows these well including Tex.
+7. For document management for use of managing FSUG's documents Mayan EDMS is suggested (not discussed in the meeting)
+8. Also the need for fund raising for the activities was put forward by Aji and acknowledged.
+
+## Shopping cart application
+ A shopping cart application based on Python/Django for buying and selling 
+hardware that is RYF / freedom friendly
+
+Customizing one from the following is suggested
+Lightning Fast Shop 	Technology:
+
+    Python 2.6
+    Django
+    jQuery
+
+License: BSD 	
+
+    Easy-to-use and powerful administration interface
+    One-Page Checkout with user account and/or anonymous
+    Payment: via cash on delivery, bank account, PayPal and credit cart
+    Variable payment prices, shipping methods
+    Products catalog, categories
+
+Read more
+
+Sample:
+themes.quintagroup.com developed by quintagroup - Powered by LFS
+
+Showcases: 34+ sites
+
+Other options
+http://quintagroup.com/cms/python/ecommerce
+
+## Creating an h-node.org client for smartphone
+
+### Requirements
+
+ - Download the xml from https://h-node.org/download/index/en
+   with search facility of hardware devices
+ - The list should be given in the priority of most RYF -friendly
+ - Notify the RSS feed updates in https://h-node.org/rss/modifications/en
+ - A desktop client may be installed in your OS https://h-node.org/wiki/page/en/client-for-h-node-org
+
+### Must read guidenlines
+ 
+ https://www.gnu.org/distros/free-system-distribution-guidelines.html
+ https://www.gnu.org/distros/free-distros.html