For folks interested in attending our monthly FOSS/Libre 'meetings' (meetups, gatherings, sessions, etc.) which are (post-Covid) now virtual and open to folks anywhere, you can find us (starting tomorrow, Tues 10 December 2024, 20:00)  at https://meeting.iridescent.nz  That URL will redirect you to the video conference room for the month.

Tomorrow's meeting will be the first one to take place on our new BigBlueButton instance (talk.iridescent.nz) and we can look through it as part of the meeting. 

After a couple outages of our Mastodon instance back in July, our infrastructure has been very stable, and I've been applying updates periodically as upstream services release them.

The 2022 AGM of the NZOSS was held on Wednesday 23rd March 2022 at 8.30 pm.

The meeting was held online using the NZOSS instance of Big Blue Button.

The Agenda for the NZOSS 2022 AGM is as follows:

1. Preamble - (Carl)
2. President's Report - (Tim)
3. Treasurer's Report - (Carl)
4. NZOSS Council confirmation - (Carl)
5. Other Business

No submissions or nominations from NZOSS members were received for consideration for this AGM. 

We had another very quiet 2020/2021 financial year. In person meetings, conferences, events and travel were almost non-existent while dealing with the Covid pandemic. Consequently there were no requests for funding or support. Catalyst IT and Catalyst Cloud still support us very generously and the only other outgoings were for domain name registration and meetup account charges. Total income from subscriptions was $701 with total expenses of $117 with an end of year account balance of $4,126.

The aim to create a strong, digitally-enabled society is laudable. However, we believe that the proposals place too much trust in systems that will undermine the overarching aim: "Enabling all of Aotearoa New Zealand to flourish and prosper in a digital world".