Hi Kathy,

I'm not across all the details, but here's the letter from Jeremy's
website and an article from The Conversation.

https://jeremy.visser.name/2009/08/python-iview/

http://theconversation.edu.au/python-iview-copyright-crusader-or-vigilante-operative-9763

Regards,
Ben

On 28/10/12 05:26, Kathy Reid wrote:
> Sorry for replying to list on this - was skimming your notes Ben (great
> notes, thanks) and read about ABC cease and desist to Jeremy. Could
> someone fill me in on the details? It sounds really out of character for
> the ABC to do this. To formally issue a cease and desist they must be
> worried about something (?DRM?).
> 
> Kind regards,
> K.
> 
> On 27/10/12 03:24, Ben Sturmfels wrote:
>> Hi Folks,
>>
>> Thanks for coming along to the discussion group on the 18 October! Notes
>> are below.
>>
>> The next discussion group is on 15 November. Adam Bolte will be telling
>> us about his explorations in running free software network services from
>> home, including email, chat, microblogging, code hosting and media
>> sharing. Ben Finney will be telling us how to avoid being tracked on the
>> web.
>>
>> On 20 December we're having an evening BBQ, probably on the banks of the
>> Yarra. We realise that it's a busy time for many, so this will be very
>> casual.
>>
>> On 17 January we're holding a games night to follow-up from our highly
>> successful event a little while back.
>>
>> I'm really looking forward to the next few months!
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Ben
>>
>>
>> Notes from discussion group 18 October 2012
>> -------------------------------------------
>>
>>   - Ben demoed Media Goblin for hosting photos and videos and his use
>> to host
>>     baby photos
>>
>>   - Discussed the Media Goblin crowd-funding campaign
>>     - goals to build federated replacement for YouTube/Flick etc.
>>     - choice to use FSF infrastructure rather than Kickstarter
>>     - experiences with crowd-funding, fund-raising and grants
>>
>>   - Ben's annual urge to free the E-tax income tax software
>>     - most present use an accountant
>>     - small number use E-tax or complete tax return on paper
>>     - standard free software approach of just rewriting?
>>       - could we do better than just clone E-tax?
>>       - our chances of connecting to ATO's network services to eg.
>> submit return?
>>         - perhaps just printing return would be big step
>>         - contacting the ATO? it might save work for them
>>         - getting the API details under "freedom of information"
>>         - what is the future is for desktop E-tax?
>>      - ATO could well be building a web-app
>>
>>   - ABC iView
>>     - ABC's cease and desist on Jeremy Visser's python-iview
>>
>>   - Discussed upcoming meetings/events (see above)
>>     - December/January is busy but decided to hold events anyway
>>
>>
>>
>>
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