=====  Meeting 12 January 2026  =====

Present: Jade, Rob, Simon, Maggie, Sarah, Wade online.

At Assemble, Stubbs St

==== Agenda ====

  * Membership fees
  * Email address for MBT
  * Expressions of interest not working
  * Taiga
  * Progress on RPi LoRes Nodes

==== Notes ====

=== Balam Balam Server ===
  * Sarah emailed Joe, waiting for confirmation sufficient power available in the server room
  * Joe indicated we may need to pay for technician to attend when we install, we can cover that.

=== Solarpunk Meetups ===
  * Third Weds of every month
  * Jade’s Neighbourhood First Software talk (for the Everything Open event in Canberra) would make a good option for the kick off meeting, followed by something interactive 
  * The Adaptation Game: there are funds available, at a later stage
  * 18 Feb will be the first one. At Balam Balam. 
  * Advertise on Meetup.com - Rob
  * Promote through our networks – Sarah

=== Membership fees ===
  * Draft a Matrix message: Maggie
  * Include a PayID: our new email address? Jade


===  Email address for MBT ===
  * Currently using Fastmail, Melbourne based. on Jade's Family account. 
  * Jade and Wade will set something up

=== Setting up LoRes nodes ===
  * The assumption has been new participants with nodes will have Linux but not everyone is running Linux 
  * Wade suggests a techie and non-techie sit down and work through the documentation. Wade and Maggie to address through that together
  * Updating Wikipedia in future – pass around thumbdrives instead of downloading Zims; as a first step, a blank thumbdrive can work, but QWix will be empty. 
  * LoRes node set up at Balam Balam: Jade envisages that the node should run on a VPS on the server for now. 
  * Down the track, we can look at a RPi to run from radio instead of via Internet

=== Website updates===
  * Expression of interest form on the website doesn’t work - Simon will fix that
  * For now, add our email and link to the Meetup group: Solarpunk meetups