===== Meeting 9 February 2026 ===== Present: Jade, Rob, Simon, Maggie, Sarah, Wade. At Assemble, Stubbs St ==== Agenda ==== * Membership expectations * Working group / working meetings * Volunteering pipeline * SolarPunk meetup for next week * Website updates * Update from Wade and Maggie re. working through RPi Node doco ==== Actions ==== * Rob and Simon: get info ready for the March meetup * Jade and Rob: prepare call for involvement of volunteers for node stewardship at Feb meetup * Maggie: prepare to take signups. Do we want an online list of volunteers? * All: for the Solarpunk meetup consider bringing food, or help Jade with catering arrangements - e.g. from Green Refectory * Sarah, Jade, Simon: update website to provide up to date info about membership, volunteers and getting involved. * Sarah, Jade: continue to pursue joining Coop Cloud federation ==== Notes ==== === Establishing nodes === * A key benefit of setting up nodes in people’s homes (rather than organisations) is that it enables building volunteer base; engaged node maintainers. A pathway for hobbyist engagement. * Should we aim to find a solution to the challenges of getting a static IP, to ease participation? Not a priority. The CGNAT issue shouldn’t be a barrier. Tailscale or similar may be a way forward The roadmap (See https://lores.tech/roadmap/ for more detail) * Wikipedia is low hanging fruit * Static websites would be next * Community centre / organisational nodes and home-housed nodes are part of the vision - Then building relationship with community facilities can come later * After that need to start investigating the connectivity question and providing other services === Volunteer needs and recruitment === * Will be a big win for Jade to have someone else maintain our Kiwix recipe * Ideally we want about 10 volunteers who can steward notes, requires a moderate level of technical engagement. 1-4 hours per week for the average, * Envisaged that some may get more involved; contribute to open source coding to help solve problems. * The LoRes website has a technical roadmap but we don’t have a roadmap for personnel and governance. How do we funnel interest from potential volunteers at the Solarpunk meetup? * Sarah suggests light touch approach: website info about what we need, request they email us. Maintain a list with info about what they are interested in doing / learning. Let's dedicate every other Meetup to a working bee, and meet and greet for new / potential volunteers. * Jade: we should also add them to our room on Matrix === Volunteer management === * Can we find someone who wants to take ownership of recruiting and onboarding 10 volunteers? * Sarah notes that volunteer management is a tough gig. Ways to make it manageable: reduce, automate, pay someone? * Let's reduce it: aim for 3-5 volunteers who can be node stewards. Maybe we'll find one who is willing to take on training or coordination after a few months. === Node setup report from Wade and Maggie === * Doco currently assumes someone with a bit of technical knowledge and skills; e.g. assumption was that they might already have dual booted Linux. * Wade: A lot of the documentation could be a script. A prepackaged image that can be put on a RPi with some config. Or perhaps we can keep with what we’ve got for now for debugging purposes. * BUT Blackboxing not ideal because we want people to be familiar with what's going on: node stewards are more important than nodes. === Solarpunk meetup next week === * Rob and Simon: get info ready for the next meetup * We can put out a stronger call for involvement of volunteers for node stewardship * Maggie can take signups * At the March meeting, the following month we will be hacking stuff: Build your own RPi node and learn how to maintain * All: consider bringing food, or help Jade with catering arrangements - e.g. from Green Refectory * Sarah, Jade, Simon: website update to provide up to date info about membership, volunteers and getting involved.