Taiga board – perhaps quarterly instead of monthly?
Telematics Trust grant app rejected :(
Solarpunks Meetups now got a good system.
Node stewards tend to get stuck at the router / public facing IP steps. Would be good if that wasn’t a step so that it could work successfully locally and then defer the public facing networking. The CGNAT step seems hard and it requires tinkering with home router.
Acquiring more RPis;
A good inflow of interest; a fair few people who are interested, trying to coral them towards work, including the working groups.
“Get off big tech sooner” Working Group is burgeoning, looks like it will be getting started with some stewarding on our part. Rach, Lucas; two branches that can hopefully be brought together.
Membership questions
Dues, sense of belonging contribution and participation and involvement,
“what’s in it for me” – expectations and responsibilities
Membership engagement: how to move into volunteering, make it a bit more compelling.
Models that combine volunteering and membership
Friends-of groups: e.g. Friends of Merri Creek doesn’t require membership, people turn up and help out. Different to the Friends of Moonee Ponds Creek (less to get involved with, just meetings, boring.)
VINC: it’s about the space
AGM preparation
November seems good.
We could find out what the “members” want to be working towards and want us to be doing.
Future Activities
Set up servers or partner with others who can run servers for getting non-big tech services? Continue to pursue
Should we pursue a partnership with a local org where we can site a node? Probably not: Wade, let’s focus on getting some nodes up and running in stewards homes. Sarah, we could burn out the relationships if unclear how long until something useful.
Rob: could first put up our MBT website and the LRT materials.
What can we get volunteers involved in and working on?
Networking. Meshnet clubs – e.g. Melbourne Wifi now pretty much defunct. Meshcore is “winning the battle” from meshtastic to meshcore. But for us the right answer would be to leapfrog to Reticulum, to build across a range of different network interfaces, and means that people can get started without a network. Reticulum: would be a separate project.
What’s missing for plugging P2Panda into Reticulum; is of interest to a lot of people
LORA devices will need enclosures: Volunteers needed to do 3D printing, connect them up.
Coding apps for the nodes. There’s also the approach of building interesting stuff to run on Nodes.
Preparing for more people to contribute to the code base. Currently we have a one person coder model, and there’s a lot to do to shift to a community of open-source contributors.
Code of conduct
Platforms
Decisions about how to deal with AI
Shepherding people who are new to the Solarpunk: Digital Lounge pathway?