Committee Meeting Minutes: 9 Nov 2026

• Maggie
• Wade
• Simon
• Jade
• Sarah

Meeting held at Catalyst

• Committee end! Reflection
• Running the AGM
• Wrap up
• Next year's organisation and working groups beyond the committee

• Rob: good traction and seeing the pay off of the work being done to builld the community, people are turning up and we have visibility.
• Maggie: tapping into substantial interest in this topic.
• Jade: Lores adopted coop cloud and we are the peer to peer platform that allows these apps to do their thing. On the cusp of going from one devs to two people to about 8 people keen to contribute.
• MBT: vol nodes stewards group about 17 ppl in the channel 8-9 have succeeded. Not clear whether that's an ongoing interest. 3-4 weeks ago asked ppl to upgrade but no-one has done that yet.
• Developing ideas for multiple configurations: micro sites and macrosites (the latter would be a bigger security question.
• Community: Solarpunk group is about 300 ppl but probably have over 300 people attending.
• Cyberia Lounge soft launch
• Connection to campaigns against AI data centres and enthusiasm for
• Story of growth but haven't harnessed it to do much yet
• Jade working professionally in P2P Ecosystem is pre-version
• Connections to groups that are interested. We have a few groups reaching out to us cold, e.g. Agro Ecology, Feral computing.
• CoopCloud activity: neighbourhood first tech getting a lot of chatter
• Sarah: we pulled together a grant application, good energy

• No proposals
• Financials - we've received about $500 for memberships
• President's report
• Aim is that working groups should do work and the Committee doesn't need to
  • Radicalise can provide a model for 4x 3 month seasons for people to opt in to a working group
  • A model for people to signup for the work they want to do
• Committee options: a minimum viable committee meeting just the model rules requirement
  • Monthly meeting would constitute a working group and the minimum viable
  • Or, we could still have a full committee and spin up the working groups. If we just asked people to be on the committee we would probably get
  • We do need someone to look after Memberships and complaints.

What are the groups we would launch with

• Cyberia Lounge already up and running
• Solarpunks meetup
• First site in Merri-bek
• A software group to look after the coop cloud recipes e.g. Matrix, Docuwiki
• Lores working group (multidisciplinary). Needs to own the Lores roadmap.

Future:

• Energy systems
• Lora

Committee Roles:

• President
• Treasurer
• Secretary Simon will keep looking after the website
• Partnerships
• Memberships

• Making sure the system of working groups is working
• Strategy?

• Jade is in a reasonable position to continue at current level of commitment to full time work
• But is spread across multiple projects
• Jade “Resilient Tech Expert” brand might be of interest

First site in Merri-bek

• Most sites designed to serve to the internet will probably involve a second NBN connection
• If we put a big server at a small site on NBN then we are running a risk of DDOS blocking
• Maggie suggests: Coburg High Tech facility
• Church feels like about the right site
• Brunswick Town Hall upstairs; Nat Aboud's project
• Sussex St - Jodie?
• Jaz at Fawkner House. Timothy Perkins?
• NECCHI runs two in Brunswick.