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Committee Meeting 2025-11-10
Present: Jade, Simon, Rob, Sarah, Maggie
Agenda
- Check in
- Year kickoff
- General Ways of Working together
- Vision
- Values & Principles
- 3 year mission
- 1 year mission
- Project management
- Roles & Responsibilities
- Current business
- Multi-node wikipedia
- Solarpunk meetup
- Local social media
- Next meeting
- Facilitator, scribe
Minutes
- Check-in: lots of people feeling busy
- Agenda discussed and agreed
- How we like to work together
- Rob: no strong preferences. Prefers some face to face.
- Maggie: Happy with some remote, this F2F is good. Likes being prompted. Likes working in pairs.
- Sarah: also likes working in pairs
- Simon: used to working autonomously. Pairs and mentoring approaches work well. Used to working asynchronously.
- Jade: likes meetings but finds them Likes to be given the outcome desired rather than being told how to do something.
- we can do hybrid meetings in future
- Vision, values, principles
- Homework: Read the About Us tab on Merribek.tech:- vision, values and principles. Bring suggestions for changes at next meeting. E.g. we're missing the social media project (though the next page has more info, includes the 3 things: reduce carbon, resilient in the face of outages; digital justice through local grassroots). This could be better captured. We will discuss next meeting.
- Simon will think about how we operate as a committee
- 1 year mission: what do we want to try to achieve in the coming 12 months.
- Review the rules of association and improve on them.
- Host something on some resilient tech.
- Jade feels like a bottleneck and there aren't many volunteers contributing many hours. Relationship here at Balam Balam seems like it could move us forward. Time to
- LoRes Roadmap developed by Jade: Wikipedia is the first item on the roadmap, then mirroring websites, then hosting static websites. Requires e.g. user accounts. Subsequent step would be email; mailing lists. Those allow us to target community groups. Consider e.g. Wordpress plugins that allow local groups to generate static sites from their Wordpress.
Local Social Media
- There is a case for doing one thing at a time
- Mastodon feels like a reasonable choice
- We have a local server here in BB
- It's hard to see what we would learn from e.g. Mastodon
How do we spread the focus and avoid things bottlenecking at Jade? The things that need to be done.
- Partnerships & relationships
- Governance. Processes, policies need to be written
- Volunteer coordinator
- Communications and outreach.
- Cluster meetups, courses. Making sure the solarpunk meetups happen each month < this could be rotating
- Grants
- 6 of us plus James (technical). Maybe Ben. Matt less available, sometimes available on request, pulling back. Also some twistable arms. Doing these things in pairs might be helpful.
- Action: consider how to divvy up the roles
- Maggie and Jade could partner on the outreach and communication space.
- Donna: Fawkner is exciting place for community groups at the moment. Migrant populations with skills and motivation.
- Ask for a space inside the resilience hub.
- Simon and Rob could partner on running a Solarpunk event soon. e.g. Lily's talk on how programmers influence society. Tech for activists. Some old dude to talk about appropriate technology.