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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

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