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| - | ===== Meeting | + | ===== Meeting |
| Present: Jade, Rob, Simon, Maggie, Sarah, Wade. | Present: Jade, Rob, Simon, Maggie, Sarah, Wade. | ||
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| ==== Actions ==== | ==== Actions ==== | ||
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| + | * 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 ==== | ==== Notes ==== | ||
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| === Establishing nodes === | === 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. | + | * 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. |
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| - | * Should we aim to find a solution to the challenges of getting a static IP, to ease participation? | + | |
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| - | The roadmap (See https:// | + | |
| - | * 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 | + | |
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| - | === Volunteer recruitment === | + | |
| - | * Will be a big win for Jade to have someone else maintain our Kiwix recipe | + | |
| - | * The LoRes website has a technical roadmap but we don’t have a roadmap for personnel and governance. | + | |
| - | * Ideally we want about 10 volunteers who can steward notes, requires a moderate level of technical engagement. | + | |
| - | * We can anticipate some momentum and interest from potential volunteers at the Solarpunk meetup How do we funnel that? | + | |
| - | * Sarah suggests Light touch: website info about what we need, request they email us. Maintain a list with info about what they are interested in doing / learning. | + | |
| - | * Jade: we can also add them to our room on Matrix | + | |
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| - | 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. Blackboxing not ideal because node stewards are more important than nodes. | + | |
| - | Offloading can involve: | + | |
| - | - Baselining and being the person that the buck stops with | + | |
| - | - Tasks | + | |
| - | Volunteer involvement and management: | + | |
| - | Can we find someone who wants to baseline us having 10 volunteers | + | |
| - | Node stewards: 1-4 hours a week | + | |
| - | Some open source coding contributors who will help solve problems | + | |
| - | Let’s aim for 3-5 volunteers who can be node stewards … try out our instructions | + | |
| - | Call to action can be stronger at the talk next week | + | |
| - | Maggie can take signups, the following month we will be hacking stuff. | + | |
| - | Build your own RPi node and learn how to maintain it. | + | |
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| - | Solarpunk meetup next week: | + | |
| - | Rob and Simon: get info ready for the next meetup | + | |
| - | All: consider bringing food, or help Jade with collecting food from Green Refectory | + | |
| - | Sarah, Jade, Simon: website update to provide up to date info about membership volunteers and getting involved. | + | |
| - | + | ||
| + | The roadmap (See https:// | ||
| + | * 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 | ||
| - | === Solarpunk Meetups | + | === Volunteer needs and recruitment |
| - | * Third Weds of every month | + | |
| - | * Jade’s Neighbourhood First Software talk (for the Everything Open event in Canberra) would make a good option | + | |
| - | * 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 === | + | How do we funnel interest from potential volunteers at the Solarpunk meetup? |
| - | * Draft a Matrix message: Maggie | + | |
| - | * Include a PayID: our new email address? Jade | + | |
| + | === 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. | ||
| - | === 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=== | + | === Node setup report from Wade and Maggie |
| - | * Expression | + | |
| - | * For now, add our email and link to the Meetup group: Solarpunk meetups | + | |
| + | * BUT Blackboxing not ideal because we want people | ||
| + | === 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. | ||