Present: Jade, Simon, Rob, Maggie, Wade, Sarah

• Statements: Jade to pass to Rob.

• 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.

• 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: Merri-bek Creek doesn’t require membership
• VINC: it’s about the space

• November seems good.
• We could find out what the “members” want to be working towards and want us to be doing.

• 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.

• 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?