Committee Meeting Minutes: 14 September 2026

Maggie (Zoom)

Wade

Simon

Jade

Sarah

Everything Open Talks

AI Policy

LoRes UX: Design Directions and student involvement

Partnership opportunities

Taiga board review: AGM, bank account

Solarpunk meetups

Jade will propose a tutorial: install LoRes stack on your laptop

Sarah will propose a talk on how we do

How to add ppl to Matrix: Jade needs to write this down

Jade to add Rob to bank account, and send statements

Oct Maker Community

Nov Melbourne Connect

Coburg Studios may be a space to explore: now fully battery powered (though not offgrid)

8 ppl have successfully set up their nodes; Kiwix app install is now a separate subsequent step. Some folks need to update. Maintenance section in the doc now started. Some QoL improvements are needed e.g. to see what version. Nodes are on

Now we have one other contributor! Greg: a meaty PR.

Priority: starting to unlock other contributors to the project.

Multi-node Wikipedia is just a Proof of Concept

People are knocking on our door asking for the services we are offering. Neighbourhood centres. Food Sovereignty Alliance. Feral Computing.

DashChat is being realigned to be local first. But note it's not open / foundation held but the technical approach is interesting.

Co-design opportunities around the LoRes Tech;

Students and design professional to build a brief;

Incorporate input from First Nations people;

New design approaches needed to communicate the status of the node and network;

A key idea: computing is now embedded in place. Re-geographising computers.