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committee_meeting_2026-10-12 [2026/10/12 22:17] – [Attendees] sarahcommittee_meeting_2026-10-12 [2026/11/09 18:42] (current) – sarah
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-======Committee Meeting Minutes: 14 September 2026 ======+======Committee Meeting Minutes: 12 October 2026 ======
  
 ==== Attendees ==== ==== Attendees ====
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   * Media: Jade in The Age, Sarah in 3CR radio    * Media: Jade in The Age, Sarah in 3CR radio 
 +  * We've done well in preparing for more contributors, Greg has been doing good work
 +  * Sarah has a 2year part time secondment to Melbourne Climate Futures which provides more of a platform for research focusing on low-carbon computing https://www.unimelb.edu.au/climate/home#about-mcf
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 +====Possible locations for a community tech hub====
   * Spaces / locations: somewhere we can set up a server, battery, solar panels...    * Spaces / locations: somewhere we can set up a server, battery, solar panels... 
     * Jade conversation with Carmen, Neighbourhood Houses in Northcote SPAN       * Jade conversation with Carmen, Neighbourhood Houses in Northcote SPAN  
     * Sarah conversations with Catalyst (J, Lucas) post Newkind,      * Sarah conversations with Catalyst (J, Lucas) post Newkind, 
     * Sarah asking friends in council to keep an ear to the ground to find a space      * Sarah asking friends in council to keep an ear to the ground to find a space 
-  * Cr Helen Politis resident meeting discussion about stakeholder involvement and unity. +  * Kangan Tafe site Coburg North  
 +    * https://climateactionmerribek.org/2025/10/29/consultation-on-former-kangan-tafe-site-in-coburg-north/ 
 +    * Cr Helen Politis resident meeting discussion about stakeholder involvement and unity. 
     * Encouraging community involvement, to get a toe-hold now;      * Encouraging community involvement, to get a toe-hold now; 
     * Upshop (Mario Milici) upcycling of materials that would have gone to landfill       * Upshop (Mario Milici) upcycling of materials that would have gone to landfill  
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     * Sarah and Maggie will discuss further      * Sarah and Maggie will discuss further 
  
-====Review against strategy==== +  * It would good to have a strong first location, as well as distributed nodes.
-  * We are alignment that would be good to have a strong first location, as well as distributed+
  
-Contributions are +====Planning for service operations====
  
 Need to think about operational planning for our services Need to think about operational planning for our services
   * Month-to-month responsibilities and sunsetting, hand-over    * Month-to-month responsibilities and sunsetting, hand-over 
-  * Radicalise 3mo opt might work for Digital Lounge +  * Radicalise system for opt-in volunteering e.g. every 3months: might work for Digital Lounge but not for running essential digital services such as email; 
-  * Ongoing responsibilities might not work that way. +
   * Jade had envisaged several people would work together to steward each server at a shared location   * Jade had envisaged several people would work together to steward each server at a shared location
-  * Vibes: can we use a first location as a way to work out how people will work together to run a server?  +  * Can we use this first location as a way to work out how people will work together to run a server?  
-  * Volunteer labour +
-  * We've done well in preparing for more contributors, Greg has been doing good work+
  
 ====LoRes Nodes update==== ====LoRes Nodes update====
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   * Getting close to many of the pieces we need for    * Getting close to many of the pieces we need for 
   * But underlying P2P technologies such as P2Panda are not yet 1.0, will still make breaking changes up to 1.0 so may have backwards compatibility problems   * But underlying P2P technologies such as P2Panda are not yet 1.0, will still make breaking changes up to 1.0 so may have backwards compatibility problems
-  * We are currently asking node stewards to ride a lot of uncertainty. Currently need people who are willing to stay with the process, potentially work through it several times. If we can host another piece of software out of the many out there. Doesn't need to be a RPi, could be e.g. Mac Mini or  +  * We are currently asking node stewards to ride a lot of uncertainty. Currently need people who are willing to stay with the process, potentially work through it several times. If we can host another piece of software out of the many out there. Doesn't need to be a RPi, could be e.g. Mac Mini. 
-  * Sarah would like another conversation some time about low carbon computing (i.e. things that can be run on solar + battery.+
  
  

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