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Committee Meeting Minutes: 14 September 2026

Agenda

Media: Jade in The Age, Sarah in 3CR radio
Jade conversation with Carmen, Neighbourhood Houses in Northcote SPAN
Cr Helen Palaites resident meeting discussion about stakeholder involvement and unity. We need a toe hold now;
- Upshot recycling of Bunnings
- Concern: possible change of zoning. why speaking to community.
- We could be part of toehold in that site if we want.

Review against strategy

We are alignment that would be good to have a strong first location, as well as distributed

Contributions are

Need to think about operational planning for our services

Month-to-month responsibilities and sunsetting, hand-over
Radicalise 3mo opt might work for Digital Lounge
Ongoing responsibilities might not work that way.
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?
Volunteer labour

19 ppl in the node stward channel, 9 nodes connected
Naarm Solarpunk test network. Theory: see where people are across Merri-bek, see where people are and encourage them to move a steward to a focus location.
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
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
Sarah would like another conversation some time about low carbon computing (i.e. things that can be run on solar + battery.

We've done well in preparing for more contributors, Greg has been doing good work
October meet up: Weds 21
AGM planning. Aim to send invitations this week
- Weds Nov 18th would be good for the AGM (already scheduled for the SolarPunk Meetup)
- We need to finalise the finances in time for that (Rob and Jade)
- Choose venue (Rob). Rob has been notified that there are free council venues we can use, will explore that option;
- Will need to send invitations by email (Simon)
- Speaker (Jade)