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 ===== Digital Justice at Merri-bek Tech =====
+I'm proposing for consideration changes to our work on two fronts.
+==== Helping people get off big tech ====
+We have people in our group interested in this area, and I believe we could probably run some of the DJS workshops or lounges. Using material like their "get off spotify" workshop, or their Tech Radar or Skill Tree, could be deployed now.
+This could also work well in combination with our Solarpunk meetups, particularly if we consider the connection to Melbourne Uni (students are good candidates for this area) and/or with Catalyst as it re-opens.
+This work may take additional organisational labour, but it may also use different skills to the LoRes work. I'd suggest that we don't embark on this unless we can find a few interested volunteers.
+A specific approach to this is that if we had a couple of volunteers interested to learn how to run the Digital Lounge format, the DJS folks would be happy to come to Naarm, run a "train the trainer" session and run our first
+lounge to show us how it's done (if we do venue, promotions, etc).
+==== Balance LoRes with Centralised Hosting ====
+LoRes approaches are going to take a while to deliver much value. Meanwhile, as a group we're still using google for most of our work, as are most progressive groups in the area. We talked briefly about running a larger server when we hoped that it could be at Balam Balam, and then shelved that idea.
+If we run a larger server and install open source apps that are not ready for a LoRes setup, there exists a risk that we make it harder to move people onto LoRes later, but there are steps we can take to mitigate this. In particular, using Co-op Cloud for both means we can take a hybrid approach where some services stay up when the internet is down, and some don't, and we just try and make this clear.
+I propose that we go back to planning a centralised server in conjunction with the Raspberry Pi nodes. It'd be part of the LoRes mesh, but it'd install and run FOSS software that really wasn't offline ready. It'd use Co-op cloud.
+I don't know where this server would go. I think it'd be better if it was physically within Merri-bek, not in a datecenter. We could move towards getting it on solar. I think Catalyst might be the easiest option, but CERES would be great (it's just been really hard to achieve). The focus of this software might be more on FOSS software for groups rather than individuals, so that progressive groups don't need to organise on big tech.
+===== Parnership =====
+I met with DJS folks today and we agreed to keep the conversation going in a shared loomio group. There are some clear areas of technical overlap. For example, if we pick the same platform for user management on Co-Op cloud, we'll be better able to work together. I'd like to bring a few other MBT people into this conversation to help drive it forward.

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