Increase Digital Justice Focus

(see all of Proposals)

At the start of the 2025-2026 Committee year, we agreed to focus on on LoRes approaches so that we moved quickly to delivering value without losing out focus. So far, we have a working tech stack for the Multi-node Wikipedia process, with approximately 15 volunteers working through setting it up, but progress is slow. None have completed the process in a two month period, several are close.

We have a lot of energy from interested volunteers this year, particularly after the first Solarpunk meetup which attracted about 70 people who were excited about either climate resilient tech, or getting off big tech.

We have a grant application in focused on the educational angle of training people to setup and run servers.

The process of setting up a LoRes mesh is currently bottle-necking at Node Stewards. There are ways that we can improve that situation. Perhaps more direct hands-on training is needed. Perhaps a more simplified setup would help. Perhaps better instructions for volunteers using Windows or Mac on their computer. We have discussed that one of the goals here isn't just to get nodes setup, but to empower volunteers to understand nodes so that they can become community node stewards, and also so that some of them (the more technical ones) can get involved in developing and maintaining Co-op Cloud recipes and/or FOSS software.