Toronto Workers Co-op Planning 21 Aug 2018

Attendees

• benhylau
• udit
• rob
• patcon

Related Docs

• Toronto Workers Cooperative 2019

Sync Up

• Each person share what they’ve been up to
  • benhylau
    • getting infra ready for OurNetworks
    • IPFS livestreaming. watchers are seeders. cheap way to livestream widely. lots of work with ipfs and partners who have interest in this.
      • ended up using minimal features that would allow HQ livestream to work.
      • 10 people streamed. low number but well-received, and lots of attention from ipfs team.
    • HOPE
      • prepping for meshstream demo. discovery component. stream video over ipfs, not internet. came from idea of mattz nicopace and benhylau. built for dweb during hope. yurko and ben.
    • dweb summit
      • feedback: event livestreaming is a pain for small events, so there seems to be a niche
      • science fair demo of meshstream.
      • workshop went better than expected! better than library. more technical ppl.
    • sustainable open source funding panel
      • panelists: nicopace@librerouter, dominic@ssbc, …
      • benhylau feels most aligned to ssb ppl. very community oriented. “when money comes, how do we use it to strenghten community relationships. NOT about features.”
      • goals: use money to do more impact
      • patcon: YouTube: Author summary of social physics
      • ben:
        • https://github.com/jnny/fundingopensource
        • https://github.com/jnny/fundingopensource/issues/3
    • Protocol Labs support opportunity
      • evan = research, juan = ceo, mattz = projects
      • they feel course/workshop is a part of their existing goals
        • https://github.com/tomeshnet/documents/blob/master/meeting_notes/20180808_dweb-sync-and-protocol-labs-support.md#protocol-labs-support-for-2018
        • want to help make facilitation easier. cost of hardware, etc.
        • travel costs to present or help other groups run workshop
      • udit: what does november plan look like?
        • start meeting f2f. start talking details. set up plan to execute. governance.

November Planning

What

• Values and Vision
• Economic Model
• Ownership Model
• Project Pipeline
• Work-style / Rhythms

When

• Not sure yet

How

• Weekend offsite?
  • benhylau likes this idea to kick things off, followed by a few meetings/work sessions

Discover

• What people want to work on in 2019
• Funding opportunities on our radar
  • CIRA, Mozilla, ISOC, Protocol Labs for Citizen Science project
• Realistic time commitment from each person
  • benhylau (to udit/rob): what type of project and amount would allow you to commit 2 days/week for 3 months?
    • range that PL can commit to is huge ($5K - $200K) based on https://protocol.ai/blog/ann-research-rfp/
    • has to do with whether it makes sense, and whether there is confidence in producing something

Potential Projects (for discussion in November)

• What is the criteria for project selection?
• What does a project pipeline look like?
• Current leads:
  • Protocol Labs: IPFS live steaming
    • https://docs.google.com/document/d/1sL6U6schDFQbkT787zQ1HA1sfyXJk2PRk_2ZNPBjaa4/edit
  • Steamlink:
    • originally project of: andreas and udit
    • Interest to develop program including HW/SW kit to teach networking and community science at once
    • for schools, science centers, makerspaces
    • to build science engagement; unveil data and technology stacks
    • potential backers: ISOC IoT Agenda, Mozilla, CIRA, biancawylie-affiliated
    • udit: main focus on community science, therefore CIRA
    • patcon: might be interest from public lab community
    • use case with Don Passialo
  • Others:
    • potential lead: patcon recently met David Tallan
      • previous director/VP of Toronto FreeNet
      • Senior Manager, Enterprise Web Development with Ontario gov

Next Steps

• udit to send Citizen Science project details

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