Toronto Workers Co-op Meeting 7 Nov 2018

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Time: 7 Nov 2018 5:30 pm EST
Location: https://appear.in/offline
Attending: udit, yurko, dcwalk, benhylau, garry

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Agenda

Our collective history

Sep 00 ansuz: manifesto, that’s the word you’re looking for
Sep 26 yurko: bridge riot to the mailing list
Oct 03 dcwalk: minimal computing, reuse every hash
Oct 04 dcwalk: Also, buuuuy iiiit benhylau! Add to the hoard
Oct 31 yurko: we can then become ONE with the coop…

Funding leads

1. H2020 with XWiki + MaZi/NetCommons + Guifi (benhylau to pitch the idea)
2. H2020 with XWiki + zelf (benhylau + ansuz spoke with zelf briefly)
3. Mozilla Foundation (benhylau got details from Mehan, community networks + open-source project areas)
4. Norway national grants (benhylau spoke with Stig about possible collaborative project ideas)

Domain name

• In case you haven’t heard:

  benhylau: if I one day meet this person I am going to squat all their domains they dream in all of domain authorities and put up a fuck you page on every single one of them

• benhylau proposes .cat domain for our current project and theme our projects .cat .dog

Schedule Dec retreat

• Plan:
  • https://hackmd.io/pY2llFzrRDeO7TebdaauQQ?view
• Poll or time (week of Dec 2-8):
  • https://github.com/cryptographydog/december-meetup/issues/10

Meeting Notes

Our collective history

• We’ll put them on a blockchain

Funding leads

1. H2020 with XWiki + MaZi/NetCommons + Guifi (benhylau to pitch the idea)
   • Opportunity for more tech
   • Seems like there is a fit with how they work with Guifi folks (see: http://nethood.org/slides/barcelona_currencies/antoniadis_et_al_barcelona_paper_draft.pdf)
   • They have grant admin and writing expertise
   • Maybe a good fit with granting trends and their current roadmap and planning
   • Next step… set up a meeting?
   • dcwalk: Make clear what do we want to get out of this, and be mindful of extractive practices
   • dcwalk: can this wait until after dec?
   • dcwalk: what is xwiki role?
     • xwiki already in 2020 horizon grant partnership
   • dcwalk: what is our capacity?
2. H2020 with XWiki + zelf (benhylau + ansuz spoke with zelf briefly)
   • Did not discuss, wait for ansuz
3. Mozilla Foundation (benhylau got details from Mehan, community networks + open-source project areas)
   • “active community contributing and using the project”
   • “path to sustainability”
   • low overhead review process
   • benhylau: what would be the pitch
     • could make a case that tomesh is there?
     • meshable device
     • p2p workshops
4. Norway national grants (benhylau spoke with Stig about possible collaborative project ideas)
   • Did not discuss, wait for ansuz

• Keep a long-list for leads
• If any applications are being formulated before the visioning retreat, should think through very carefully who is able to work
• This seems like the outcome of the end of a year (e.g., we want to level up/ladder up)
• dcwalk: Can we defer as much as possible until after retreat?
• Hook into existing ecosystems:
  • Join Data Together reading group
  • Do a lot of coordination on SSB
  • Use Loomio so we can relate to processes of other groups
• Meeting became domains of mushrooms, and having space (dcwalk stuff basically)
• In Barcelona, the city gave space + funding for this initiative:
  • El LleialTec: Pla de Sobirania Tecnològica als equipaments municipals
  • Workshops, meetings about open-source software, community processes for deciding digital tools, document extensively so the model for “Technological Sovereignty Plan for municipal facilities” can be reproducible
  • benhylau thinks the analysis in the doc is very solid
• Cira:
  • End-of-Feb deadline, benhylau thinks the fit is excellent
  • udit thinks ethnographic research (as a pitch) should be a pre-requisite for mesh tech
  • udit super interested, garry pretty interested, benhylau think ansuz could be interested
  • benhylau raised that in other projects there are parallel efforts, but it’d be nice for Toronto to have local efforts funded through Cira
    • e.g. Nico’s work documenting indigenous community needs, MaZi project documenting communities in previous H2020 cycle

TODO

• benhylau: Make a poll for retreat date and time
• benhylau: Set up call with Nico + Panayotis, put on our chat
• benhylau: Set up Loomio for prototype
• dcwalk: First pass on Playbook: https://hackmd.io/pY2llFzrRDeO7TebdaauQQ?edit
• benhylau: Finalize-ish Playbook: https://hackmd.io/pY2llFzrRDeO7TebdaauQQ?edit
• Form Legal working group: dcwalk udit benhylau
  • Legal requirements understandings (doc creation?) add to playbook: https://hackmd.io/pY2llFzrRDeO7TebdaauQQ?edit
    • “set of reccomendations”
    • filter? “What bases do we have to cover”-style checklist
    • identify “domain experts”

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