2020-04-01 Hypha Worker Co-op: All Hands

Time: 5:00-6:00pm ET
Location: https://jitsi.hypha.coop/hyphacoop
Attending: dc, el, uv, gi, bl
Cultivator: dc
Notetaker: gi yj, el, gi, bl, dc, pc, uv

Agenda

Item	Time (min)
Personal Checkins	5
Announcements	5
Task Board Review	15
Working Group Updates	5
Project Updates	5
Discussions	20
Process Checkout	5

Notes

Personal Checkins

played any good remote board games? (shameless agm research) or remote social?
- dc: Codenames
  - uv: Dante working on a codenames tools (ON last year)
- uv:
  - interesting app call houseparty (friends in india are using it)
  - Corp intreg (fake info, downloads = bank accounts getting hacked)
  - Million dollar reward on misinfo
  - Weird virutal (WoW)
- bl: MTG remote (hoping)
  - Not with digital things
  - Turn on the camera and play with physical cards
- el: No video games
  - Not yet a social games have come up
- gi:
  - Escape from Tarkov + Discord
  - Apex Legends (extremely shameful)

Announcements

Re-launching website end this week
No announcements

Task Board Review

Archive DONE tasks
- Been archiving PRs throughout the week
- Celebrate between calls we’ve completed 7 top-level issues
- Dissertation, OPS, branding, …
Review HIGH [priority-★★★] tasks
- Client alignment feedback: No progress
- IT management opportunity:
  - Postponed because of COVID
  - yj to update status in GH issue
- Internal COVID response:
  - yk, bl: Research to where things fit to hypha
  - Government subsidies (finance in progress)
  - OPs in progess?
    - Ready to review by tonight (coming out of webinar)
    - Contacts from webinar
    - Bring it up in WGs (biz-dev, finance)
    - Main thing to do is refuse unsafe work (report to OPs)
  - Three seperate issues for: Dejardins loan, government subsidies, co-op support
- Establish brand/Launch new (full) website - Demoing today - Coming out of co-working Mon/Tues - Some brand identity stuff came up
Triage NEW tasks
- No new tasks
  - Self-triaging
Assign UNASSIGNED tasks
- BBB logs
  - el to document
- NextCloud
  - Distributed press is using and gathering feedback
  - On-going
- Hiring process assigned to OPs
  - Low priority?

Working Group Updates

Business Planning wg:business-planning
- bl: New opportunities emerged since COVID. Need to talk tomorrow about them
- last meeting: Mostly around COVID site next steps. Strategic direction
- Thing about how we imagine services as a story
  - Consistent view of that with infra-wg
Finance wg:finance
- bl: We didn’t have a meeting. yj, bl have a lot going on
- yj to continue reimbursment process and COVID. Next meeting when done
Governance wg:governance
- dc: We haven’t met since last major update two weeks
- AGM still main area, not much progress
Infrastructure wg:infrastructure
- el: Booked at BBB stuff (logs)
- In a few weeks the domain is expiring (yj on renewals)
- Auto-renew issues, maybe
Operations wg:operations
- dc: Piece of COVID response that is ops task (policies, obiligation as employers)
  - Collect EI
  - We can address it
  - Look for a better version of the hackpad
- bl: Focus on COVID
  - Three agreements (client/employee agreements)

Project Updates

StART
- Paused
- As intended
Qm
- dc uv met with Michael (primer of data trust)
- this week: Primer on personal data storage (Friday)
- last week: Proto-brand with a doc
  - First step on a more established brand (gh issue)
Aether
- Aether Community is needed
  - OSS version (because it’s needed)
- Discussion about k8s spin-up portal
  - Spawned from clients services spawning services
  - Web portal thing (can get help from Burak)
Starling (effected from COVID-19)
- Haymarket overlap
- Heard back from Jonathan
- Launch pushed back
  - Longform article in a journal, or publication
  - “Hypha took this code to do this”
  - Agreed to approve Hypha mentions with us before media mentions
  - Tuesday meeting
    - bl: Looking for volunteers to join call (can be in chat)
  - Overlap with Haymarket reachout
COVID-19 Solidarity
- ES translation
- Held 1st open call
  - uv: Last call went well
  - 2 new people attended (3 in total)
  - Prof from Universtity of Arizona
  - Individual looking for livestream her performance
  - Last one tomorrow
  - bl: Anyone else we want to invite to the call?
- biz-wg discussion (general direction we want to go in)

Discussions

Website Redesign (Garry)
- New repo: https://github.com/hyphacoop/hypha.coop-redesign
- Mon/Tues working session
- Demo
- Pixelated dithering aesthetic
- RGB green
- Check-in on brand/word mark
  - 3 treatments
    - black
    - accent colour
    - accent with white text
- Imagery
- How can we get a polished unfinishedness to it
- “Accidental” moments to make it feel more dynamic vibe, than overly sensible placement of elements
- Blog? Mailing list? Project page? (not in initial iteration, but keeping in mind)
- Deploy by end of week
- Feedback (go-around):
  - bl: like it! shock on speed on turnaround! assets etc.. to share (social media, media distribution)? favicon?
    - dc: agreed assets: updated wordmark (non-final), look and feel page
    - gi: favicon, from noun need attribution
  - el: think it looks good
  - uv (in chat): a reaction-diffusion/cellular automaton experiment that i was playing with a few weeks ago which is very similar in style to the dithering of pixels. you’ll need to drag cursor on the red to start the reaction http://patterns.fromlater.com.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com/
    - like it! treatments! dithering! great!
    - like purple vs. black on title
    - does the name need to be more prominent? Top only mention
    - other than that, awesome!
  - gi: how to make this moment more dynamic
  - dc: has a poster with this purple and green, purple in title more on-brand (prefer over black)
  - gi: not sure how much time is needed to get this into responsive on remote
    - dc: A more bare mobile version?
    - gi: Hide images, sensible stacking, etc. for a “good enough” version
- #todo: bl review before end of Thursday
- #todo: el help with deploy on Friday
OKR check-in (Dawn)
- process lives in the Handbook
- WG to review OKRs Spreadsheet
- 2 questions:
  - As a WG, How have you integrated OKRs in your process?
  - How you (WG) feel it’s going? Status on achieving them?
- uv (biz-wg): owners of okrs during this pass two quarters?
  - brand stuff in handbook, website, getting to goals
  - outreach strat, social media role, COVI external work (1:1 ons, doing okay)
  - Had some response from COVI
  - overall: Not doing so far considering what we wanted to get done
- bl (fin-wg): align work see where time targets to hit
  - Pretty on track
  - Using the process no feedback yet
- dc (gov-wg): we tried looking at every meeting, not frequent checking
  - on track, but a lot of objective
  - everything coming in at the same time
- el (inf-wg): Haven’t look at it
  - Doing stuff on our own. Finding time on other things
  - WG meetings as a way of aligning (maybe async as well)
  - Infra could start assigning to selves
  - Gov/Finance in similar situation
  - bl: Support for adopting process?
    - el: okay
    - bl joining next infra meeting
- dc (ops-wg): Still meeting with governance
  - Less looser
  - Spending time doing other things
  - Core ops not represented in OKRs
  - Similar to infra/gov
- Invitation: to make time next week review update status, modify, OKRs
  - Each working group to give an update
  - Next week: Presentation from each working group OKRs
  - No expection for radical changes (tweaks to working, updating)
  - bl: Goal is able to understand where things are at at-a-glance

Process Checkout

parked

Action Items for Cultivator

Migrate items with #todo:person to task board
Publish meeting notes as open access, or publicly indexed with restricted access
Reset meeting pad for next meeting

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