2020-06-08 Hypha Worker Co-op: Infrastructure

Time: 3:30-5:00pm ET
Location: https://link.hypha.coop/calls
Attending: bl, el, yj
Cultivator: el
Notetaker: yj

Agenda

Item	Time (min)
Personal Checkins	5
Announcements	5
Task Board Review	15
Discussions	30
Process Checkout	5

Notes

Personal Checkins

discussing Toronto Mesh <> Cisco plan
- VLAN
- colocate hardware on roof
- install together
- elevator room access
el: how are we feeling about Toronto Mesh?
- lots to do!
- exciting

Announcements

Yasu in Japan using BBB with 7 ppl and it worked
emailed Koumbit re: solidarity program

Task Board Review

Review DONE tasks
Review [priority-★★★] [priority-★★☆] [priority-★☆☆] [priority-none]
- #private/48 - Waiting on BizDev
- #256
  - Data policy done
  - working wiht bbb.coop
  - colaborate on bbb.coop ansible
- #282 - Rebrandly
- #288 - Room Purge
  - notify people
- #private/67 meet.coop
- #175 - passbolt instance
  - bl: do we need to document what passwords exist on there for each group?
    - yj: has personal passwords in there
    - yj: but once the last person leaves a group, we’re sol
    - bl: losing individual password isn’t that big of a deal, we can reset, just need to have some WG level redundancy
    - decision: we won’t document the list of all passwords that exist in passbolt

Discussions

AGM planning
- join https://loomio.hypha.coop/join/group/3FAn4Eqhc9MZ51rigpvTh1g2/
- review agenda https://hackmd.io/USiltMxoT1GC4QCkP9wk1g?edit
  - bl: when is the WG sessions in the calendar? team-building?
  - bl describes membership vs. board of directors
  - bl: “good member” task, add your ideas before Wed -> https://github.com/hyphacoop/handbook/issues/14
- review OKRs
  - we did it last week
- report on activities over the last year (< 10 min prepared summary, a couple slides, or a report)
  - recap what infra did last year, and what we want to do next year
  - last year
    - 22 closed infra issues https://github.com/hyphacoop/organizing/issues?q=is%3Aissue+label%3Awg%3Ainfrastructure+is%3Aclosed
    - yj: deployed a series of tools that allow us to function as a virtual office
      - learned what tools we need
      - documented environment
      - discussed self-hosted vs. cloud
      - set ourselves up to deploy Hypha-specific infra
    - el: started looking into client work
    - bl: started with https://loomio.hypha.coop/g/KvARWad7/working-groups-infrastructure
      - collapsed into a “final” set of tools to actually operate a virtual office https://link.hypha.coop/inventory
      - went a step further, and:
        
        drafted data policy
        
        BBB feedback
        
        offer covid19 infra support
        
        started participating in federated infra spaces (e.g. Meet.coop)
      - have a clearer path for self-hosted vs. cloud, value balances, tech roadmap
  - next year
    - make money (el, yj, bl: +1)
    - yj: move off of borrowed infra (bl: +1)
    - yj: register an AS :D
    - el: work with other coops / value-aligned orgs
    - present our prod env timeline
      - slide showing where our infra is and where they will be in which month
- #todo yj: pull together presentation with help from el
Meet.coop -> https://github.com/hyphacoop/organizing-private/issues/67
- split effort, yj and el mostly in git repos, bl in wiki and forum
- bl: had a call with Dat Community organizer Diego, notes in meeting pad
  - more of these BBB meetings coming in, mostly for Meet.coop as they are events with many ppl
- yj: do you know where I can get someone to host email?
  - maybe we can set up infra for ppl as a service

Process Checkout

Action Items for Cultivator

Migrate items with #todo:person to task board
Publish meeting notes as
- business-planning: open access, or publicly indexed with restricted access
- finance: open access, or publicly indexed with restricted access
- governance: open access, or publicly indexed with restricted access
- infrastructure: open access, or publicly indexed with restricted access
- operations: open access, or publicly indexed with restricted access
Reset meeting pad for next meeting

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