2021-05-19 Hypha Worker Co-op: All Hands

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

Agenda

Item	Time (min)
Personal Checkins	5
Announcements	5
Working Group Updates	15
Project Updates	15
Discussions	20

Notes

Personal Checkins

pc: macbook air 2019 bought after last holiday
bl: SWAPFEST2021. 2013 mac 8gb ram ready to come to TO for ram upgrade. fan always on
uv: 1 week old macbook air, new M1 chip, lowest specs of current lineup, blazingly fast. splitsec frustration purchase. old computer started working again
gi: rpi k8s cluster. x240, macbook pro 13 inch 2018?, custom built 2018 gaming rig i5 [rattled off some specs]
dc: SUPE OLD x220. was old then got older. new in 2013. 16gb ram upgraaaade. new powerhousing. can’t do things at same time. no gdocs. naturally has two. will need to reswap mem. lab laptop. windows-specific. using it for the softawre. dell xps313. ultralite. batt fails. immediately loses all power for 50%. xbuntu. deciding on x220 os. maybe archlinux.
yj: workhorse: MSI dc63 24gb ram, 2 years old spawns random loose screws. VMs, needs more RAM
el: thinkpad p15 16gb ram DDR4

Announcements

Paid sick days for COVID-related time offs (e.g., vaccines), let dc know operations@hypha.coop
Patcon personal announcement: stepping away, becoming an inactive member in 2-3 weeks

Working Group Updates

Business Planning wg:business-planning
- first convo about structuring the new initiatives
- hiring summer student for bizdev / marketing strategy
- hello hypha calls, with new coops mostly (6-ish)
- dc+pc did interview with MPP Chris Glover, tech/innovation critic in ONgov
Finance wg:finance
- no call for awhile, async coord and just doing bare minimum: paid, rodica quarter, invoicing
- one outstanding invoice
  - yj to follow up on two around meetcoop
- thinking about changing acct from recco on uv, especially with new clients
Governance wg:governance
- paid for articles, so maybe moving fwd?
- quarterly strat calls with support from udt?
- July-Sept fiscal year ends June 30, start to think about AGM timing?
Infrastructure wg:infrastructure
- OVH upgrade (below) TOP
- looking toward inititatives, getting higher resolution, looking for guidance on framework
- immediate: deprecate jitsi
Operations wg:operations
- hiring, getting ready for hiring
- how to support ppl moving into inactive membership
- June 30th aim to be done transition for CMC

Project Updates

bentway (gi)
- call with valdis, macy, rob, showed the garden
- wrote a narrative
- some updates to garden, then finishing
aether (bl)
- p2p + hosted universes -> coherent thing. “build community in one place”
- launch end-of-month / first week of june
- booking half-hour demos with ppl (event organizers, online communities, etc)
  - #todo:all referrals pls
traffmobility (yj)
- going well, some calls, still active but not a lot of movement
- todos for website, but they are re-evaluating
  - #todo yj to followup
- need to figure out if ongoing or terminal project
Qm (dc)
- cont’d with fractional consulting
- impromptu session, able to jump in
- June, intense work, revise update privacy policy + tos
- subcontract hiring possible
dpress (uv/bl)
- mai + udit - compost magazine thread
- ben - distributed press calls, meeting with sutty, hypercore (paul f), matters (guo), flancia, china people
  - social schemas for cross protocol sharing
- direct outreach, not open call for issue 2
  - expecting to finalize list by next week
meet.coop (yj)
- take round, getting paid!!! working on amsterdam work (femprocomuns) looks like it might be longer term.
  - funding application being made. more than 100 members right now. 4000 hours of talk time in the last (?) weeks. GBP$20,000 ARR.
  - if we can get to 100k gbp we’ll be sustainable. this grant is 40k
  - maybe go for a debt financing round after the grant?
cosmos (uv)
- steep learning curve. technically complex. lots of reading.
- upcoming calls (first post-kickoff)
- invited to COSMOS biweekly meetings (at least 1 pers/wk)
- #todo:finance how to hold ATOM legally
  - def by mid-June: to meaningfully participate in their governance, need ATOM
  - #todo bl finance to contact new acct
OC (pc)
- in flux, pc to continute to onboard two collectives: ttc and flancia
- call in 1st week of June to determine next steps for OC
  - bl + pc + dc

Discussions

Update to inbounds from voicmails / hello@ [update from dc]
- members@ will not receive hello@ emails
- this will go to “Hello Hypha” initiative (part of past Biz Dev)
Need to upgrade current OVH server
- Had for 1 year, renewal coming up, $89/mth for same
- Running out of ram
- Path:
  - add ram, need to buy new server with more ram and migrate everything
  - increase to monthly cost: $101/mth +20mth
  - need 1 mth to migrate, will double bill for that period
  - June project to migrate
Intern hiring process update (going, hoping for interviews maybe tomorrow / next week?)
- publicized everything on job boards
- uv dc on interview committee
- able to interview fairly soon, going well!
- start date after interview, maybe by June
- 10 weeks, 16 hours a week
- how can we frame self-identifying as members of equity-seeking groups
Convo abt. small constracts (contractors) and upcoming capacity (udit and I chatted quick abt this)
- uv: COSMOS feels hardest to bring on new ppl
  - DSF we should try to structure to bring on new ppl
  - uv: strat is not for ppl to be immediately 100% valuable. even shaving 30% of time is good enough.
- bl:
  - first offer to members of needs, uv + dc +1 (internal posting)
- pc: how are taking a cut?
  - uv: all paid projects

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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