Meeting Minutes/2021-02-28 Regular Meeting

Mikael showing around two features — wants to ship soon, but doesn’t want to decide on this call (better async on slack or deciding with more focused group of people): Feedback/questions on “experiences feature” - Other gender, follow up with slack link - 25% members of the sites. - People might feel its inconvenient if in one experience-pair there are “mismatching” recommendations Feedback/questions on “i18n feature” - Most people who are on such platform, they expect to use English. - Chagai just wants to see things go live earlier :-) => Let’s decide by the end of next week if these are ready to roll. Mikael wants to hear Noah and Hlib still because they’ve been working on this a lot with us. :-) Overview about situation with WS

Mahria: - In WS since 2016 - Android app was pretty abandoned - Attitudes of board changes, they tried to get more money - Request for proposals to write new apps - I estimated the service costs => 5K - They released new app => changed it to be paid - I wrote them that this isn’t good decision; there are lots of people people who can’t afford. - The community didn’t feel heard in the process. And in something like Warmshowers community “owns” - 1/3 of users interact with the platform - We gave feedback, but never heard back. The way we maintained the app, sometimes we noticed some changes randomly.

   - Communication wasn’t open.
   - Prolly not everyone but we have some.

- Trying to decide on the message to show people who open the app now, because that’s the first time people will hear about this situation.

   - Can you send them push notifications? Perhaps can, but likely not everyone who has app has added that permission since we started asking only recently.
   - Open letter from volunteers WS abandoned?
   - TR to introduce Cyclists circle.

- Gitter; main maintainer Sami(?). Planning to meet Tue 11am with Maria to talk about this. - Main maintainer’s WS account was deleted. :-( They’re waiting for reply from WS. - “Open identify to warm showers” FB group for discussion right now - Running trustroots for WS app only, mobile app-only hospex?

   - Separate instance of TR for this?
   - Same instance (and thus same login) but still separate opt-in into Warmshowers app?
   

- We need something that is quick, something that makes it easy to join. - I don’t want to be authoritative, but I want to give people a way to get here to Trustroots. - Things that cyclists are used to, we should add those. A couple months ago my first impression was that compared to WS, I felt good in small community, and TR felt wider. - Sandboxing was in TRs DNA from the beginning; it could be good feature to add now?

- Cyclists, vs Touring cyclists circle name?

   - Or add a very specific “Warmshowers community” circle?
   - From TR perspective Cyclists might be enough, but it’s fair that touring group might make it easier for Warmshowers folks to join

- Pull data about circles; “many people join many circles” claim