Meeting Minutes/2020-01-13

Trustroots Meeting

• Date: 2020-01-13 17:00 UTC+1
• Facilitator: Dario
• Participants: Noah, Nick, Dario, Michal

Agenda

hackweek

• dudle mentions 2/3 weeks, nick's feeling was 1 week + weekends on either side
  • noah: idea was to have one week for sure, then possibly stay longer
• nick is organizing the hackweek with kanthaus
  • reserved 11th to 19th of april in the kanthaus calendar
• next step in organizing:
  • decide on the date at the next meeting (also based on mikael's availability), so that we can send it out to interested people soon enough

Shadow ban feature

• should we do it? vs only suspending offending members.
  • not as a one-for-all solution, only for specific cases
  • restrict to cases where we can't help us otherwise, that would threat the community
  • only shadow-ban if several safety team members agree to do that (as we do with suspending as well, anyway)
  • question: why have both suspend and shadow-ban? answer: most transparency for each specific case
• what should we take care of?
  • no messages actually go out
  • profile hidden on map
  • direct profile link doesnt show up
  • messages from others won’t reach them
  • hide FB / social media links of other people
  • hide emails/links/phone numbers everywhere in other people's profiles
  • they'd still see other people's profiles and hosting offers. :-( If we suspend them, they wouldn't.
• Communicating in rules/TOS that this is happening (?); how much details we want to give away about security features (both at site vs in code)?
  • it's in the code! we should put it in the tos
  • maybe mention that we have moderation tools without saying clearly that it's shadow banning
• who will take care of it?
  • we should have it soon
  • is Mikael volunteering to do that? if not, let the others know. nick might also interested in implementing

what is the state of references feature? (nick)

• 80% code done for listing references? https://github.com/Trustroots/trustroots/pull/918
• michal implemented it over a year ago (creating references works, is in master branch, but hidden)
• michal stopped a year ago. reasons:
  • a lot of discussion, the goal was not clear, e.g. free-text vs. positive/negative rating
  • lack of ui (we generally don't have anyone for design besides mikael)
• next steps:
  • michal will make screenshots of the current implementation
  • first discuss and settle on clear goals, before starting implementation again (michal might continue doing it, but is also ok with someone else taking over)
  • let's discuss in existing issue https://github.com/Trustroots/trustroots/issues/718

Related to references feature — thoughts on balance between feature development vs framework?

• nick and michal: making develeoper's life easier might lead to more feature development in the future
• mikael can comment on that in the next meeting

status report of survey (noah):

• started to phrase some questions for the survey
• plan to get into details in the next 1.5 weeks
• will use the tool crowdsignal

codebase walkthrough

• noah and dario are interested in some guidance where to start contributing to tr code
• nick offers to walk them through the code with a voice call in the next weeks

Next meeting

• Next Date: 2020-01-27 18:00 UTC+1
• Next Facilitator: Noah

Agenda

• Mobile apps state
  • Android; works
  • iOS; can now be re-submitted, Mikael to own.
  • Plans in future?