Trustroots Meeting

Date: 2020-07-13 16:00 UTC
Facilitator: Loberto
Present: Chagai, Loberto, Mariano, Martin A., Michael, Mikael, Paula, Shawn

Agenda

Hellos and checkin.
Do we want to record?

   * nope, we asked at the call. :-) 
   * Needs concensus for each call
   * Let's keep good notes
   * Chagai brings up Jitsi example where they record videos, publish on youtube and since it's so accessible, it's easier for new folks to join in since they see the energy.

we haven't really changed time for a few weeks.. should we? /Loberto

   * sticking to 16 UTC for now so that everyone can join
   * earlier time is more inclusive for south-america

Last weeks points:

   *     More discussion is needed to see the desire to record meeting
       *     We'll keep talking about it in Slack
   * Shawn will look into seeing how to promote events with the most active users, maybe writing info for a Newsletter
       * Currently working on it, ish.. 
       * Mikael to ping about something he might be able to help it. :-) 
       * Use social media to reach out 
       * Get data on active users
   * Chagai will implement a test bridge between Slack and one other platform
       * Chagai is working on it.
       * jitsi instance first up.
       * No chat in jitsi :-( We can use Slack!
   * VA Team is gathering info to share around: regular calls, volunteers map, and those outside of slack.
       * Feeling a bit like forward progress is slow but step by step moving forward nevertheless!
   * If you use Codi, keep an eye out for a Best Practices handout
       * pending progress
   * Efforts are going towards Documentation, so start documenting things done, changes made, etc
       * Martin A. will look into creating a Guide for Guides.
   * If things worth noting happen, let's share them in the Weekly meeting (add them to the Agenda)
   * Maybe we should make a call for more Devs in the next Newsletter
       * No space in next newsletter 
       * Blast short blurb to social media for call for developers /Mikael
       * Could be good to keep "call for volunteers" in each newsletter. Just food for thought!

Do we want to add a review of last week's action points as a standard meeting point? Keeping up with what has been decided and so on. /Martin A.

   * Sandboxing the time to 10mins or so might be good?
   * Focusing on things that weren't done yet or especially those that are blocked would be good
   * Take notes on Codi first whenever possible and then it's faster to go through it.

This already happened so we can skip....Chagai wanted to talk about creating a jitsi/riot instance at .trustroots.org. Either briefly here or organising a specific meeting if needed.
Next up going out: newsletter/blog-posts/tribes-rename? /Mikael

   * Need help with anything? Need help with actually sending the newsletter. 
   * Mikael can learn this up and will make it a grou-learning session/record screen.
   * NDA needed for the access to email addresses when sending the newsletter.

Audit on tools and resources we have an where is it documented?/Paula

   * Until now knowledge just gets passed from person to person; documenting some tools and routines is of course welcome!
   * All docs we have are at https://team.trustroots.org (to update content)
   * Martin has a list of non-techie tools, somewhere :)

Team volunteer documentation

   * There's a beginning at https://team.trustroots.org
   * Many roles there don't provide enough context for starting

Using project management tool like ClickUp? /Paula

   * A tool for non-techies :-)
   * Unlimited users for free
   * Team tested Github a bit for non-tech use
   * Loberto could be test person for testing out Github for project management
   * Mikael recoomends just to experiment with tools — it's better if these are free for starters, but in longer term we can even pay reasonable prices for some tools (like we do for development/servers). We're doing similar experimentation with different call tools right now — each week trying something new. :-)
   * Martin A. will be able to have a proper look at GitHub and how to adapt it to non-tech people (workflow etc.) in the next week or two.

Slack Best Pracices according to Loberto =)

   * Martin L. would like public permission to police about threads and using right channels for right topics (reminded about #random)
   * Everyone is cool with this :-)

Unique Safehaven status for hosters during Quarantine? /Mariano

   * good for PR and chance to promote for media? /Chagai
   * Technically reduntant work?
   * Bringing this up via social media might be easiest we can do — connecting folks in groups? easiest small thing we can do
   * As an example Airbnb has similar iniatitive for refugees from two years ago
   * We might little bit late on this — efforts put on social media and connecting with Argentina nomads could be good?
   * there are existing projects that work in this area, let's connect with them and spread their awareness via social media

- There's a call for new volunteers Thu/Fri?

   - Should we reach out for recent new volunteers that have been a bit active but then dropped out? /Martin
   - Reach out to volunteers all the way up to big changes at CouchSurfing

Your talking point here :)
Additional topics/questions
Pick facilitator for next meeting

   * I'm up /Mariano

Action points and outcomes

Next Date: July 20th 2020, **16:00** UTC
Next Facilitator: Mariano
VA team will go through Volunteer instructions, improve on them and create a volunteer guide of sorts.
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