Meeting Minutes/2020-08-17 Regular Meeting

Minutes Date: 2020-08-17 16:00 UTC Facilitator: Martin Present: Martin, Shawn, Nikki, Hlib, Loberto

Agenda (Add your name if adding a talking point, thanks.)

• Hellos and checking in.

• Noah asks to move the meeting to another day/time bc. he has choir rehearsal every monday at 5pm UTC and needs to leave home at ~6:15

  *Martin will set up a Doodle to check time

• The Support team has been working on a guideline document that includes ethical principles of the platform. Everyone is invited to read through the work in progress and add/comment. Link is here: https://codi.kanthaus.online/7P_XQoCoTCqnSfjdHDrFHw?both

• Paula has said she will take the lead on populating/collecting info for team.trustroots.org page

   *Martin will ping Paula for update and clarification on such task.

• Chagai, Martin, Shawn agree that it may be good to show short biographies for the team on the page to present a robust team working on Trustroots currently as part of the public relations.

• Hlib suggests an internal volunteer page for fellow volunteers to get to know each other

     *Loberto has referred Hlib to #ahoyparty Codi for this. It exists but needs to be worked on further. Further development of 
     /teams might be good

• Trustroots Donation page: It needs to be updated seeing as we don't currently accept donations

      *Nikki will explore rearranging and condensing the information on the page. 
      *Should the donation page be renamed possibly? 

• Styleguide for Trustroots: Is there one (Nikki K)

   *Will ping Mikael about it and to explore possibly creating one. 

• Idea: If we do accept donations, they could go to funding a Trustroots hackathon somewhere and support travel expenses for those coming.

• There is momentum in working on the reference based system (Now known as "Experiences") on the slack. For those interested to participate in the conversation and development, look at the #experiencedesign channel. Shawn is working on a blogpost to explain and announce the rollout.

• One idea to promote good reference usage is to have a proper campaign educating people:

    *Start with a good blog post about it, shared on all social media
    *Mention it in our next newsletter
    *Write in the FAQ “References good practices”
    *Write a wiki article about references, why giving a negative reference is not a bad thing
    *Additional topics/questions

• Anarchist Circle: Someone contacted support to offer to update the photo and description.

     *Loberto can help facilitate the request. 

Loberto : There is someone who wants to update the anarchists circles, Loberto may do it.

Pick facilitator for next meeting

Action points and outcomes

• Next Date: August 24th 2020, 16:00 UTC
• Next Facilitator: TBD

• Martin will send out the doodle to explore other times to meet
• Shawn will work on blogpost for rollout of Experiences (Formerly known as references)
• Nikki will contact Mikael about the creation or existence of a styleguide
• Martin will contact Paula about populating the Team page.
• Loberto will help facilitate the Anarchist request to describe what Anarchy is all about on the circle page.