🌻:Congress And The Board/Minutes/2024-01-28

Cyberia Computer Club Regular Congress on January 28, 2024

Original notes: pad.riseup.net/p/cyberia-congress-20240128-keep

Agenda Items

• Elections

• Question on separation of L0 and Cyberia

• Pride and Peoples' Pride

Attendance

@see wiki.cyberia.club/hypha/congress_and_the_board/membership

Active Voting Members (need 8 for quorum)

• alena (present)

• alexi (absent)

• carbide_flux (absent)

• chris (absent)

• fack (present)

• jesse (absent)

• Jessica (present)

• johnnie (present)

• jonathan (present)

• karlexceed (present)

• queerposting (present)

• reese (present)

• sanine (present)

• scott H (absent)

  • 2 unexcused absences

• starless (present)

• vvesley (present)

• zico (excused absence)

• Bread (present)

Currently nonvoting presents

• electron

• weg

• strongthany

No new members were nominated or voted in.

Active Branch Updates

@see git.cyberia.club/cyberia/congress-active-branches

Services (Jesse)

• Seeking update from anyone

• Fack: Matrix performance improvements coming soon

Meta (Scott)

Johnnie: Let's take advantage of our elected representative to help with our legal questions

games (Johnnie)

• 2 games bashes

  • Fireball island - horrifying to watch

  • Second one petered out a bit

• Will continue efforts there

outreach (Starless)

• Pride vendor registration is open

• No major outreach things beyond that

• Might consider some things with Layer Zero

• Pride is the main focus

• Cyberia on bluesky?

• Demo day in a week or so! Spread the word!

  • Feb 4th at 11am @ L0 (calendar.layerze.ro/event/cyberia-demo-day)

rituals and regalia (vvesley)

Truths coming up

hardware liberation (Kurt)

• Was dissolved at 7/30/2023 congress

• "It's okay to have dead branches"

• i think it would be good to spend some time sorting through old electronics at LZ and deciding what we can repurpose and what should be recycled / brought to free geek -reese

  • Let's bring that into matrix and organize

    • Pending a leader: ?

Treasurer Updates

• Previous balance $5,406.91

• Only changes have been interest payments

• Current balance: $5,412.30

• Need to clarify pending withdrawals with forest

Secretary Updates

Website is up-to-date now

Agenda Item Discussions

Elections

Johnnie motions to proceed with agenda, seconded by queerposting

• motion passes by voice vote

Positions

• President wiki.cyberia.club/hypha/congress_and_the_board/officers/president

  • Johnnie motions to abdicate presidential role to reese, seconded by bread

    • Motion passes by majority text vote

    • reese: "feel free to msg me on matrix with what you would like to see from me as prez"

• Secretary wiki.cyberia.club/hypha/congress_and_the_board/officers/secretary

  • Candidates

    • Queerposting (incumbent, not seeking re-election)

    • fack

    • alena

  • Alena elected in 6/3 strawpoll vote strawpoll.com/xVg7jE44Knr

• Treasurer wiki.cyberia.club/hypha/congress_and_the_board/officers/treasurer

  • Candidates

    • Sanine (incumbent)

  • Elected unopposed

Question on separation of L0 and Cyberia

• Motion to have the meta branch discuss and propose an actionable agenda item about conjoining L0 and Cyberia offically or formalizing the relationship between them, seconded by queerposting

  • Motion passes by voice vote

• This will be discussed further in matrix.to/#/!zosUJgjUEFNVpvPYeX:cyberia.club (#meta)

Pride and Peoples' Pride

• There was a short discussion on whether Cyberia should have a booth at Peoples' Pride in addition to or instead of our usual booth at corpo Pride.

• No items to vote on, this will be discussed further outside of congress.

Sanine motioned to end congress, seconded by fack. The motion passed by voice/text vote.