🌻:Congress And The Board/Minutes/2024-07-28

Cyberia Computer Club Regular Congress on July 28, 2024

Original notes: pad.riseup.net/p/cyberia-congress-20240728-keep-keep

This meeting was held over text chat in Mumble, rather than by voice due to lack of audio transcription.

Agenda Items

• Explore alternatives for congressional meetings

• Matrix possibly being a barrier for entry for new folks joining the group

• Demo Day

• New name for Uncongress

Attendance

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

Active Voting Members (need 7 for quorum)

• alena (present)

• alexi (present)

• breadzepplin (absent)

  • 2 unexcused absences

• carbide_flux (present)

• fack (absent)

• jessica (present)

• johnnie (absent)

  • 2 unexcused absences

• jonathan (present)

• karlexceed (present)

• queerposting (present)

• reese (present)

• sanine (present)

• starless (excused absence)

• vvesley (absent)

  • 2 unexcused absences

• zico (absent)

Currently nonvoting presents

• 0xlambda

• mara

• ivy

• tertu

Active Branch Updates

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

services (Jesse) (Forest)

• Jesse and Forest are absent

• No updates

meta (Scott)

• Scott not present

• No updates

games (Johnnie)

• Johnnie not present

• Alena: Interest in Fall LAN party at L0

outreach (Starless)

• Starless not present

• Jonathan:

  • I have a couple friends who would like to hold a listening session for our community members

  • Ideally, we drag someone my friend Maren from MAAN www.maanmn.org/ to hang out vibe with us and listen to us about what out mostly Neuroqueer community and community members need and what the community means to all of us.

  • Knowing maren that probably will involve sitting on the floor, drinking tea and Vibin while she listens to our stories

• alexi:

  • Pretty big disconnect between Pride and the cookout this year

  • Not very many people showed up

• tertu: "I personally had no idea when the cookout was happening"

• mara: Might be useful to have email or sms messaging for people to sign up for with info for joining matrix

• sanine

  • thinking about organizing a Cyberia Game Jam

rituals and regalia (vvesley)

• vvesley not present

• queerposting:

  • working on new shiny stickers

  • Ordering through Speedy Slaps

Treasurer Updates

• Previous balance $5,412.30

• Current balance: $5,423.11

• $3.50 in interest payments

• No other credits or debits

Secretary Updates

• Starless and Alena recorded L0 space rules since last Congress

  • wiki.cyberia.club/hypha/cyberia_hq/rules

  • wiki.cyberia.club/hypha/cyberia_hq/housekeeping

• Uncongress next week on Sunday August 4th: 12pm to 2pm

  • Please send alena a message if you want to be part of a voice/video call about L0 rules/discussion

Agenda Item Discussions

Explore alternatives for congressional meetings

• queerposting:

  • "congress meeting accessibility I'd characterize the current format of voice without captions as unacceptable long-term, as well as the interim format we're currently using. If solely text-based, at minumum we need typing indicators and reacts I'd say. If voice based, I think it's a hard requirement that we offer some kind of server-side transcription of spoken conversation."

  • Using text chat: matrix would likely be better. But, if we decide to go this route then we may want to strengthen procedure to ensure congress runs smoothly in this format

• Jessica: worth looking into an implementation of whisper.cpp

• carbide_flux: keyboard.futo.org/ https:gitlab.futo.org/keyboard/voice-input-models

• reese: i will look into an accurate open-source audio transcription pipeline as soon as i can. i'd much prefer to have a reliable service for this purpose in place over something like Mixtape.

Motion passed to:
Have Alena present alternative options by next congress and have an interim transcription option ready for at least the next meeting

Matrix possibly being a barrier for entry for new folks joining the group

• tertu: "Website feels kind of disorganized and outdated"

• Ideas for improvement:

  • Welcome page on the website to point new members to matrix setup, etc.

  • Forest: briding L0 general chat as a room on the Discord bridge

  • streamline the matrix sign up process via email or something

• Nothing voted on

Demo Day

• sanine: "i can do demo day organization"

Motion passed that "Demo day is cool"

New name for Uncongress

• leave it to un-congress to decide.

• Ideas

• ungress?

• alena: I suggest "L0 Improvement Day"