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+# Cyberia Computer Club Regular Congress on July 28, 2024
+
+Original notes: https://pad.riseup.net/p/cyberia-congress-20240728-keep-keep
+
+## 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 https://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 https://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 https://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
+** https://wiki.cyberia.club/hypha/cyberia_hq/rules
+** https://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: https://keyboard.futo.org/ https://gitlab.futo.org/keyboard/voice-input-models
+* reese: i will try to look into this when i can. in the long run i'd much prefer a less hacky solution over 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"
+* reese:
+** somebody in the discord bridge named samdcbu jokingly suggested officially renaming congress to “Bundestaggles”
+** i don't really like the germanic-sounding-ness but maybe that's just me
+