# 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

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## 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