elioqoshi
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5 years ago Thanks for the notes @coderberry!
Give up on discourse maybe? At next sustain meeting, take a poll of what people are using. Cat prefers mailing lists.
I do think that the Discourse has too many categories and it splits the little conversation already there even more. I'd suggest having as many categories as one would have mailing lists ( 2 or 3 maybe together with non-public channels?) and allow people to use Discourse as a mailing list without the user interface.
Justin working with Elio to create boilerplate to do multiple events. Africa + Gitcoin event as well. Will have something early next week.
Yeah, I will discuss details with @jdorfman and work with @anxh3l0 from Ura to create the boilerplate.
Owner or process is needed. Someone interested in community catalyst? Decide after event.
I'd like to contribute in polishing the Discourse instance and find ways to make it more valuable for people.
Google location in Brussels? Space isn’t large enough. It’s a no-go.
I could ask some Mozilla volunteers based in Brussels if they might know of something. I remember the FLOSS Community Metrics Meeting happened in at Hotel ibis Brussels Centre St Catherine. Seems too small for an event similar to the size of Sustain London. http://flosscommunitymetrics.org/
Who do we want to invite knowing what we know now? Based on past events, those we’ve met since. As we discuss bringing in others to help, be mindful of diversity and inclusion. Can we have balance in gender and other regards when we broaden the group.
I do believe we should put in extra efforts to invite people from outside our usual circles. Of course that's easier said than done.
Financial support from GitHub, Google? Google is on board.
I can help with fundraising as well and can manage requesting sponsorship to Mozilla among others. Maybe GitLab too? https://about.gitlab.com/community/sponsorship/
Perform due diligence to make sure we are flying out people that are not a liability.
What's the context behind this concern? Anything which should be handled differently from the past events?
Attendees
Actionable Items
Goals for sustain
Revised Vision & Goals SustainOSS UK 2018 - Google Docs Sustain 2018 postmortem notes Sustain Summit 2018 - Participant Input - Google Docs
Most important topics (from participant input):
Room to fill in documenting (how to fund your projects, etc).
Ideas that came from sustain lacked a place to let them grow with structure. If the past couple of years was an indication, we need to provide more of a structure for projects.
“Bring your sustainability problems” and create teams to workshop them.
If you get to workshop your problem, you commit to a minimum of a blog post. If more, even better. Blog post to appear on the sustainoss website as well.
“Tactical” is better than “Strategic”
Two wave process. 1) Who do we want to invite knowing what we know now? Based on past events, those we’ve met since. 2) when opening up to more, it would ask “Do you have experience to share, skills to contribute or interesting problems to work on?”
Create database of “symptoms” and “solutions”. Create something that is easy to access (maybe Wiki)? Confidentiality must be taken into consideration. Documented evidence of what was discussed.
Template for documentation instead of free notes.
Who do we invite?
Do not create “project pageant” dynamics. Spectrum of criteria for participation will allow us to create a good participant list.
Who do we want to invite knowing what we know now? Based on past events, those we’ve met since.
Ask those invited whom else we should invite. Criteria may include “Do you have experience to share, skills to contribute or interesting problems to work on?”
Individually identify projects that need help with sustainability that provide value to the community as a whole.
Maybe correlate with the projects that will be at FOSDEM.
What do we want to achieve?
How do we stay all connected publicly?
Discourse? It’s difficult to make it part of our flow. We probably need a community catalyst or gardener. Focusing on the “sustainability hub” is not on anyone’s plate. What is the process? Who is driving it? Contributions are appropriately honored. We need a governance model for collecting, building, sharing and using knowledge.
Owner or process is needed. Someone interested in community catalyst? Decide after event.
Give up on discourse maybe? At next sustain meeting, take a poll of what people are using. Cat prefers mailing lists.
Notes
Confirmed date: Jan 30 in Brussels
Justin working on landing page for website. Up with new date.
Justin working with Elio to create boilerplate to do multiple events. Africa + Gitcoin event as well. Will have something early next week.
Sustain Africa (part of OSS Festival in Legos) Sustain Web3 in Denver
Pia sent survey for open source companies / CEOs. Survey has been done.
Ben would like others to go over notes and determine what the conclusions are in order to put them into document.
Google location in Brussels? Space isn’t large enough. It’s a no-go.
As we discuss bringing in others to help, be mindful of diversity and inclusion. Can we have balance in gender and other regards when we broaden the group.
Community Evangelist.
Financial support from GitHub, Google? Google is on board.
Perform due diligence to make sure we are flying out people that are not a liability.