Eco Hacker Farm Monthly Meeting

Date 10th January 2020 20:30 - 21:30

Abbreviation used in this document: EHF, PMS

Aimee, Anton, Franz

• Aimee: anxious about meeting regarding doocracy

• Anton: Splendid!

• Franz: demotivated about how slow the process of doing something that is easy is

• consultation services to people who asked for it - 3 projects not yet started
• 2 good media interviews
• have stickers, people liked them
• made new connections at events we presented ourselves to
• don't have immediate real money problems
• CCC Camp 19 + Congress
• First AirB&B booking

• fixing the nextcloud issue
• making more money
• offer hosting for nextcloud
• evaluating what is effective and what is not
  • creating process of doing that
• improve methods to rise motviation
• improve powerplant engagement and onboarding of new developers
  • if there is funding it would be easier to move forward with powerplant
  • Consider using alternatives to powerplant?
  • Franz does not want to be involved in powerplant anymore
• define criteria for failed projects
• Allocate time to spend on EHF projects
  • more low hanging fruits

• take on more projects than we can handle

• These are documented in the outreach page on the wiki

• why?
  • positive
    • we provide guidance to people who want to start their own projects
    • people see us as open to collaborate more ie a collective rather than individual project
    • EHF projects are portable, can be used for multiple projects
    • It leaves the door open for more locations and groups to join in without being on site
    • If Kuckucksmuehle stops existing the EHF name still can continue as all the projects relating to it are not bound to a location
    • accounts are easier to separate allowing for funding to be made available to other projects if needed and people to donate to different projects as they wish - Has this been done, or is there a risk of this happening?
  • negative
    • confusing - singular name multiple of local projects - The name EHF implies a single location
    • There are not any other projects related, just the Mill
    • The EHF logo is way better
    • There is nothing EHF provides that the mill could not do operating as EHF
    • EHF is not location-dependant, the mill can move and still be EHF
    • there is no reason for now and soonish why somebody should adopt the “brand”
    • nobody wanted money ever from us even if we offer it .. also we selling it with there is not much money
    • it makes more sense to join specific
  • umbrella gets removed - agreed by all attendants
  • why should I join: point 1 now reads connect and expand a network of communities…
• relating number of members or local projects over time? - No
• why should you join? - already listed on the wiki
• what are failure characteristics? - no active members

TODO: email the community to ask for feedback, what we did right, what we can do better…

- How often should we meet?

• Monthly - publish agenda 3 days before, send email reminder, send reminder on irc

• FOSDEM
• 37C3
• Emergent Berlin

• Metanook? - Aimee maybe

• Franz paid money for a new logo to be designed, once there are some logos to choose from it will be voted on before changing anything, we dont need a meeting for a decision a simple signal convo will suffice

• https://hackerspace.design/
  • why?
    • increases motivation on single tasks
    • we don't need agreement for everything
    • agreement for infrastructure/habitability/big changes consent
      • what are big changes? define this
      • anything costing more than €20?

example of where this could work:

• can be a model for projects, we can create a link to this from one of our wiki pages

1. Inclusive Decision Making Process

example of where this could work:

• can be a model for projects, we can create a link to this from one of our wiki pages

• RL are still waiting to transfer sensitive information from gdrive to nextcloud - can we provide a timeframe from when this will be possible?
• ongoing says Franz, hopefully this weekend

1. an index page with links for relevant pages?

• more thought needed on this - how it should look like and what it should include