Eco Hacker Farm Monthly Meeting

Date 27th March 2019 20:30 - 21:30

Abbreviation used in this document: EHF, PMS

Aimee, Franz…

Discussion:

• (re-)move the ideals out of EHF into Kum and create EHF to a network of sustainable technology orientated agricultural projects
  • new ideals?
    • sustainable
    • tech friendly
    • open source and open data
    • permaculture ethics
    • inclusive community
  • EHF is a network of sustainable and inclusive communities that are tech friendly, adopt open source and open data principles and embrace permaculture ethics.
  • rewording to this above to make it more general
  • also rewording from “agree to our ideals” to “share our ideals”

• updated outreach to include open food network
• Explain clearly why we are doing this
  • We want more ecohackerfarms or similar projects around the world to thrive - done
• Make a nice graphic to explain how projects are connected - done
• Outlining the advantages of a network
  • Shared expertise - done
  • Software - pms - done
  • A share of the donations - done
  • Support/advice from people who have done it before - done

• UI write from petteri
• prototype fund application send (includes Secret and Franz )
• Work on new release ongoing
  • Data migration from pp and wikipedia
  • Dockerrization still on going

• No work on this - on hold

• Nextcloud as an opensource replacement to gdrive
  • anton tests it out and gives us feedback
• Cash register system suitable for small shop - opensource - ongoing

Find projects that use ecohackerfarm as network/umbrella

• Explain clearly how to set up an ecohackerfarm
  • Draw a blueprint
• creating value for projects to use ecohackerfarm?
  • Outlining how much or how little a community would have to do to adopt the label
• Outlining the advantages of a network
  • Joined resources for paid jobs - when we set up a coop

Action point: Explain clearly on the wiki: How to set up an Eco Hacker Farm project (online and onsite separate), this should be a blueprint ie step by step general instructions on how to go about it. Perhaps a process map here would be appropriate.

Go over outstanding Action Points from the last membership/data management meeting:

• Create Form to put data in and encrypts with public key from EHF and sends it to EHF Server -#1651 & #1652

• Action point: Setup the form so that people can start using it
• Action point: Update the wiki with the link to the form
• Action point: Write a wiki page on the membership page about how we store people’s data.
• Action points: transpose agreed points to the wiki

Research projects:

• Diaspora as fb alternative - in progress
• Mastodon as twitter alternative - in progress
• OS cash register for small shops - in progress
• Replacement for instagram
• Social media manager OS
• Nextcloud as alternative to google-drive
• OS voting system for (small) communities

Action point: call to action to join research projects on each research project page

Monday’s 5pm - 7pm

Action Items should be added under each point

Send your addition / comment / suggestion / feedback in an email to life@ecohackerfarm.org