GOAT Monthly Community Call, 19 July 2023
Date: July 19, 2023
Time: 9am PT, 12pm ET
Meeting Link: Social Co-op GOAT Gatherings room .
Calendar: Calendar – GOAT
Agenda
- GOAT 2024
- Any updates here?
- Proposal: GOAT Conveners
- Should we start an
awesome-goatrepo on the GOAT GitHub?- eg:
awesome-tauri
- eg:
Attendees
- @KerenR
- Lai
- @jgaehring
- @vicsf
- @3wordchant
- @sudokita
- @anna
- @gbathree
- (apologies if I missed anyone! and feel free to add or remove yerselves)
Meeting notes
- Intros etc
- Ankita: GOAT 2024
- Screenshare: “Building a GOAT” document
- Opening discussions with potential funders
- We’re ooking at an ask of roughly $75k USD for the coming year’s conference and other activities in the meantime, particularly funding the organizers’ work
- Short-term funding comes first, primarily for GOAT 2024 and Year 1, but then we can start to look at the longer term, for Years 2 - 5.
- As our 3rd large conference to date, we have have a few main goals in mind:
- Begin with a clear sense of action: What form of governance do we want for GOAT?
- COVID put the brakes on these discussion in the last few days of GOAT 2022
- Can we pick up where we left off then and hit the ground running in 2024?
- Can we come away with a completed “manifesto” like we had hoped for in 2022?
- At the same time, create more space for “doing” (eg, hackathons, but cooler)
- Make sure people can take away action items or projects already underway by the end of the conference
- Being more inclusive in both the conference and the organizers’ ranks
- Find an alternative to Omega in Rhinebeck, somewhere easier to reach by transit
- Begin with a clear sense of action: What form of governance do we want for GOAT?
- Will post full notes on the forum after this call
- Questions?
- Keren (chat): is there a set weekend/month for the next convening?
- Kita: nope, omega gave us their “off-season” dates to pick from, but ideally we’d be able to do this in the winter when it’s the off-season for agriculture.
- Jamie: Conveners proposal
- Lai: How to get plugged into happenings and projects within GOAT?
- Website fixes and improvements:
- Chat room is still referred to as Riot, better to say Matrix
- Link to the Matrix room (in the header) doesn’t work and needs updating
- Can someone start a forum post to identify other potential improvements to site and general outreach/messaging?
- Autonomic has been working on Cool Farm Tool and looking to extend that work
- issues with connectivity for a lot of mobile farm software
- difficulty getting these tools into people’s hands
- possibly due to users’ apprehensions around vendor lock-in
- also just connecting devs/farms/researchers/etc with each other and with the right folks who can help
- Website fixes and improvements:
- Jamie: I can put together the
awesome-goatrepo at least as a starter towards that last point - Greg: In response to Lai’s points
- interop is a known need, but it’s hard and slow to get set up unless you have the resources of a John Deere
- Our Sci is working with Ag Gateway (in the US at least) to do a lot of interop with their soil testing standards, they adopted MODUS for their tests
- the other thing that can be contributed to is to have more general API’s that aren’t as specific to one user scenario
- working with farmOS so far as a more general standard
- Keren: updates on her current research in Argentina for PhD.
- getting lay of the land of who’s working on ag-tech down there, as well as the general political economy for agriculture
- initially met with conventional soy farmers working a lot for expert
- meeting more now w/ agroecology practitioners
- difficulty keeping a project going in a time of so much political and economic uncertainty
- there are some state-funded researchers thinking very critically about tech and innovative solutions, their pros and cons
- eg: no-/lo-till has been packaged w/ heavy industrial ag production, not necessarily the intended effects when introduced years ago
Public Chat
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[12:12] Lai (they/she): are we taking minutes?
[12:12] Jamie (he/him): oh, I am
[12:12] Jamie (he/him): oh even better
[12:12] Jamie (he/him): also realize I shared this in the wrong chat:
2023.07.19 - Community Call Third Wednesday of Each Month @ 9 am Pacific Time
[12:17] Keren Reichler: is there a set weekend/month for the next convening?
[12:18] Keren Reichler: cool, thanks!
[12:21] Jamie (he/him): Proposal: GOAT Conveners
[12:26] Vic S-F (they/them): It seems small when you’re doing it but it’s huge in aggregate! thanks for being the champion for that piece
[12:28] Jamie (he/him): and as an example, this is “awesome-tauri”:
GitHub - tauri-apps/awesome-tauri: 🚀 Awesome Tauri Apps, Plugins and Resources
[12:29] Ankita: Resilient Food & Tech Library – Informatics for Community Food Resilience
[12:30] Jamie (he/him): I like the idea of knowing projects that people are workin on who are active in GOAT
[12:31] Jamie (he/him): and sorry to put you on the spot!
[12:31] Ankita: I’ll have to jump off right now friends - I had a halftime conflict today! I’ll post on goatforum for goat2024 sooooooon. Hope you all have an awesome day! See you on the internet!
[12:32] Calix~they|them~Autonomic: https://goatech.org/
[12:41] Jamie (he/him): Greg’s org (Vic too):
https://www.our-sci.net/
[12:44] Jamie (he/him): Open Collective - Make your community sustainable. Collect and spend money transparently.
[12:46] Keren Reichler: do goats herd cats?
[12:46] Jamie (he/him): or vice versa?
[12:49] Keren Reichler: sure happy to
[12:49] Jamie (he/him): Main artifact from GOAT coop discussions earlier this year:
Miro | Online Whiteboard for Visual Collaboration
Coop forum discussion:
What do we want to cooperate on?
[12:51] Lai (they/she): there’s a big tech co-op scene in Argentina https://facttic.org.ar/
[12:51] Lai (they/she): we’ve met a few folks from that federation IRL
[12:54] Keren Reichler: thank you!
[12:54] Lai (they/she): https://patio.coop/
[12:54] greg: That’s super cool
[12:55] Keren Reichler: what’s his last name?
[12:56] Jamie (he/him): Octavio
[12:56] Vic S-F (they/them): I’m going to tell him you called him a super nerd 
[12:59] Jamie (he/him): Keren, would you be wiling to “plant that seed” on the forum?
[12:59] Keren Reichler: yes please! thank you!!
[12:59] Keren Reichler: sure jaime
[12:59] Keren Reichler: thank you all! super helpful 
(thanks for putting me on the spot Jaime :))
[12:59] Lai (they/she): if anyone wants to contact us
[13:00] Lai (they/she): or on Matrix