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[09:00] Welcome to Gathering of the Herds: GOAT Meeting Space!Dial in number is (34)932208649.SIP dial in URI is 309817102@sip.de.meet.coop.Confrence PIN is 38900.Dial in support is being piloted. See forums for details.This service is provided by The Online Meeting Co-operative.
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[09:03] Amber: Opportunities with Community Alliance with Family Farmers (CAFF): see post
Open Source in Academia - notes from Greg
GOAT 2024, including venue nomination form 2
Conferences and Events at which GOATs may be interested in attending, presenting, or demoing!
Community Needs Assessment
[09:03] Amber: Agenda^
[09:03] Juliet (she/her): 2023.09.20. Community Call Third Wednesday of Each Month @ 9 am Pacific Time
[09:06] Juliet (she/her): GOAT Potential Venues - Google Sheets
[09:08] Elizabeth Vaughan, CA: Is budget a factor?
[09:09] Elizabeth Vaughan, CA: I have ideas for Western regional GOAT! But larger venues to hold a lot of people can be expensive…Omega was pretty magical
[09:09] Ankita: Here’s my budget related to the announcement of potential funding: Budget - Google Sheets
[09:09] Juliet (she/her): GOAT Conferences list - Google Sheets
[09:10] Ankita: this list is amazing
[09:11] Juliet (she/her): https://fira-usa.com/
[09:12] Elizabeth Vaughan, CA: hah “search up!”
[09:12] Juliet (she/her): Community Alliance with Family Farmers Upcoming Events
[09:13] Jamie (he/him): can’t remember the name of the conf that was in Costa Rica in May/June-ish, but that’s annual and we have friends there I think, if it’s not on the list
[09:15] Ankita: Might we organize a goat-hack to submit projects to the small farm innovation challenge?
[09:17] Jamie (he/him): RightsCon! that was the one in CR
[09:22] Ankita: this is the form: Software Application, 2023-24 Innovation Challenge
[09:22] Vic S-F (they/them): Right! Nat was there. Thanks for adding.
[09:23] Elizabeth Vaughan, CA: Small Farm Innovation Challenge 2024
[09:27] Paul W: Previously we talked about having GOAT + CAFF calls to introduce our communities… maybe this could be a topic of one of those calls!
[09:27] Paul W: +1
[09:36] Elizabeth Vaughan, CA: Thanks for sharing that Greg! Really helpful for me to hear how you all can see this rolling out…
[09:37] Vic S-F (they/them): +1
[09:38] Jamie (he/him): maybe offer a regular Tech Support Free Clinic for farmers if any GOATs would want to volunteer? (I would)
[09:38] Jamie (he/him): …as a means of outreach
[09:38] Juliet (she/her): This might be a good time for Amber to discuss her community needs assessment report.
[09:39] Ankita: I’ve offered free tech support but folks don’t turn up ebcuase they don’t think their tools/process is something that can be fixed by tech
[09:39] Amber: Vik hosts a weekly call, maybe that can be combined with Jamies idea?
[09:39] Ankita: *is something they think cannot be fixed by tech. my bad lol
[09:40] Vic S-F (they/them): Re: the process Nat has been developing for aggregating feedback, scoping & voting is documented a bit in this Hub meeting miro: Miro | Online Whiteboard for Visual Collaboration
[09:41] Jamie (he/him): oh, Vic, is that in the GOAT calendar?
[09:41] Vic S-F (they/them): Important Links & Resources - OpenTEAM Hub Technical Resources
[09:42] Vic S-F (they/them): Yep just recently got added!
[09:42] Vic S-F (they/them): (thanks Juliet)
[09:42] Elizabeth Vaughan, CA: Thank you everyone! This information and idea generation is really helpful
[09:42] Ankita: Herding GOATS in 2024 - short proposal - Google Docs
[09:42] Ankita: Budget - Google Sheets
[09:44] Jamie (he/him): <3 that, Vic, def gonna share that link w/ folks in SKywoman, there are semi-regular asks for support on their Discourse (spreadsheet help, software recommendations, etc)
[09:44] Vic S-F (they/them): Oh that would be awesome, thanks
[09:47] Anna Lynton (openTEAM): Whoo 
[09:47] Jamie (he/him): +1 Kita, sponsorship tiers tied to specific things like travel sponsorship is a good way to get mid-level $‘s for stuff like that
[09:49] Jamie (he/him): (like farmOS was able to sponsor one attendee last time out of our OpenCollective, based on community consensus)
[09:56] Juliet (she/her): Yea, like at least half of my work time for about six weeks was "free’ for GOAT, but not free for the people who pay me
[09:57] Elizabeth Vaughan, CA: It may be because I’m use to CA numbers for our events but food budget seems too low. We use the GSA fed. rates for identifying how much money per person per day.
[09:59] Elizabeth Vaughan, CA: yeah the stipends for attendance are huge! And paid organizers/coordinators. Very much agree
[10:00] Jamie (he/him): +1000000 for whole people!! <3
[10:00] Ankita: I’m sorry for going long Greg!
[10:00] Paul W: This is great! Appreciate your wok on this Ankita!