2024.02.21 Monthly Community Call

Notes:

  • Fiscal sponsor update: Met with CJ Moya from New MExcio Community Capitol them a few days ago. OC is not intuitive so he helped them get setup on OC and explained how/why to use it. CJ is setting up Wise, need to move all money out of OC and switching fiscal sponsors and moving the money over to the other fiscal sponsor.
  • Funding is from 11th Hour
  • Would be good to get a high-level overview, walkthrough, process as a forum post so we have it for future reference
  1. March 1st West Coast GOAT
  • March 1 in Madera, CA
  • want to make space for non-technical people to contribute to open-source spaces
  • Amber is coordinating GOAT happy hour

They used the 2nd GOAT booth (we have 2 now!). OFN and farmOS were popular this year. Table cloth is key!
Community Health Liason model - prototype this model for Producer Community Liason?

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  1. GOAT Zine ideas - Kita, Liz, Vic, river
    Liz - I’ve been thinking about coming up with some farm hack zines, and have some ideas, but haven’t done any development yet or know specifically the topics I’d want to initially focus on.
    river - illustration
  2. Farm Hack - Liz was hired to revitalize farm hack recently, has a mechanical engineering background - working on farmhack moderation of what exists, fix website - Anybody have drupal experience lol??
    Focus in future on specific, targeted workshops - more details, more implementation, more documentation for replicability
  3. Hiring - Need for mechanism & spaces for onboarding, supporting new hire
    Paul: Focusing on someone who is best for planning the conference (most experience, etc) might be my suggestion to prioritize and dig into during interviews.
    Ad hoc board?
    Needs assessment
    Jamie - I think some kind of accountability mechanism from our end, like rotate at least one person to be on-call for a given span of time (2 wks, 1mo, etc), or something very different, but to reinforce that structure
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