I tried to take notes for the presentations, too, and copied the chat before I left.
TRAC: A FAIR Tech Registry
- Presented by @vicsf w/ Melanie
- TRAC: Tech Registry for Agricultural Conservation
- aka, OpenTEAM’s FAIR Tech Registry project
- Started on USDA / NRCS funding
- thinking about many different users and agreements
- 1st ag proposed in Sep 2024
- have a prototype of the tool now
- link to the documentation pages
- No more NRCS support
- All of NRCS contacts, who previously believed and supported this, are no longer there
- Meridian Institute
- another initial supporter
- now also winding down operations
- prototype built in bubble.io
- don’t have internal buy-in from NRCS anymore to get these things implemented
- Moving from NRCS context to a new TBD context
- Documenting the system
- How to do that by Sep 2025
- communally rooted in order to respond to community needs
- ways to make the registry publicly facing, instead of just internally facing to NRCS
- open to suggestions for how this might be feasible (or contexts to move this to?)
- Demo: Juliet & Vic
- Melanie
- working with a fairly simple survey for now
Float: Funding Lab for Open Agroecological Technologies
- Presented by @anna in collab w/ fellow stewards @samuejao @nathan-raft and Rithikha
- Overview
- intended as a collabathon process
- bringing together a community of needs, then finding ways to address those needs
- give community the power, tools, and funding to decide how best to follow through on addressing
- got started on the first round this past month
- Key points
- experimental, learning what works best
- building on community precedence
- The big “Why?”: “Breaking the vicious cycle”
- enable continued innovation in opposition to systems and cycles that we agree are damaging
- Resource allocation
- exploring established pathways and emerging patterns
- diving a bit deeper into other ideas and ppl out there doing this work
- prev events helped refine some ideas in the past 1+ year
- also more going on and emerging from those events aside from Float, so pls explore those
- Values
- Collaboration
- Openness
- Agroecology
- Play
- Goals
- real-world projects & impact
- support ecosystem & bridge movements
- protocols & patterns
- Hourglass process
- starts at broad community ideation
- funnels down to decision point
- explands to project implementation & support
- Round 0
- Stewards: initial core team of 4 ppl
- Inaugural Committee of 7 ppl
- Phase 1: Survey
- survey the ecosystem
- using Polis decision-making tool
- Phase 2: Ideate
- call for ideas
- based on Polis results
- Hylo
- Phase 3: Proposal
- shared proposals
- community calls
- BOLTS
- Phase 4: Select
- deliberation process w/ Hylo
- looking for strong collective benefit
- Phase 5: Implement
- develop prototypes
- funding rollout
- monthly community updates
- Phase 6: Evaluate
- how it went
- learn from it
- how to build towards future rounds
- Open Collective for this
- Current Status
- finished Polis survey
- reviewing the results to prepare an analysis for launch
- [scatter chart]
- Next steps
- community launch call July 22 @ 10am Pacific Time
- call for ideas in Aug
- Hylo community launch in aug
Chat
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[13:02] Juliet: 2025.07.14 - GOAT Quarterly Community Call
[13:02] Jake R: hiya!
[13:03] Nathan: Hi! New to the call, here as part of the Float project that will be presented 
[13:03] Jamie: Jake, are you jakealope1 on forum? just saw your post
[13:03] Jake R: yep that’s me
[13:04] Dana Perls: Hi This is Dana. New to this call and part of the Float project
[13:05] Jamie: wonderful to see so many dwebbers I haven’t seen in too long!
[13:05] Anna Lynton: Hey!! Anna Lynton. Long time GOAT-er first time Float-er
[13:05] Vic S-F (they/them): Hi I’m Vic, tech coordinator with openteam, Wolfe’s Neck Center, & Our-Sci before that - working with Melanie and others on FAIR tech registry project and can’t wait to hear more about FLOAT!
[13:06] Juliet: 2025.07.14 - GOAT Quarterly Community Call
[13:06] Juliet: Call for Participation in 2025-2026 GOAT Community Stewardship
[13:06] Anna Lynton: So fun to see everyone! Hi Jesus 
[13:06] Jesus Torres: Good day folks
[13:06] Nadia: hi! this is Nadia, also a dwebber trying to connect with goat too
[13:07] asú: hi all! a few of you know me by another name, i’ve transitioned to asú! since dweb 24, super happy to be part of this circle! cheersss
[13:07] ankita: Hi, I’m Ankita, GOATer and prof/researcher. Good to see many familiar faces (and some new ones too!). Was at dweb too!
[13:08] Jamie: I’ll fill out the when2meet, sorry I’ve been abysmal responding to email lately 
[13:08] Juliet: Request for Content for Quaterly Newsletters!
[13:09] Jamie: also drafting a newsletter blurb as we speak
[13:10] ankita: YEYEYEYYE GOAT 2026, please join us: we’d love to pass the baton while continuing to support nextGOAT and GOAT++
[13:13] Jamie: a WhatsApp ___ ? what was the second part of that, Jesus?
[13:13] Jesus Torres: Whatsapp lite
[13:13] Samuel: Such an amazing initiaitve, Jesus!
[13:13] Jesus Torres: thank you!
[13:13] Anna Lynton: Cool!! Is there other ways to support Jesus? Share with those who can benefit from it?
[13:13] Jamie: that’s freakin awesome, Jesus, kudos
[13:14] Samuel: Asú could you tell us a. little more on the project in general
[13:14] Jamie: congrats Nadia! huzzah!
[13:15] Jesus Torres: We’re working on a blurb with more information.
[13:16] Samuel: Let’s go Brazil!!
[13:16] Nadia: uhu!!
[13:17] Jesus Torres: Awesome!
[13:18] Jamie: is anyone recording?
[13:18] Nathan: Perhaps more with Samuel but I am here haha
[13:20] ankita: we’re not recording but i believe there’s running notes floating here
[13:20] Vic S-F (they/them): TRAC - FAIR Tech Registry Documentation
[13:30] ankita: Do you plan on having a community call specifically on the TRAC project as a means to plan for next steps?
I suspect it might be helpful to get a more in-depth walkthrough on the various parts of TRAC (the SOPs, the tool prototype, what NRCS components are vs the genertic components etc.).
Several orgs have tool inventories and analogous processes, and it might be good to identify nextStewards that way.
[13:32] Jamie: so is the selection process one that is repeated for each “context” or deployment you might be exploring (eg, NRCS) from scratch? or is there something like a superset registry that narrows it down? (or am I misunderstanding the prcess entirely?)
[13:34] Jamie: thanks!
[13:34] ankita: ideally, having the generic / master registry available as an open source code base can allow for people to look at this as a reference architecture
[13:36] Samuel: Thanks Vic. Agree that having a Goat dedicated thread would be great
[13:36] Vic S-F (they/them): vspindlerfox @ wolfesneck.org is my new best email to contact me!
[13:36] ankita: Just saying thanks for sharing 
[13:36] Anna Lynton: Thanks Vic!! Exciting to see how this has developed
[13:36] Jamie: (also, as unsolicited design feedback, it’d be cool if you could filter on some kind of rating for “Findable” / “Accessible” / etc, then maybe include non-FAIR tools that don’t check all boxes for comparison, a la alternativeto.net)
[13:36] Vic S-F (they/them): onward & upward 
[13:36] Vic S-F (they/them): Ooh thanks for that Jamie!
[13:38] asú: hey vic, i’m thinking of something similar for our network here, will message you in private to talk more! thank you for your work!
[13:38] Vic S-F (they/them): Amazing, would love to talk more asú!
[13:44] Samuel: Float [/convenings]
[13:44] Samuel: Float [/about]
[13:47] Samuel: We are going to open it up today for one last round ifanyone did not have a chance to participate
[13:47] Samuel: Float [/polis]
[13:47] asú: thank youuuu i managed to miss it so far!
[13:50] Vic S-F (they/them): curious about the single statement on the far right
[13:50] Nathan: 10am PT
[13:50] Nathan: 1pm ET
[13:51] asú: 2pm Brazil
[13:51] Samuel: Awesome overview Anna!
[13:51] Nathan: July 221
[13:51] Nathan: Whoops! July 22!
[13:51] Jesus Torres: Great work!
[13:53] Jamie: Vic, it’d be interesting to see a TRAC assessment of Float’s tools (Hylo, Polis, OC, etc), in case you’re gettin bored over there
[13:53] Juliet: love this Jamie
[13:53] Anna Lynton: ^ ha! Yes!!
[13:55] Anna Lynton: We’ll share the details of the community launch call in the forum. You can also drop your email or send a note ([email protected]) to make sure you get an invite
[13:56] asú: i gotta run, folks. happy to see all and will get into polis later today! beijos
[13:57] Melanie Kammerer: over the longer term, where does the resource pool come from?
[14:00] Jamie: loved all this! thanks all presenters and great to see you ALL!!
[14:00] Nathan: Community call July 22 at 1pm ET/10am PT! We will post a link in the forum
[14:00] Jake R: What a great first call to be a part of! I’m excited to keep track of the forum and what else happens involving y’all!
[14:00] Jesus Torres: Thank you all!
[14:00] Nathan: [email protected]
[14:00] Nadia: thanks guys! it has been awesome!!
[14:00] ankita: Thank you for herding us Goat-Juliet!
[14:00] Nathan: congrats nadia!
[14:00] Anna Lynton: Thank you!!!
[14:01] Samuel: Float [/polis]
