2025.08.27 - GOAT Community Organizing Call

Open Ag Technology Community Building
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GOAT Quarterly Community Call

Date: August 27, 2025
Time: 11am PT, 2pm ET
Meeting Link: (See GOAT Calendar)
Calendar: Calendar – GOAT

Agenda

  1. Round table updates

  2. GOAT Booth funding?

  3. Community Organizer Hiring Committee - reserve for last 30 minutes, Jesus will join a little late.

  4. Discussion: Contractable versus Volunteer tasks -

    1. When is it appropriate for a task to be a paid one?

    2. When is it appropriate for a person to be paid versus for them to volunteer?

  5. Continue inventory of roles and tasks

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Contribute to GOAT Booth @ Pasa Feb 2026 / CANVAS Nov 2025 (aka trisocieties)
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Attendees

@julietnpn @jesustorres @gbathree @mridoutt

Notes

Met a new GOAT today! woohoo! Reminder that all newcomers are welcome to pop in on any public call, say “hi”, and get acquainted. Generally speaking this call is for organizing the community, so it is very logistics based, and not the ideal place for getting acquainted because we try to stay tight on agenda. :slight_smile: The quarterly community call has space for newcomer introductions. However, if the community all is too far away or you can’t make it, you’re welcome to pop-in to the organizing call for a quick orientation at anytime.

GOAT Booth:

  • Greg is proposing the booth to attend CANVAS and Pasa
  • We will create a GOAT booth project to crowd fund these efforts.
  • There is money left over from previous GOAT booth projects (i.e., CAFF 2024 Small Farm Tech Expo), and this money does not need to be reserved for CAFF events. Next call we will decide how to poll the community for approval to use these remaining funds for GOAT generally, and the GOAT booth specifically.

Community Organizer Hiring:

  • The job description will go through a final internal review and then will be posted on the forum for community review before posting for recruitment.
  • Anticipated start date was set to Nov 1.
  • We’re still looking for volunteers to help with application review and interviews. If you’d like to support this effort please reach out to @jesustorres or respond to this post!

Community organizing Tasks:

  • We did not make it to this, and so will add it to next week’s agenda.
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