2025.10.13 GOAT Community Call

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GOAT Quarterly Community Call

Date: October 13, 2025
Time: 10am PT, 1pm ET
Meeting Link: Social Co-op GOAT Gatherings room .
Calendar: Calendar – GOAT

Agenda

1. Welcome (5 minutes)
   • introductions of newcomers
   • ongoing call for participation,
   • request for Newsletter content
   • Q&A
2. Community Announcements (5-10 minutes)
   • Hiring Effort
3. Community Speaker(s) - TBD (20 minutes)
4. Topic Deep Dive (40 minutes)

Topic Deep Dive Poll

We allocate at least 20 minutes of each community call to an unstructured discussion on a topic chosen by the community. Please recommend topics by editing this post (its a wiki). We’ll vote during the call on Monday. Do not vote before then because your vote will be cleared.

Voting: We know its hard to choose one, so you can vote on up to two preferred topics for this quarter’s community call.

Which topic do you want to deep dive on this quarter?

• Fail Share
• Map Visualization Tools
• Making Data Valuable to Markets
• Books we’re reading
• Bridging Language To and From Tech
• Robotics Platforms for Small Farms
• Other - I put my proposed topic in a comment below.

Volunteer to Present!

If you’re interested in presenting about your work or research we’re happy to give you a 10-15 minute slot on the agenda. We can accommodate up to two presentations each meeting. First come first serve! Sign up by replying below AND adding your presentation to the agenda above (this post is a wiki).

Attendees

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Announcements and Updates

• LandPKS Soil ID goes Global! Uses Harmonized World Soil Database.
  • Healing Ukraine’s Soils: LandPKS Supports Agricultural Recovery Through International Collaboration: Translated into Ukraine for this collaboration
• If anybody is going to Mozilla Festival in Spain next month, or would like something discussed or represented, contact Nat Irwin @nirwin
• Mariette was at Climate Week in NYC, turns out a few other GOATs were there too!
• Julie SP formerly a National Economist with NRCS, joined us and is excited to see what GOAT is up to.
• Jesus requested volunteers to participate in the last round of interviews for the community organizers. Looking for one or two people to provide a new perspective beyond the folks who participated in the first round interviews. Contact @jesustorres if you’re available at the end of this week!

Topic Deep Dive

We discussed Bridging Language from Tech to Ag, originally an unconference session at GOAT 2024. Below are screenshots of our discussion. We really zero-ed in on the issues surrounding learning when experience fear, including feeling like an outsider, and how there is a lot of that when it comes to discussion of complex topics like decentralized web, in the farming communities and beyond.

@Mariette in particular has experience teaching computing and information technology concepts to non-technologists, and @Courtney and @paul121 shared their experiences trying to connect with farmers for product testing. @serviopalacios has discussed the idea of putting on a web series focusing on technical content, and I think creating a webinar on this topic, possibly as an intro to the technical web series, could be really powerful.