2020-04-18 Our Networks Planning Call

📅 Date: Sat, Apr 18, 2020 @ 12:00-13:30 ET
🙋 Participation: meet.jit.si/ournetworks and calendar
📓 Notes: https://hackmd.io/thUKLLPMQSan3mRo2d6bGA?edit 👪 Attendance:

Agenda

Previous Business
- dc: update bio
- dc: update budget
- mauve: update/first draft sponsorship package
- dc: move milestones into readme/gh issue
Standing Business
- Run through "In Progress"
  - More design needs: update social media
  - Advertising the CFP
    - #todo new collector issue!
- Run through "Calendar Deadlines"
Other Business
- Budget/Fundraising
- Audience/attendance
- CFP
- Design Jam

OAC grant "ready" but not submitted
- #todo: still need CVs
- #todo: sarah to add dc (maybe have a call /cowork)
JHI grant submitted
- Emphasis on reflection, documentation
- gi: Commission content for a program
  - e.g., essay, poster, images
Budget: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1uonus1OS54kM7fZaHSbM-cWYFLdOMpVsoMe_YjY-1S0/edit#gid=0
We're imagining a span from $8500 - $20,000
- $20,000 is all we hope for version
- $8,500 is lean, but could still be cut
Re-thinking the tickets, map them to core costs
- directly pass on costs
- registration fee model
  - pwyc
  - sliding scale
  - free tickets
- sf: local coworking space launched online membership , $5 to join discord
Need to know hard per-person costs by registration launch time
Hearing from grants?
- JHI end-May
- TAC June 1 to find out ?? (projects not begin before)
- OAC mid-June earliest
Things to trim going forward
- Not renew meetup subscription

Worked on:
- Event format a brainstorm moment to identify projects too
- Started new Sponsorship Pipeline doc, with contact info and potential leads, also for us to triage who we contact
Reviewed and made changes to package, amts, language
#todo Mauve to do final cleanup of package
- "coffee break"
- review language
- lock down end of weekend
#todo dc:
- dc to send out to previous sponsors

Reviewed the Design brief
- discussed a shift in website relaunch a week later in May
Jamming on look and feel:
- LIME GREEN
- green grassy virtual space
- dc: something permaculture images, succession
- soil layer diagrams
- forest modelling software
  - {"dynamic spacial interactive landscape"}
- forest inhabitant avatars, drag and drop around the homepage
- kit of parts, can assemble as a place
- unknown type face
  - "90s hacker wear"
- "tree wave"
  - time, duration
  - looping gifs
  - digital applications of that
- time
  - cyclical
  - koan: "what is the shape of a second hand moving"
- the website grows over time
  - each day of Aug 7-9 weekend we layer on more stuff
    - Have trees that get bigger
  - e.g. more tilesets into Mozilla hubs
- changes colour based on the time of day
  - dark at night
  - place you are viewing the website from "based in UTC-X"
  - play with that? offset it?
- events running down side, show every timezone across the side in on times across
- metaflop:
  - typeface that changes over time
  - "build a clock out of a font"
  - variables adjust over time
- Way that people interacting with the site can change it too?
- peoples usage on laptops
  - "messages in our chat today"
  - low power website representations
- "our own CDN with solar powered pis"

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