# DigLife General Meeting: Wednesday, 3 April 2019 ### 16:00 UTC — [click here for your timezone](https://everytimezone.com/s/6d5992df)  _Join Digital Life Collective General Meeting at [https://zoom.us/j/2085799929] Video recording: https://youtu.be/CNsGn1KFc5k One tap mobile +3238080455,,2085799929# Belgium +3225884188,,2085799929# Belgium_ _Dial by your location +32 3 808 0455 Belgium +32 2 588 4188 Belgium +1 720 707 2699 US +1 646 558 8656 US (New York) +1 647 558 0588 Canada +65 3165 1065 Singapore +65 3158 7288 Singapore Meeting ID: 208 579 9929 Find your local number: https://zoom.us/u/adAIfct149_ ### :video_camera: Recording {%youtube CNsGn1KFc5k %} ### :ghost: Participants **Chair**: Graham **Facilitation & note-taking**: SteveT **Recording**: Jim **Members**: Christina Bowen, Roy Brooks, Gary Coulter, Mike Duwe, Sophia Gallagher, John Grant, Colin Kilburn, Michael Linton, Jerry Michalski, Karin Miller (at very beginning), Graham Mitchell, Les Moore, Lauren Nignon, John Philpin, Eric Rangell, Philip Sheldrake, Joachim Stroh, Jim Whitescarver, Kaliya Young ### :soccer: Meeting Protocol We are using a new tool called "TalkTime" to make sure everyone can contribute fairly and the speaking time is evenly balanced (if you do not see TalkTime on the left side, [please click on this link](https://talktime.diglife.coop/diglife)). When you’re not speaking, please keep on mute to minimize background noise. If you’re asked to wrap up by the Chair/ Facilitator, please do. :warning: **If you would like to speak, please click on the **_Raise Hand_** button and wait to be called upon, then unmute yourself.** ### :white_check_mark: Meeting Agenda - [x] Welcome from Chair (Graham) - [x] Check-in (All, 1min each or skip) - [x] _what keeps you going these days? what drew you here?_ - [x] Member Update (Graham, 5mins) - [x] CiviCRM (Member Relationship Mgt) - [x] Key dates in 2019: membership renewals, board meetings, other GMs scheduled for this year - [x] How to become a [DigLife Steward](https://notepad.diglife.coop/wHxm1DatTeGYmLHNQVy4_w#) - [x] Website redesign process has started - [x] Finance Update (Philip, 5mins) - [x] Bookkeeping / Cash on Hand - [x] Public Engagements Update (Roy) - [x] Calendar & event preview? - [x] Website development in Ghost/WP/html5 - [x] Social media activities / ambassadors - [x] Technology Update (Joachim, 5mins) - [x] Roughly half of all members are in new chat space... - [x] Very quick tour [Diglife Portal](https://diglife.coop) and [Migration Plan](https://docs.google.com/document/d/17kEx8D2Awtnfl7OfLa7iisPeINqDgpWtX-nNQfKnIIM/edit) (Joachim) - [x] Projects Update (30 mins) - [x] Social Ledger & CaaS (Joachim, Graham) - [x] Skills mapping & Skills Survey (Sophia) - [x] [Interpersonal data](https://akasha.org/blog/2019/04/01/ssimeetup-webinar) (Philip) - [x] Mapping (Christina) - [x] Open Learning Commons (Sophia & Eric) - [x] [Climb DAT Mountain]( https://notepad.diglife.coop/s/H1GZqzgO4) (Eric) - [x] AOB - Any Other Business - [x] Close & Check-out (10mins) - [x] _what do you need?, what’s confusing?_ ### :memo: Meeting Notes Please update this section during the meeting; - [ ] Over 200 members, cash positive with assets covering liabilities. Cash on hand £6,642.84. Bank statement posted to the Stewards channel as always. - [ ] Renewal planned for end of April/beginning of May. $10 per year. Should encourage everyone to bring in two or three friends. - [ ] Upcoming general meetings: 22 May, 24 July, 25 Sep, 27 Nov (if not Thanksgiving). [Calendar]( https://calendar.google.com/calendar/b/1?cid=NmZraWd0dTl2Y3FqdHY5Ym5mZDIzbHZxc2tAZ3JvdXAuY2FsZW5kYXIuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbQ). - [ ] Stewards handle operations and help the Digital Life Collective to continue to exist (requires 1-3 hours a week). Best way to get involved is to join the Friday Steward calls. - [ ] Public engagement team are working on the new role of a DigLife Ambassador for people who want to promote the team externally. - [ ] Roy is working on the website front end. As CaaS comes together as a product/service this will influence the design of the web experience. Having some issues with Ghost as a CMS- great for blogging. Not so much for a site front-end; looked at Wordpress, but some issues there as well re tech load and, again, access for easy blogging and challenges integrating other services being used here - CodiMD eg; reviewing HTML5 templates to see if they may provide a solution. Doing a bit more posting on Twitter, but this is intermittent. Use #share@TechWeTrust in Twitter or #share in Mattermost to share DigLife-related posts so we can publish. Also crosspost opportunities. Join call on Friday to get involved and find out more re web & needs. - [ ] Joachim quickly introduced TalkTime and confirmed that Roy had given good update on web migration plan. Then gave quick tour of DigLife Portal (still under construction, but much available to explore). - [ ] Social Ledger - looks at interactions of members rather than financial transactions. [CaaS Platform doc](https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1EHGGz0KgJw4pDAtp-_DGA5HEPzv1otPdnuOHTLzuqdE/edit), [DL Platform II doc](https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1ytGsr620J-wWfNUgCEfYd2fKX0plUXIaCjHYpLvluXs/edit). Can see interactive skills map on portal by clicking on second yellow button down on the right (show skills) here: https://diglife.coop/#/ - [ ] Philip explained some of the partners who we are hoping to work with on adoption of the CaaS tools. Philip and Kaliya will connect offline to discuss ooping in the wirleine team. Les is watching progress with DigLife CaaS and has a community that may find it very useful - he'll follow up with Philip. - [ ] Sophia started development of a skills map in the [winter](https://kumu.io/DigLife/network-coordination#winter-2018). Aim of this was to connect demand with relevant skills (and time). Was looking to do a Spring version of the map, but waiting on having a solution to make node updating more easy (e.g. tying it into profile on Mattermost). - [ ] Mike raised the topic of AIs and use in resume analysis and skills matching. Jim and Joachim talked about looking at APIs and bots that may provide some 'AI' functionality. - [ ] Philip talked about personal and interpersonal data from work he is doing at Akasha. [Link](https://akasha.org/blog/2019/04/01/ssimeetup-webinar) posted in agenda above. We're looking for connections, co-operators, collaborators, etc. - [ ] Mapping: core team forming a cooperative business and will share partnership to keep diglife map projects rolling forward. See existing Collecive maps here: https://kumu.io/DigLife/ecosystem-directory - [ ] Sophia on Open Learning Commons. A community and learning space for self-directed learners. Super-early, experimental phase. eg. Robert Best recently assembled a small group on Augmented Cognition. - [ ] Eric is using Taiga to manage and progress the _Climb DAT mountain_ project. Looking to encourage adoption by teachers for collaboration with students. Emphasised the cacheing of the sites so that the student need not be online when accessing the site. They can work remotely and re-sync when they come back to class. [Click here for more information](https://notepad.diglife.coop/s/rk9Lx9JSN). Call to action — connect us to teachers who would be interested in developing storyboards to suit their needs. - [ ] Jim loves the potential for off-grid applications in particular. ### Zoom Chat 12:03:25 From Philip Sheldrake : https://talktime.diglife.coop/diglife 12:03:26 From Graham Mitchell : https://talktime.diglife.coop/diglife 12:03:52 From Philip Sheldrake : We’re in here: https://talktime.diglife.coop/diglife … click the two-column icon at the top of the doc to enter edit mode 12:05:22 From christina bowen : Hi! Sorry I am late 12:06:21 From Kaliya : Re: open space and making it work. Just get good facilitators who follow the principles and laws of opens space. 12:06:47 From christina bowen : hi Mike! 12:10:03 From Mike Duwe : Hi Christina 12:11:14 From Kaliya : I am working with a project that may be relevant here - Http://www.wireline.io 12:12:57 From Philip Sheldrake : ^^^ heh, just met Lucas Geiger of Wireline in Detroit weekend before last 12:13:39 From Kaliya : Well that’s cool. 12:14:04 From christina bowen : Looking forward to hearing more about that Kaliya 12:15:23 From Joachim Stroh : For those not on Talk Time, here's the link again.. https://talktime.diglife.coop/diglife 12:18:43 From Jerry Michalski : sorry to be late 12:18:49 From Sophia Gallagher : hi jerry! 12:26:42 From Philip Sheldrake : https://calendar.google.com/calendar/b/1?cid=NmZraWd0dTl2Y3FqdHY5Ym5mZDIzbHZxc2tAZ3JvdXAuY2FsZW5kYXIuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbQ 12:29:42 From Roy : Thanks Christina for NB 'Ambassador' 12:34:50 From Jerry Michalski : buy bitcoin! ha. 12:38:41 From John Philpin : Just to say that I have heard Joachim’s name for as long as I have been involved with DigLife - but this is the first time I have actually gotten sight of him … #MustGetOutMore 12:39:13 From Jerry Michalski : he’s actually a computer-generated avatar. there is no real Joachim. very lifelike, no? 12:39:16 From christina bowen : 12:39:33 From christina bowen : He’s got at least 25 clones to do as much as he does 12:39:47 From Jerry Michalski : yes! but software’s cheap to replicate… 12:41:06 From christina bowen : I’d love to both see the skills, and then have the connections based on shared team channels.. 12:41:28 From christina bowen : @Sophia^ 12:49:42 From Kaliya : Maybe we should be talking to wireline too - they want to build a mesh network of services. 12:49:44 From Kaliya : mmm… 12:50:35 From christina bowen : yes 12:50:45 From Philip Sheldrake : Love to loop in the wireline team Kaliya. Complementary for sure! 12:51:09 From Kaliya : MMm…. ok lets talk offline. 12:51:30 From John Philpin : what was the link joachim showed us with the diglife skills network map 12:51:52 From christina bowen : It’s one of the yellow buttons in the portal 12:52:11 From Steve Taylor : I think I have also put the links in the notes... 12:52:13 From John Grant : wireline.io looks very interesting 12:52:41 From christina bowen : +1 12:52:42 From Jerry Michalski : they are. I know several humans there 12:54:43 From Sophia Gallagher : Here is the Winter Network Coordination map if anyone wants to check it out: https://kumu.io/DigLife/network-coordination#winter-2018 12:56:47 From Jerry Michalski : love Jim’s robot dog! giant! 12:59:57 From Roy : https://notepad.diglife.coop/F50o1f7ZQF2dCS7MMopr6g?view 13:00:42 From Mike Duwe : sounds great John: mikeduwe@eprion.com 13:02:22 From Eric Rangell : I can talk briefly about Robert’s topic 13:02:33 From Gary Coulter : do i have to create an account on Codi to create a document? 13:02:39 From christina bowen : lovely. Sophia can too. 13:03:03 From Eric Rangell : OK, Start with Sophia, then I’ll fill in afterwards 13:03:34 From Joachim Stroh : For those not on Talk Time, here's the link again.. https://talktime.diglife.coop/diglife 13:03:42 From Joachim Stroh : @gary yes if you have a Cloudron account - go here: https://notepad.diglife.coop 13:03:46 From Steve Taylor : Can anyone else take notes? I need to drop for another appointment.... 13:04:06 From christina bowen : hopping in, Steve 13:04:47 From Steve Taylor : Thanks! 13:05:02 From Philip Sheldrake : link here too https://akasha.org/blog/2019/04/01/ssimeetup-webinar 13:05:36 From Philip Sheldrake : me to Steve. laterz 13:07:26 From John Philpin : sorry team - my time is up - informative as always … thankyou 13:11:11 From Kaliya : I’m confused. I clicked not eh Climb DAT mountain link and it wants me to login to a thing 13:12:39 From christina bowen : https://notepad.diglife.coop/s/rk9Lx9JSN 13:13:16 From Jerry Michalski : DAT 13:13:35 From Philip Sheldrake : Love “Climb DAT mountain” … it has great potential in the self-sovereign sense. Nice one Eric!! 13:15:28 From christina bowen : Colin, if you want to have a 15-30 min orientation call, feel free to ping me in our member chat 13:16:15 From Kaliya : Ok Wireline is talking to DAT we really need to figure out some sort of mutual briefing to connect dots. 13:16:22 From christina bowen : Yes! 13:16:42 From christina bowen : the dat commcomm calls might be a good way to start that? 13:16:57 From Eric Rangell : Yes - the topics are technical but can connect people 13:16:57 From Kaliya : mmm…i was thinking between us and wireline 13:17:17 From christina bowen : Any of our weekly calls would be great 13:17:38 From Eric Rangell : maybe Code for Science and Society can be a bridge to Wireline? 13:17:45 From Kaliya : its more like a technical briefing between a small group of tech people and wireline leadership. 13:17:49 From Kaliya : also we will be at IIW together 13:17:52 From christina bowen : Kaliya is working with wireline 13:18:02 From Kaliya : maybe that is best. Christina can talk with Rich there. 13:18:09 From christina bowen : yes. Wed tech call would be great 13:19:57 From Kaliya : 13:23:18 From Colin Kilburn : Thanks All ... my handle on mattermost is gesso 13:23:35 From christina bowen : 13:35:18 From Kaliya : My book came out yesterday! 13:35:27 From Philip Sheldrake : Link Kaliya? 13:35:42 From Kaliya : https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07Q3TXLDP 13:35:43 From Philip Sheldrake : Chair, may I suggest we schedule a session on AI 13:35:49 From christina bowen : YES! 13:35:49 From Kaliya : now you can all figure out SSI 13:36:05 From christina bowen : Congrats K! 13:36:07 From Sophia Gallagher : Congrats Kaliya! 13:36:08 From Philip Sheldrake : I have to go in 90 seconds, fyi. 13:36:34 From Kaliya : we wrote it for C-Level executives so its good 13:36:40 From Philip Sheldrake : PLEASE CHECK THE MINUTES TO MAKE SURE YOUR CONTRIBUTIONS ARE WELL NOTED. THANK YOU. 13:37:07 From Kaliya : ++++ Christina 13:37:35 From Mike Duwe : thank you Christina ### AOB / closing round - [ ] Mike D — this is amazing :-) Personally concerned by AI. The work we're doing is valuable. There has to be a way to scale this! - [ ] Les — super-excited, chomping at the bit. Very grateful to Christina for the time she has invested to onboard him. The offer here is tremendous for all of us who care about ourselves and the planet. - [ ] Kaliya — making connections. - [ ] Colin — Is diving in and is/was editing this. Looking forward to meeting new people and helping to develop Better Tools. - [ ] Jerry — 2nd the big-up for Christina and Sophia - [ ] Lauren — so impressed by everything happening. Offers graphic design skills - [ ] Roy — thanks for all volunteering. 'Conversational Commons' - [ ] Eric — I found the skills map interesting, need to get that live - [ ] John G — on the 'threat' of AI in recruitment, John actually can't wait to disintermediate the recruiters. Everyone is going to have to adapt, and humans will have to specialise in what humans do best e.g. empathy. Mentioned the reputation economy. - [ ] Michael — we have a cluster of creative chaos, which is confusing in a nice way - [ ] Gary — the rate of change is difficult to keep up with. - [ ] Sophia — really wonderful to join a call of twenty members. All of this is made possible by the member recruitment and onboarding, and we need to expand this team, spread the load. - [ ] Philip — add complexity, as Gregory Bateson prescribed. Keep growing our diversity. Beware homegenous tech teams setting out to "solve" problems. They are a danger to society. (On that note, Christina pointed everyone to our colleague [Gideon Rosenblatt's work](https://www.the-vital-edge.com/).) - [ ] Roy — conversational commons, a lovely phrase that Joachim has introduced - [ ] Joachim — get involved. Fill out your skillsets to feed into our own social graph. - [ ] Jim — eager to make this wonderful mix of people as effective as possible. - [ ] Christina — Ahead of the social ledger being fully functional, please use the existing _Stewards_ channel, to provide a weekly ops update. Just short, sharp and sweet. Also, use _Announcements_ or _Help Desk_ in main chat as needed if you have a project you are getting rolling. ### :clapper: Actions & Decisions Please record any actions and/or decisions from the meeting; attach names & dates and check off items completed, if possible. - [ ] Schedule session on #AI (in that chat channel, main DigLife chat) - [ ] - [ ] :::warning ###### tags: `meeting` `gm` ###### authors: `joachim` `graham` `roy` `sophia` `christina` `philip` :::