Meeting agenda

• Review notes, action items from last meeting
• Wiki content (we need more content)
• Other priorities (e.g., organizational, outreach, tech, etc.)
• Any issues/concerns/feedback?
• Schedule next call

In attendance

• Arijuniper
• Lizzy213
• Cairn
• Kill/switch
• Mike

Minutes

• Try to involve experts/scientists to provide guidance and advice about collapse and timeline (AMAs)
• Using the gen public room more often might help us attract and retain people in Riot/Matrix
• Many people in the collapse groups, many projects that might see benefit being part of a broader network, such as CN… we can help you grow these projects grow and gain attention, more audience, more contributors
• User profile template: https://wiki.collapsenetwork.org/user/template
• Page that outlines different article types and a skeleton for each type
• Stick with wiki profile page for now, keep it public. Move to private profiles over time.
• Try to feature requested topics on the wiki home page
• Maybe we pick a theme to focus on for a month, sub-topic fo a week, etc.
• How about copying content from Wikipedia?
  • Content is maybe too academic
• Help people find content outside Wikipedia
• Profiles, requested topics featured on the home page maybe with themese and specific sub-topics, more call outs for content to the CN discussion groups, and subreddit
• Creating good example content
• Framing contributions as what do you want to learn? Then learn it by reading and watching videos, etc. and post what you learned as an article.
• Get some level of commitment from people, try to build in some accountability
• Solicit specific topics, are you willing? Please put your name on a topic… take an assignment
• Add milestones. progress bars to homepage
• Visual bars to show progress, gamification
• Collaboration topic, something we all want to work on together
• Head up a group project? Outline smaller items that people can contribute to
  • Growing and finding food, foraging
  • Lizzy will take a shot at subtopics for the growing, finding/foraging topic
  • Mike will work on Covid/pandemic disease and see if there are more relevant subtopics to develop (like supply chain)
• AMA is high priority
  • https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qJmP1gtr7L4iicCbhaT-nYBiu2VQZbeAaXRfaCkljuc/edit
• Priorities…Sync sign up process with first AMA
• We need a designer to build the landing page, but okay to have MVP landing page in the short-term
• Each of us identify 3 people to contact for the AMA
• Contact and try to schedule
• Profile pages, encourage people to create a profile page
• Adding themes and requested topics on home page
• Next call Wed March 4 at 4pm ET, open call in two weeks
  • arijuniper will let us know if she'd like to reschedule time

Action Items

• Take down minutes, transfer to wiki - Mike
• Draft article types, templates - Cairn, JM
• Each reach out to 3 potential AMA candidates - ALL
• Flesh out subtopics for major topics
  • Growing, finding/foraging major topic - Lizzy
  • COVID-19 - Mike
• Move requested (theme, topic, sub-topic) to home page - Kill/Switch

Meeting agenda

• Goals/priorities
• Outreach
• Wiki/content
• Contributor profiles
• Schedule next call (Feb 26 @ 4:00pm EST)

In attendance

• JM
• Cairn
• Kill/switch
• Mike

Minutes

• Scenario planning for different possible futures, timelines of collapse - Mike will document minutes and add to vision/goals page
• Try to involve experts/scientists to provide guidance and advice about collapse and timeline
• Goals/priorities of the network are somewhat vague at this point, but would like to build a global support network with a local element
• With projects that spin out of the network, such as the wiki
• Scenario planning - If this happens, this is what we need to do, but if not, we're okay… e.g., persistence of global internet, communications
• Important to get more people on-board to have critical mass
• What's the reason to participate in the community, can't just be chat
• Continuously updated roadmap… to answer the question “what can I do”? “How can I contribute”?
• Wiki and joining the network are equally important, hard to predict which is more important
• Using the gen public room more often might help us attract and retain people in Riot/Matrix
• Many people in the collapse groups, many projects that might see benefit being part of a broader network, such as CN… we can help you grow these projects grow and gain attention, more audience, more contributors
• We'd want to get agreement from these projects before sharing projects and discussion groups
• Fediverse as an example of a network of projects (https://fediverse.party/)
• Skeleton framework of a content page - JM/JO will develop a draft
• How do we attract more writers?
• Editorial roles with help maintain standards
• Need to encourage people to start writing, whatever you like, whatever you think is appropriate, will improve quality of content over time - Mike will message CN members
• Make it informal, but incentivize quality… maybe as featured content. Promote all-star content.
• Link strongest pages together
• /r/collapseskills wiki as a possibility of content that we might pull into collapsepedia
• Opt-in demographics to assess diversity, diversity and inclusion is important
• Contributor profiles, easy first page for people to create, puts on a human face, human connection
• We have the introductions group
• As a starting point, please create a personal page on the wiki - Mike will encourage CN contributors to create a profile page
• Optional profile template - K/S will develop a draft template
• A suite of hosted services, fediverse, peertube instance, would need financial support to make this happen
• Next meeting Feb 26 at 4:00pm EST

Action items

• JM and Cairn to draft skeleton framework of a content page
• K/S to develop optional profile template
• Mike to encourage CN contributors to create a profile page and contribute content to wiki, writeup minutes, and add to vision/goals page