IRC log of #jetrowebdev for Friday, 2026-03-13

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svayeGood morning jelkner 10:59
jelknerYesterday i did too many things to report! ;-)  Jetro ed planning, dealing with ARTraffic application not working, planning for NoVASEN meeting, planning for DNOVA Council meeting today, etc.  Today i will attend the DNOVA Council meeting. Blocking a bit on knowing who is in for what at Jetro Web development.11:00
jelknerACTION done11:00
fkoikoiGood morning jelkner11:00
thomasboimahOn Wednesday, I guided Gabriel in setting up fkoikoi and jkollie on webschool.sjcompute.org and took my UoPeople graded quiz. Today, I will be visiting the Django documentation since it’s been a few days since I last visited it, while also preparing for my work session with zOnny tomorrow. No blockers.11:00
jelknerGood morning all11:00
thomasboimahACTION done11:00
jelknerdcammue, can we follow up on our conversation from yesterday?11:01
svayeI have not been well and wasn't able to work, but now am better than last week. I learned about the html study group and I am interested in being apart. No blockers11:01
thomasboimahjelkner not to forget congratulations on your nomination for the Virginia Computer11:01
thomasboimahScience Teacher of the Year award.11:01
jelknerThanks thomasboimah, but i have to say that i'm not really big on awards, and it's yet another thing i have to deal with on my already overfull ToDo list11:02
jelkneryesterday was very stressful for me11:02
dcammueyesterday, i tried cloning my repo into my home directory on the weschool server, but had a blocker, and thomasboimah helped this morning. today, i will let to make some clarity on jetroweb members stipend11:02
dcammueACTION done11:02
jelknerwe have an outage at ARTraffic11:02
dcammueyes11:03
dcammuelet11:03
jelknerthe only professional level contract NOVA Web has11:03
dcammuelet11:03
gabriel_jetroGreetings jelkner and everyone, yesterday I continue my she'll study. Today I work on adding svaye  account to the server from thomasboimah guidance day before yesterday. There's no blocker now11:03
dcammuelet's move11:03
gabriel_jetroACTION done 11:03
fkoikoiyesterday i started module 4 of the edube.org, and started the html. css and php sesion that jelkner is teaching and today I plan to complete module 4.11:03
jelknerand it just brings home to me the challenge we face11:03
fkoikoiACTION done11:03
jelknerwe need to become pros11:03
jelknerfairly soon11:03
jelknerwe're moving in the right direction11:03
jelknerbut my fear is we won't get there fast enough to keep from having our project collapse11:04
jelknerdear friends, i really need to ask you at jetro to step up now11:04
jelkneri know i can depend on thomasboimah and dcammue to be there11:05
jelknerbut many of you come and go11:05
jelknerand i never know when11:05
jelknerthat makes it impossible to plan11:05
jelknerand increases my stress11:05
jelknersince i'm always trying to figure out what to do11:05
jelknerand planning is *very* hard when you don't know what the parameters are11:06
jelknerthat's why i want to talk seriously about this stipend11:06
jelkneri'm not sure how to do this11:06
jelknerwe are figuring this out as we go11:06
dcammueokay, jelkner 11:06
dcammuecan i make some clarity here11:06
jelknerplease11:06
dcammueokay11:07
dcammuethanks for the time, for the past time, since we move to jetro office11:07
dcammuewe have been giving stipend to jetro folks for transportation11:08
dcammuethe amount is 100 dollars per month11:08
dcammueso that they can enrich themselves to get to the office 11:09
dcammueit has been three months now. so if you want to do a stipend11:09
dcammuethat could be extract money added to the stipend jetro provides11:10
dcammueACTION done11:10
jelknerdcammue, at this point, i need for you to become more and more a partner11:10
jelkneri don't know what to do11:10
jelkneryou know better than me11:10
jelknersince you are there on the ground11:10
jelknerand i am far away11:11
jelknerwhat i want is:11:11
jelkner1. To know who i can count on to show up regularly and do what they say they will do11:11
jelkner2. To work with the committed Jetro members *as colleagues* to move our project forward11:12
jelknerit is a process, i understand that well11:12
jelknerbut we are under time pressure, and we need to move forward with all deliberate effort11:13
jelknerdcammue, what i desperately need from you is a GnuCash bookkeeping of Jetro Web's business11:13
jelkneri think that now that we have the webschool server set up11:14
jelknerrunning trixie11:14
jelknerwe can use that for our postgresql backends to GnuCash11:14
dcammuesure11:14
jelkneryou should prepare the books for January and February 202611:14
jelknerand you, thomasboimah, and i (and svaye if she is in), should meet once a month to go over the budget and make financial plans11:15
dcammuebut i need to close the book for 202511:15
dcammueand i need you to look at it11:15
jelkneryou need to do that for Liberian government, not for me11:15
dcammuebefore doing that11:15
svayeI am in jelkner 11:15
jelkneri need to plan11:15
jelknerwell, svaye, we are blocking11:16
jelknerSJC is committed to $5K more from the grant it gave you last year11:16
jelknerbut i will argue against sending that until you have your bookkeeping in order11:16
jelknerwe are making great progress11:17
jelknerjkollie is now president of the SJC board11:17
jelknerso she will be directly involved in funding Jetro Web11:17
jelknershe has a lot to learn11:17
jkollie+1 jelkner11:17
jelknerbut if she works hard, a year from now she will really be in a position to lead SJC11:17
jelknerok, so, there are two immediate things we need to determine:11:18
jelkner1. Who is going to participate in the ITD 110 class?11:18
jelkner2. How are we going to keep them accountable?11:18
jelkner2 is so important! I am already super overextended11:19
jelkneri can't afford to put in time planning this class if people don't show11:19
jelkneror do their homework11:19
jelknerso, we need to figure that out11:20
jelknerright now we have jkollie, fkoikoi, dcammue, and svaye says she wants to join11:20
jelknersvaye, can you commit to showing up?11:20
svaye+111:20
jelknerok, dcammue what do we do if people don't show?11:21
jelknerit is easy to say you will be responsible, but it is *much* more challenging to actually do it!11:21
dcammuewithhold the salary for the next month11:21
jelkneri need you all to decide that together11:22
dcammuelike, the stipend11:22
jelknerbut leadership is important, so i will be putting the stress on dear dcammue if y'all don't step up11:22
jelknerbecause i know he will be here11:22
jelknerday after day, week after week11:22
jelknerthat's what we need11:23
jelknerbut sometimes, and it doesn't seem fair, but it is the reality, the blame will fall on him for the failings of others11:23
dcammueif you want to work with people and you are making effort to encourage them, you need to be straight with them11:23
jelknerbecause he is there, and they aren't :-(11:23
dcammuegive them the rubric11:23
jelknerwell, you and i need to figure that out dcammue 11:24
dcammueand if not meet with the rubric, you out or bear the penity11:24
jelknerthe rubric i was thinking about was the payment rubric11:24
jelknerin other words, it is part of your budgeting11:24
jelknerthis is really a great opportunity to learn lessons about how to do this well11:25
jelknerit is an art, not a science11:25
dcammueyes, for example, jkollie, shows two times a week, and was to show up three time the rubric should be the one to tell jkollie, what she need to get at the end of that week11:25
jelknerpeople should be rewarded (and thus incentivized) for following through11:26
jelknerand disincentived for not doing that11:26
jelknerbut you need to think about the "payment rubric" carefully11:26
jelkneryou said a month11:26
jelknerthat's a long time11:27
jelknerso, if jelkner fails to show to one class, he looses his whole month stipend?11:27
dcammueno11:27
jelknerwow, that doesn't sound like it will work11:27
dcammuenot htat11:27
dcammuethat11:27
dcammuei mean, if jelkner loose one class, his money should be cut11:28
dcammuelike, $311:28
jelknerok, much better11:28
jelknerok, here's the deal11:28
jelknerit will be my job to plan lessons11:28
jelknerdcammue, it will be your job to get your people there11:28
jelknernot mine11:28
jelknerbut if they don't show, i'll be holding you accountable11:29
jelknerby which i mean all of jetro11:29
dcammuesure11:29
jelknersince i want future revenue from SJC to Jetro to be for work delivered11:30
dcammuethat's why i am asking them to think this through well11:30
jelkner"work" in this case includes proof of training11:30
jelknerit's still fine with SJC if Jetro members get paid for training11:30
jelkneras long as we have accountability11:31
jelknerwe have concrete evidence they are actually learning11:31
jelknerand their skills are increasing11:31
jelknerand we can depend on them to do useful work for the organization11:31
jelknerafter they complete their training11:32
jelknermake sense?11:32
jelkneri have to go to the DNOVA Council meeting11:32
dcammue+111:32
jelknerso i'll need to leave soon11:32
dcammueso let make it clear, is jelkner taking the initiative to pay his students stipend apart form what jetro is providing?11:32
jelknerno11:33
jelknerthis is all one project dcammue 11:33
dcammueall in the $100 right?11:33
jelknerthat is really for you to tell me, my friend11:33
jelkneryou need to talk the rest of the members11:34
jelknerwhat do the students feel they need to be able to participate?11:34
jelknertransportation yes, but what about food? what about other expenses?11:34
jelkneryou can manage the payments as part of your budget11:35
jelknerand it will show up on your books11:35
jelknerso we can track it11:35
jelknerand learn from the data what people need11:35
jelkneri'm just going to ask the SJC board to make $5K transfers to your bank periodically11:35
jelkneryou need to learn to account for the spending11:36
jelknerso you can report to us at SJC where our money went11:36
jelkneri want to see everything in GnuCash11:36
jelknerAssets = Liabilities + Equity11:36
jelknerlol11:36
jelknereverything should be in balance11:37
jelknerdcammue, if this is a bit confusing, it's because i'm thinking out loud11:37
jelknerand probably contradicting myself11:37
jelknerwhich is *very* confusing, i know11:37
jelknerso let's try to simplify11:38
jelknerwhat does Jetro need to continue in business?  Regular revenue11:38
jelknerright11:38
dcammue+1\11:38
dcammue=111:38
dcammue+111:39
jelknerWhat does SJC need? Evidence that it is fulfilling it's mission to use information technology for social justice11:39
dcammueand that's the book11:39
jelkner+111:39
jelkneryou got it my friend!11:39
jelknerok, gotta go11:40
dcammueso it will be better to add the stipend you proposed to their jetro stipend, which will be $10 per week*4 = $40 plus the $100, which will = $140. according to the students.11:40
thomasboimahjelkner: do you think I should be joining the RABT meeting or I should let that be for now and  keep on focusing on our other leg (Django web development)11:40
jelknersee you tomorrow at the same time on the #novawebdev channel with zOnny11:40
jelkneroops11:40
jelknergood question thomasboimah 11:40
jelknerdcammue, you tell me, you don't need my approval11:41
jelknerjust the agreement of your members11:41
jelknermy main concern is getting you overextended thomasboimah 11:41
jelknerfor now, i don't think you need to attend RABT team meetings11:42
jelknerthough if you want to, you are certainly welcome11:42
jelknerdo you think you get anything out of them?11:42
thomasboimahNot really11:43
jelknerwell then it's a no brainer11:43
jelknerdon't come11:43
jelknerthat was easy11:43
thomasboimahYou are right, for now11:44
jelknerin the long run, the potential benefit is you get to understand the dynamics better of the folks we are working with here in Virginia11:44
jelknersince they will hopefully be your customers in the future11:44
jelknerunderstanding them will be important for Jetro11:45
jelknerbut not for you in particular, thomasboimah 11:45
jelknerit is really the business team that will deal with customer relations11:45
thomasboimahGot you11:45
jelkneryou will deal with customers when you solve their tech problems, and charge them for it!11:46
dcammue+111:46
jelkneryour marketing team needs to understand them better, and the world they inhabit11:46
jelknerin order to develop your business plan11:46
jelknerbut we have dcammue, jkollie and svaye on that11:47
thomasboimahjelkner: can you give me a bit of gist about the progress of decidim 11:47
jelknerin brief11:47
jelknerWe have a meeting next week with Next System11:47
jelknerthey are planning for global Teach-ins in April 202711:48
jelknera little over a year from now11:48
jelknerthey want to use Decidim to organize the Teach-ins11:48
jelknerthey are considering hiring NOVA Web to provide that11:48
jelknerif they do, it will be our first paying customer11:48
jelknerNoVASEN isn't really a paying customer11:49
jelknersince i'm paying ;-)11:49
jelknerit is a very important experiment11:49
thomasboimah;_)11:49
jelknersince we can't market ourselves as Decidim support providers if we can't provide Decidim support!!!11:49
jelknerour partnership with Octree makes it possible for us to realistically think we can be ready to do this more broadly in the not too distant future11:50
jelkneri have to go11:50
dcammueokay, see you jelkner on tomorrow, have nice day!11:50
mulbahGood morning to all I miss calculated the meeting time11:50
jelknerbut dcammue, please ask our friend mulbah here how he wants to relate to the coop11:51
mulbahI'm sorry I late 11:51
dcammuemulbah, how do you want to do this 11:51
dcammuein and out?11:51
jelknersee you later?11:51
svayeHave a wonderful day jelkner 11:51
jelknerthanks all!11:51
jelkneryou too svaye 11:51
fkoikoisame jelkner 11:51
dcammueor just get lost at one?11:51
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mulbahdo what11:51
dcammuehow you want to work with jetro11:52
mulbahThe same way I been working 11:52
dcammueas a visitor or regular participant11:53
gabriel_jetromulbah: u need to be active online that's all since you don't have the chance to come here 11:53
mulbahI can be online almost all the time it's just this gone meeting and today I miss the time11:53
mulbahdcammue regular of course11:54
dcammuesince you want to work with jetro the same way you been working, you need to tell jeff what you are doing11:54
gabriel_jetroJeff seriously need you actively mulbah you need to track the time and participate 11:54
mulbahI will do that I plan to be in the developer meeting tomorrow seh11:55
gabriel_jetroOkay you need to 11:56
mulbahI did some update on the site and create a PR on the github repository 11:57
thomasboimahOkay thanks11:57
thomasboimahOkay thanks11:57
gabriel_jetroJeff is stressing on I and you mulbah for me it's 11:57
dcammuemulbah, just show up that all11:58
dcammuebut you are not regular in showing up11:58
dcammuethat the problem11:58
mulbahI been online it's just that I don't report that why jeff don't really notice me11:59
mulbah"I can be"11:59
gabriel_jetroSure mane you need to report 12:00
mulbahI will do 12:01
mulbahwill you be in the meeting tomorrow 12:01
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gabriel_jetroI might I want to credit to come online tomorrow 12:02
mulbahokay bro 12:03
mulbahwhat you and thomasboimah working on now12:03
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gabriel_jetroNothing much mulbah we were just setting user for the web team class on the server 12:06
mulbahoh okay12:06
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GabrielHi Penrosian_12:42
Penrosian_oh wait I forgot to close hexchat again lol12:43
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shallonhttps://codeberg.org/klarios/Business_Management/src/branch/main/jetroweb.md14:07
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