IRC log of #novawebdev for Sunday, 2025-09-14

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klariosgreetings everyone! i see I am early19:45
jelknergreat to see you klarios 19:46
klariosthank you! glad to be here 19:47
klarios!agenda19:47
WebsterssNo active meeting. Use !startmeeting <ID> to set a meeting as active.19:47
jelkneri was scrambling to set up a laptop for sahnun19:47
klariosshould we activate a meeting19:47
jelknernot sure we need to19:47
klariosahh i see 19:47
jelkneri'm in favor of learning to use that feature19:47
jelknerbut we haven't been so far19:47
klariostrue that, I know for me it was a bit confusing 19:48
klariosI might need a refresher again 19:48
jelknerme too ;-)19:48
jelknerlet's see what happens when zOnny comes19:48
jelknerhe was familiar with a lot of our old practices19:48
jelknerhe can help us19:48
klariosyeah, he'll take a look at the bot and know exactly how it works19:48
klariosIm sitting just outside of ballston metro, it seems theres a demonstration happening, Im not sure what for though?19:49
thomasboimahGreeting klarios anthony_p sahnun and jelkner 19:49
jelknerthere we go, klarios, i was saying thomasboimah will know how it works too19:49
klariosgreetings thomasboimah ! long time no see19:49
jelknerwe can ask him for guidance19:49
jelkneranthony_p, are you here comrade?19:50
klarios+1 we're counting on you thomasboimah ! we definitely need a refresher on how this bot works 19:50
anthony_phello19:50
klarioshi tony! long time no see as well! 19:50
thomasboimah!help19:50
WebsterssAvailable commands: !add, !agenda, !createmeeting, !endmeeting, !help, !listmeetings, !remove, !startmeeting, !stopmeeting19:50
thomasboimah!listmeetings19:50
WebsterssNo meetings scheduled.19:50
thomasboimahSure go ahead klarios 19:51
klarios!createmeeting NWDbusinessplan19:51
WebsterssMeeting 'NWDbusinessplan' created successfully for ET 2025-09-14 00:00.19:51
klarios!startmeeting NWDbusinessplan19:51
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thomasboimahACTION going to read the log19:51
klarios!listmeetings19:52
WebsterssScheduled meetings:19:52
anthony_phey klarios, been a bit19:53
sahnunhi all :)19:54
thomasboimahklarios, you can now add the agenda by using the "!add command"19:54
klariosyep Im taking a look at the agenda19:55
thomasboimah!add 1. Discuss our Start Up Funds Capacity Building Plan19:55
WebsterssAgenda item added to meeting 'NWDbusinessplan': 1. Discuss our Start Up Funds Capacity Building Plan19:55
klariosthere you go!19:55
klariosnicee19:55
thomasboimah!add 2. Discuss the process of writing our business plan (note: we can begin19:55
WebsterssAgenda item added to meeting 'NWDbusinessplan': 2. Discuss the process of writing our business plan (note: we can begin19:55
thomasboimahwith what ManusAI gave us:19:55
thomasboimahhttps://codeberg.org/jelkner/SolidarityEconomyNotes/src/branch/main/NOVAWebDev/BusinessPlan.md19:55
thomasboimah!add 3. Help Shallon finish processing the first Invoice for the ToDo app19:56
WebsterssAgenda item added to meeting 'NWDbusinessplan': 3. Help Shallon finish processing the first Invoice for the ToDo app19:56
thomasboimahand discuss how we will create a workflow for a. Doing work, b.19:56
thomasboimahInvoicing, c. Collecting, d. Paying workers.19:56
thomasboimahklarios, and jelkner i hope this is the agenda?19:56
thomasboimahI saw this in the mail jelkner send19:56
thomasboimah!agenda19:56
WebsterssAgenda for meeting 'NWDbusinessplan':19:56
jelknerWow, watching two young, smart tech folks taking charge of this is *so* exciting for an old foggy like me!19:57
jelkneri can't keep up19:57
jelknerbut with any luck, i won't have to ;-)19:57
anthony_pSo, I think that with how interconnected Jetro and Nova are, I feel it's important to modify and update the Nova business plan to take that into account, and Jetro should have their own business plan that takes Nova into account19:58
anthony_pI would suggest we discuss the second item first because I think it will help with making decisions on the first item19:59
anthony_pthoughts?19:59
jelkneri was about to type +1 to your first comment19:59
klariosI took a look at jelkner's +manis ai draft and it looks very structured, exactly what we need20:00
klarioswe can add on from there 20:00
jelknerwhat we need to decide on that is who and when20:01
jelkneranthony_p, i agree with you 100%20:01
jelknerso we should get a review group together to edit and tweak it20:01
jelknerand jetro can work with us to develop their plan too20:01
jelknerbut, i think 1 and 3 are the most immediate needs20:01
klarioswe should! 20:02
jelknersince we need to figure out what we will be doing20:02
jelknernow20:02
jelknerand what our timeline is20:02
sahnunI have a concern about the business plan - using AI to generate it necessarily will lead us to have a plan that's more or less the same as any other web dev business who's also starting up and using AI. I think it's best  we minimize the usage of it so that we don't end up implementing a plan that the avg web dev startup founder will be using as well.20:02
anthony_pso, if we are taking into account Jetro, we need to define that relationship in the business plan, and make sure that jetro is okay with how we define and plan to implement that20:02
jelkner+120:02
jelkneryes anthony_p i agree with you20:02
klariosyeah its a priority since we may not always be a constant source of work for jetro, we hope to of course, but there's got to be a plan for their survival20:04
jelknerzOnny should be here any second20:04
klariosahh were waiting on him right20:04
jelknerwe scheduled the meeting for this time so he could join us20:04
jelknerhe just got back from work20:04
anthony_pas for the proposal on funding capacity building, i think that will strongly rely on where the funds come from, and how the funders wish to see those funds spent. The funding being provided by SJC is of course strongly influenced by members of SJC20:05
sahnunI'll read the whole thing and critque it but I'm wary. It may be the expedient way to do it but I just fear using it without it at least being vetted by someone with experience with business plans. AI is still probabialistic autocomplete.20:05
klarios+1 no worries, I will stay for as long as needed20:05
jelknermake it better for us, comrade sahnun 20:06
klariostrue sahnun but I still think there are elements that are useful to our survival in there 20:06
jelknerstart with it, and tells us where it is lacking20:06
klariosit provides us the strucure we dont have yet20:06
jelknerbut be concrete please20:06
jelkneri'm thinking a few people who want to do that should go through it section by section and line by line and make changes where they think it needs changing20:07
jelknerthat's the power of the tool20:07
klariosbut I do agree it lacks the niche you mentioned to me last time. To some extent having jetro's help is our "niche", in terms of our product, do we have a niche?20:07
klarios1+ shall we put it on nextcloud jelkner ? last time i saw, it was on codeberg?20:08
klarioshey zOnny !20:08
jelknerwelcome zOnny!20:08
zOnnyHello World!20:08
klarioswelcome!20:08
sahnunOk - I'll get more concrete about my concerns and critique what we have. I really just don't want us to miss out on a better plan that would separate us from non-solidarity economy competiton that's also starting up20:08
sahnunWelcome!20:08
klarios+1 I think that we are here to express our wants and our needs as a cooperative. Everything goes as long as we stick to our 3 values 20:09
jelkner+120:09
sahnun+120:09
zOnny+120:09
klarios!agenda20:10
WebsterssAgenda for meeting 'NWDbusinessplan':20:10
anthony_pMy main critique is that the capacity building plan reads more like a plan on how to use funds rather than how to build them, which is not a bad thing to discuss, i just don't see anything in the plan that mentions how to build capacity, only use capacity20:11
klariosso, getting to the concrete talk. We've got to discuss the allocation of funds into capacity building and how to ensure these funds don't just run out on us20:11
jelknerahh, good point anthony_p 20:11
jelknerthe capacity part is in my head20:11
jelknerjust not in the document yet ;-)20:11
anthony_pwhat is the list of our sources for potentially gaining funding?20:12
jelknerso good criticism20:12
jelkneri'm a little less concerned with making that list now anthony_p 20:12
jelknersince i think what is blocking us is our lack of capacity20:13
klariostheres no real way to start this conversation 20:13
klariosbut looking insde is a good start20:13
klarios+1 jelkner 20:13
jelkneri was just on a 1 hour meeting before this with one of the NOVASEN members20:13
jelknerwe where talking about Decidim20:13
jelknerwe need to answer a *crucial* question20:13
jelknerCan Decidim be an effective online tool for movement building?20:14
jelkneri don't know the answer to that question20:14
jelkneri'm proposing we spend $15K finding out20:14
jelknerif the answer is "yes"20:14
klariosit certainly can be if done correctly20:14
jelknerthen the moevement is growing20:14
jelknerand will continue to grow under current circumstances20:15
anthony_pdecidim is a tool, and is only as effective as a tool as the people using it can make it20:15
anthony_pmovements are people20:15
jelkneryes anthony_p, i know that20:15
jelknerbut that isn't my question20:15
jelknerlike i said, i was just in an hour long converstaion about this20:15
jelkneris decdim more effective than Google docs?20:16
jelknergiven the same people20:16
jelkneranthony_p, klarios and i are in a group of pretty dedicated people20:16
anthony_pof course, but, i don't think that simply committing 15k to a tool is an effective strategy for testing it20:16
sahnunI'd say look at the use cases from spain - any movement building ones? 20:16
jelknerbut they are saying they found our first go round with the tech hard to use20:16
jelknerand they didn't see how it helped them do what they wanted to do20:16
sahnunor really from anywhere - past use cases... 20:17
klariosI think we werent ready to use it with them :( sadly 20:17
klariosboth from an organizing and cooperative perspective20:17
jelkneranthony_p, sahnun in novasen and vasen we  have committed people willing to work with us20:17
anthony_pi think we should look at working with our partner in Octree, and see if we can get a minimal implementation from them for NOVASEN that we will maintain, to really test the relationship and model20:17
jelkneryes anthony_p 20:18
jelkneri am depending on octree20:18
klariosI think that in order to truly understand how this tool can help us, we have to be aware of all the perspective and the spaces in which they operate 20:18
anthony_p+1 klarios20:18
sahnun+120:18
klariosas organizers, as developers, as laborers, as people who have never used tech 20:18
anthony_pwe need a requirements list from NOVASEN to determine what the decidim instance needs to provide for them to replace other tools20:19
klariosthat's a lot of time testing from success and error20:19
klariosI think we should tackle that when we've discussed our organizational needs20:20
klarioslike "what does it mean to organize for Nova vasen" 20:20
klariosfor now, lets focus on building a strategy to build with what we have and make it last20:21
jelknerklarios, a big +1 on this20:21
jelkneranthony_p, most of our customers are not going to know how to give us a "requirements document"20:21
jelknerour job is going to be to listen to them20:21
jelknerand tell them we know how to help them use this tool to meet their needs as organizersa20:22
jelknerorganizers20:22
jelknerwe need to be effective consultants20:22
jelknermovement "experts"20:22
jelknerwith our movement tool20:22
anthony_pmost customers don't know how to give a requirements document, that is something generally collected through the service provider through business meetings20:22
jelknerfor this first go round20:22
jelknerour customer is novasen20:23
anthony_pso part of our capacity needs to be a capability for identifying those requirements20:23
jelknerklarios, sahnun and jelkner are all active with the group20:23
jelknerso we can very effectively communicate "customer needs"20:23
jelkneranother thing to note anthony_p 20:24
jelknermatt slatts emailed me back that the richmond deployment is moving ahead, but that he is even more excited about the vasen one20:24
klariosI can start making a small list of what im starting to see. 20:24
anthony_psounds good20:24
jelknerexcellent!20:25
klarios1. Effective costumer communication/relationship (building relationships of trust to better understand perspective and need) 20:25
jelknerlet me just say what i'd like to see from NOVA Web20:25
jelknerwe need a contract20:25
jelknerand it doesn't have to have a long list of deliverables20:26
jelknerbut i'd like to see it written in 3 stages20:26
jelkner1/3 ($5K) on start20:26
jelknerdeliverables include deploying a branded novasen website using the platform20:26
jelkner2/3 (next $5K) maybe 3 months into the process20:27
jelknerdeliverables include data showing active use of the platform by novasen members who share their work and make proposals20:27
jelkner3/3 (last $5K) about 6 months in20:28
jelknerdeliverables include a survey of the users getting their feedback on their experience using Decidim as organizers20:29
jelknerand *HOPEFULLY* confirming that it is indeed an empowering tool for our movement20:29
jelknerthoughts?20:29
klariosthis is your costumer hat jelkner ?;p20:29
jelkneryup20:30
jelknerfrom the SJC point of view20:30
klariosits a good concrete goal we can tackle. We would need Novasen's perspective on all of these processes of cours20:31
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klariosin terms of development we have Octrees help but not indefinitely 20:32
anthony_pI think that's a decent outline. will certainly need significantly more details, like the format that the data needs to be provided in, probably a full report, possibly some sort of page attached to the site that shows usage statistics20:32
klariosbuilding our capacity also means building a plan so that developers of decidim can do what octree does with us. 20:32
klarios+120:33
jelknerand we need to include Guillaume in every stage20:33
jelknerok, klarios we should start as soon as possible20:34
klarios+1 messaged sam about that. We have a bill from guillaume for the NOVASEN instance already 20:34
klarioswe can bring that up next meeting 20:34
jelknerso the clock is ticking20:35
jelknerwe don't have time to waste20:35
jelknerwe are paying for an instance now that we aren't using20:35
jelknerso the sooner we start using it, the better20:35
klariosyep true that20:35
klariosi would even say we dont need it now20:35
jelknerok, the money is here now20:35
jelknerso let's go!20:35
klariosbut the data in it is essential 20:36
klariosespecially the blogs!20:36
jelknercan we talk about the 2nd 1/2 of this, now that zOnny is back?20:36
klariossure 20:36
jelknerzOnny, i'm thinking that for now we will be hiring you part time as a consultant20:36
jelknerto work mainly with thomasboimah 20:37
klariosconcretely. I will say that I will build the organizing profile for novasen anthony_p, this is the list you were talking about, I want to consult charles on this as well20:37
jelkneri listed the specific websites to work on in the document20:37
klariosjelkner: plus infrastructure needs please20:37
jelknerbut along the way, we will be developing our processes and workflow20:37
jelknertotally, klarios20:38
jelknerit means reducing our costs20:38
jelknerconsolidating our servers20:38
jelknerdeveloping our bookkeeping skills *fast* so we can keep books20:38
jelknerwe'll have taxes to file soon20:39
jelknerzOnny, you finish school in 9 weeks, yes?20:39
klarioswe do! its crucial 20:39
zOnny8 weeks from now20:40
jelknerperfect20:40
jelknerso i'm thinking the real launch for this project will be in 8 weeks20:40
klariosyay! congrants! time goes by quick20:40
jelknersince we need you with us to make this all work20:40
klarioswhat part of the project jelkner ?20:40
jelknermaking websites!20:41
klariossince we need the decidim instance asap20:41
anthony_pcongrats zOnny20:41
klarios+1 agree20:41
jelknerno, klarios that is your 1/2 of the plan20:41
klariossahnun: this is where your experience comes in as well 20:41
jelkneri'm talking about the Django website dev part20:41
jelkner+120:41
klariosin terms of a niche, in terms of expanding or further developing our product20:41
sahnun+1 20:42
klariosthat includes a designer20:42
jelknerwe have several websites that need updating20:42
klarios:(20:42
jelknerzOnny make beautiful sites20:42
jelknerhe can help with that20:42
jelknerright zOnny?20:42
klariostrue that ! the load may too big on him though, I think a designer can be another one of our niches20:43
zOnnysure20:43
jelknerklarios, we need designers20:43
klarioswe do 20:43
jelknerbut we have to work with what we have now20:43
jelknersince $15K is not much funding20:43
jelknerso we can't hire a designer other than ourselves20:44
jelknerzOnny and sahnun both know how to make good looking websites20:44
jelknerso we have what we need to start20:44
jelknerwe can20:44
jelknerwe can't do custom logos yet20:44
klariosalso I paused the orders of the business cards 20:45
klariosmostly because I wanted to get to this moment20:45
jelkneryes indeed20:45
klariosright now its me, tony, and jelkner 20:46
anthony_pI think that we should potentially work on sending custom logo requests to people we've worked with in the past, reference to people we know20:46
jelknerit's time to launch, klarios 20:46
jelkneri think we need to start with our own site20:46
klarioswould sahnun & zOnny be interested in having your own cards?20:46
jelknerwe don't even have a good list of "members" or "customers"20:46
jelknerit is outdated and needs to be fixed20:46
klarios+120:47
sahnunYes, I meet people in AA here and there who ask me for help.20:47
anthony_pi think we need to define different levels of involvement20:47
klariosthats time consuming but we do have to make an "investment" to the coop20:47
anthony_pbefore we can update that accurately20:47
jelkner+120:47
klariosnormally its in the form of money but sometimes in the form of time20:47
jelknerwe have that in our operating agreement20:47
jelknerklarios, anthony_p next Spring the 3 of us should have that discussion20:48
jelknerfor changes we need to make next May 1st20:48
anthony_pwe need to maintain an addendum to the operating agreement listing who is who, and what role they fill probably20:48
jelknernot so sure we need that anthony_p 20:48
anthony_pwhy not?20:48
jelknerfrom a legal point of view, NOVA Web has only two worker / owners klarios and anthony_p 20:48
jelknerfor now20:48
jelkneranyone else is a consultant20:49
anthony_por an intern20:49
jelknertrue20:49
anthony_pthat's something defined in the operating agreement20:49
anthony_pwe need to have a list of interns20:49
jelkneri think we need to tighten up who is on our page as being "us"20:49
anthony_pso we have that documentd20:49
jelknerhere is my proposed list:20:49
anthony_pi think interns would count as "us" though, just not member owners20:49
jelknerklarios, anthony_p, sahnun, jelkner, thomasboimah, shallon, zOnny 20:50
jelknerthat is the "us" we will launching with20:50
jelknerthoughts?20:50
sahnun+120:50
klarios+120:50
jelknerlet's not put interns on the "About Us" page20:51
jelknerwe can have a separate page for them20:51
jelknersince they come and go so often20:51
klariosAgreed!20:51
anthony_pokay20:51
jelknerwe need to professionalize in this 4th reboot! ;-)20:51
klariosI think we should include a "pathway to ownership" in a tech coop like ours20:52
jelknerwe have that, klarios 20:52
anthony_pthat's part of the operating agreement20:52
klariosits in our operating agreement but not our front page20:52
jelknerah, you mean website20:52
klarios+120:52
klariosyep20:52
jelknerand now the question is one of timeline20:53
anthony_pi don't think it needs to be part of the website really, i think just making the operating agreement transparent and allowing people to see it is good for that20:53
jelknercan we start updating our own site now, or do we need to wait 8 weeks for zOnny?20:53
klariosthat too! I just think people should be aware of what it means to be in a cooperative, like a warning and not at the same time lol 20:54
anthony_pdo you want to use the SJC funding to pay Django developers to do that now? seems like a good way to handle that20:54
jelkneranthony_p, that fact that we are committed to a pathway to worker ownership is a big part of our "brand" as a legit movement co-op20:54
jelknerit should be on our website20:54
jelknerpart of our story20:54
anthony_pyes, via downloading the operating agreement20:54
klariostheres much more to being an owner than just working 20:54
jelknerokie dokie20:54
klariosit is what we want to transmit20:54
anthony_pwe should mention that there is a pathway, pointing to the operating agreement20:54
jelkneranthony_p, i do want to pay the Django develpers to do that first20:55
anthony_ptransparency is a part of our brand too20:55
jelknerbut unless sahnun can take charge of that20:55
jelknerwe need to wait for zOnny 20:55
klariosnah, I mean being a cooperativists. I think we should be clear of the type of people we want in our team 20:55
jelknersince no one at Jetro quite has the design chops yet to do that on their own20:55
jelknerzOnny could be a huge help20:56
sahnunI don't have a personal laptop and need to ramp up on Django, unless the changes are minimal like content updates, simple rearranging.20:56
jelknersince they will need to work with our gitlab repo20:56
anthony_palright20:56
jelknermake changes to the NOvA Web branch, etc20:56
klarioswe can include pathway to ownership and transparency, but people should be aware of the solidarity economy, that their role is resistance20:56
klarios+120:56
sahnunSo, I'd have to borrow someone laptop to even do that, probably a few weeks until Ican be productive.20:56
jelknerthey don't know how to do that20:56
klariosIve made some changes but have figured how to publish them live20:56
klariosI've changed the contact info, some bio's etc20:57
jelkneryup20:58
jelknerall that needs to be update20:58
jelknersahnun is here telling me he can reach out to his dear friend louie for help getting started20:58
jelknerwhile we wait for zOnny to graduate!20:58
klariossahnun: ooo no good, I have an extra computer, its pretty slow but it can do the minimum 20:59
klariosits on debian!20:59
klarioskde20:59
jelkneri have a nice little laptop with linux mint on it i can lend him20:59
jelknera student of mine donated it recently when he graduated20:59
jelkneri'll send it to Liberia with me next Summer20:59
jelknerbut he can use it now21:00
jelknerso we've been here an hour21:00
anthony_pwe have21:01
jelknerlong meetings are generally not productivbe21:01
anthony_p!help21:01
WebsterssAvailable commands: !add, !agenda, !createmeeting, !endmeeting, !help, !listmeetings, !remove, !startmeeting, !stopmeeting21:01
jelknerproductive21:01
sahnunAlright friends, I've got to roll out. Will pick up the laptop from Jeff on Wednesday21:01
jelknerwhat else do we need to discuss before we ajourn?21:01
anthony_p!agenda21:01
WebsterssAgenda for meeting 'NWDbusinessplan':21:01
klarioswe are meeting on thursday right jelkner ?21:01
jelkner+121:01
klariosanthony_p: 21:01
klariosgood21:01
klarios+121:01
anthony_pis there anythign we need to do for shallon, or did she need to be here?21:02
jelknerlet's start having weekly meetings on Thursdays at 3:15 right?21:02
zOnnyI can join as well21:02
jelknergreat zOnny 21:02
jelknerright here, 3:15 pm EST 19:15 UTC21:02
zOnnyI would like to get familiar with the dev team21:02
jelknersuper21:02
zOnnysince not everyone is in the U.S. yes?21:02
klarios+1 till then, see you all! thank you21:02
jelknerright21:03
jelknerthomasboimah, is in Liberia21:03
thomasboimah+121:03
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thomasboimahI'm also looking forward to work with you zOnny 21:03
zOnnygreat21:03
zOnnythis is a good start21:03
jelknerthomasboimah, you can ask zOnny any UoPeople questions too21:03
thomasboimahI have hear a lot about you form jelkner 21:03
jelknersince he is about to finish his degree21:04
thomasboimah*from*21:04
anthony_p!stopmeeting21:04
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jelknersweet21:04
jelknercya on Thursday!21:04
jelknerthanks!21:04
anthony_psee you thursday21:04
jelknerthomasboimah, see you tomorrow at 11 UTC21:04
thomasboimahOkay!21:04
jelknerbye21:04
zOnnysee u21:04
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thomasboimahBye everyone21:05
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