2025-03-06.md

2025 March 6

Participants:

• Richard Littauer
• Andrew Nesbitt
• Tobias Augspurger
• Chris Harris
• Michael Scheiwiller

Secretary: Richard. (Unless someone else wants to do this?)

Agenda and Notes

• Introduction to new members and attendees
• Report back from action items from last meeting
  • Richard:
    • Save to repository, make next agenda
    • Document about media outlets
    • Write Gunner
    • [~] Paper status
  • Andrew

    • NumFOCUS Energy, Climate, and Environment Innovation Sprint

    • The idea is to leverage existing curated datasets (e.g., Tobi’s list of over 2,000 human-curated climate-related tools), along with data from sources like OpenAlex, GitHub, MOSS, and Ecosyste.ms.

    • https://funds.ecosyste.ms/ is progressing, can potentially setup an OST fund

    • https://github.com/open-energy-transition/open-esd-analysis

  • Tobi
    • We are a DPG now \o/
      • Still need to suss out what the benefits are.
    • GitHub was asked if they will pay for the flight to CA; probably not.
      • Chris Harris could go and seems keen!
      • Chris, let us know
      • Tobi, follow back up with Paul about flights?
    • Docs with skillset per person
    • Issue about the 'manifesto' website
    • Help on governance editing
  • Michael
    • Add ananlytics to Climate Triage
• Finance report
  • GNOME: Still has $10k.
  • Still have $9500 in the climate fund.
• Media report:
  • Anything we should know about that needs to be covered in this meeting?
    • We have Bluesky and Mastodon and OST
      • https://bsky.app/profile/opensustaintech.bsky.social
      • https://mastodon.social/@opensustaintech
    • Doesn't make sense to make an org LinkedIn
      • Richard write up about this
    • RIchard: Talk to Stuart about posts
• Governance questions
  • protontypes/open-sustainable-technology#932
  • https://communityrule.info/create/
  • Goal for this meeting:
    • Where we are
      • Values: Goals
        • https://report.opensustain.tech/chapters/principles.html
        • Openness
        • Transparency and Traceability
        • Trust
        • Collaborative
        • Localized
        • Decentralized
        • Accountable
      • Decisions
        • Lazy consensus
        • Defaults to Tobi making decisions
      • Processes
        • Asyncronous conversation
        • Pull requests end up with Tobi merging
      • Structure
    • Where we want tobe
      • Values
      • Decisions
      • Processes
      • Structure
  • Governance Doc
    • Set up a Group for reviewing climate PRs (and only that!)
    • Set up roles for the meetings:
      • Secretary
        • Note-taking
      • Facilitator
        • Leads the meetings
      • These will defualt to Richard if he is there, otherwise don't have a meeting without choosing someon
      • Finance: If you ahve been to the last three meetings, you get a vote for how anything over $500 is spent
        • Clear majority 75%+ of quorum
      • In three months - June 6- check back in with what we need
      • Code of Conduct committee
        • Who is on the committee
      • Richard will set up a govenrance doc, and we can make PRS, which will need 100% sign-off fomr the people at the last three meetings
        • Tag the explicit people that is relevant
      • Sign off is an explicit text message that shows agreement.