Monthly General Meeting, May 2025
Discussion about staff burnout, contributor cloaks
Meeting Minutes
Monthly General Meeting, April 2025
Staff inactivity policy, bylaws change for membership change transparency, network policy change for misinformation, handling of domain names, increasing the length limit for IRC real names
Monthly General Meeting, March 2025
Presentation and approval of annual report. Discharge of last year’s board. Set an organisation membership fee. Election of a new board and auditors for operating year 2025. Acceptance of a pro-bono offer to advise us about the UK Online Safety Act. Network policy amendment for medical advice.
Extraordinary General Meeting, March 2025
Board composition & restructuring, codifying how people withdraw from the organisation or change their quorum membership status, revisiting +s as a default channel mode, revisiting the default channel MLOCK setting
Monthly General Meeting, January 2025
Board composition & restructuring, AGM election process, bylaws section numbering, staff privileges cleanup
Monthly General Meeting, December 2024
Discussion about the recent LLM blog post, clarifying our position on the use of the network by minors and content suitable for network users, bylaws change for general secretary position
Monthly General Meeting, November 2024
E-mail retention, general secretary election, abuse mitigation
Monthly General Meeting, October 2024
This meeting did not take place.
Monthly General Meeting, September 2024
Formalising the position of general secretary, testing new software for holding meetings.
Monthly General Meeting, August 2024
Shutting down Libera/Matrix coordination channels.
Monthly General Meeting, July 2024
Finishing up a change to the channel namespace policy and an initial discussion about a user mode for IRC bots.
Monthly General Meeting, June 2024
Relaxation of namespace policy
Monthly General Meeting, May 2024
Confirmation of new staffer, adding a venue clause to our policies, possible namespace policy update, purging highly expired registrations, policy typo fix
Monthly General Meeting, April 2024
New staff member
Monthly General Meeting, March 2024
Approval of annual report. Election of a new board for operating year 2024. Discharge of last year’s board. Set membership fee. Discussion on MGM minutes deadlines. Plan for April Fools’ Day. Discussion on showing K-line durations.
Monthly General Meeting, February 2024
The merits of relicensing our website content as CC BY-SA
Monthly General Meeting, January 2024
About fundraising, specifically adding a goal to our Liberapay
Monthly General Meeting, December 2023
Discussion of connection limits for other Matrix bridges, whether accounts should receive automatic user cloaks upon registration verification
Monthly General Meeting, November 2023
Typo fix in Bylaws
Monthly General Meeting, October 2023
Add a new member to the Complaints Rota and discuss handling of inactive members of the Rota.
Monthly General Meeting, September 2023
Changes to our privacy policy, complaints process, and the maximum number of grouped nicknames.
Monthly General Meeting, August 2023
Confirmation of new and returning staff, placement of funds in a savings account with intersest, discussion of the pros/cons of centralized internal log management, discussion of possible changes to account expiry and nick limits.
Monthly General Meeting, July 2023
New staff members and Matrix bridge discussion.
Monthly General Meeting, June 2023
Approval of a new Projects & Community Team representative, further discussion about the EMS-run Matrix bridge, consideration of more staff candidates, whether to invert the behaviour of the chm_noctcp (+C) channel mode, further discussion about wallops vs global notices
Monthly General Meeting, May 2023
Approval of a new organisation member, Deciding whether to enable the enforcement actions of an abuse management tool, Further discussion about having an official Mascot for the network/organisation
Monthly General Meeting, April 2023
Changes to Complaints documentation, Channel closure options, New staff members, +w by default.
Monthly General Meeting, March 2023
Approval of annual report. Election of a new board for operating year 2023. Discharge of last year’s board. Set membership fee. Discuss course of action regarding the EMS Matrix bridge. Plan for April Fools’ Day. Agree to make login failure notices opt-in.
Monthly General Meeting, February 2023
Ironing out oper privsets, Matrix bridge problems, and clarifying the license for our logo.
Monthly General Meeting, January 2023
Bylaw change pertaining to hiring, timeline for upcoming hires, planning out board elections, and a recap on the progress of a new user mode.
Monthly General Meeting, December 2022
Approval of a staff member in to the org
Monthly General Meeting, November 2022
Staff proxy voting, tweaking invite-notify, and hiding idle times
Monthly General Meeting, October 2022
Merch provider backlinks, assisting irc.gnome.org migration, and some policy gubbins.
Monthly General Meeting, September 2022
Board elections, potential trademark, and potential irc feature improvements.
Monthly General Meeting, August 2022
New staff candidates, trademark registration, ratification of board decisions surrounding the complaints process, migration of internal documentation, and appropriateness of certain channel types on the network.
Monthly General Meeting, July 2022
Approval of a new staff member, discuss adding a new Trust & Safety committee
Monthly General Meeting, June 2022
New piece of infrastructure, public participation in Working Groups, and officially recognised & trusted external contributors
Monthly General Meeting, May 2022
Approval of a new auditor, discuss Libera-branded merch, and load additional Solanum modules.
Monthly General Meeting, April 2022
Confirmation new members. Developed org resilience plans. Considered 3rd party infrastructure. Reviewed internal governance policies.
Monthly General Meeting, March 2022
Approval of annual report. Election of a new board for operating year 2022. Discharge of last year’s board. Set membership fee. Moved the seat of the organisation.
Monthly General Meeting, February 2022
Restriction on collecting and sharing private info, internal oversight, NickServ registration via the web, bypassing IP blocklists while using SASL, adjustments to an internal channel, accepting donations, difficulties with the Matrix bridge, and staff recruitment efforts.
Monthly General Meeting, January 2022
Staff misconduct process ratification, privacy policy updates, preparations for upcoming chair election, loading channelmode +T, renaming of internal channels, updating oper privsets, access to organisational vs staff tools, minutes storage, chm_operonly, changes to purpose of internal channel.
Monthly General Meeting, December 2021
Short meeting where nothing was discussed (holidays)
Monthly General Meeting, November 2021
Rescheduling the December MGM, update on chair elections, data retention, sponsor recognition, policy to forbid doxing, allowing board members to lose quorum status, reducing the number of grouped nicknames, server-side filtering, and group contact engagement.
Monthly General Meeting, October 2021
Update on bank account, data retention, preparations for chair elections, consensus-based decision making training, follow up on transparency - real names on the website, minutes storage, +w by default.
Monthly General Meeting, September 2021
Approval of new members, bylaws amendment about expiring quorum status, discussion around DNSBLs / DroneBL, update on bank account, changing the nick expiration policy, permanent solution for opt in user cloaking without staff intervention, consensus-based decision making training, and an update from the working group on processes for dealing with staff misconduct.
Monthly General Meeting, August 2021
Approval of new members, preparations for chair elections, staff and member activity, staff recruiting, bridging, nickname expiration, and a follow up on transparency - real names on the website
Monthly General Meeting, July 2021
De-listing proprietary platforms from our website, defining processes in case of staff misconduct, transparency - real names on the website, consensus building, and meeting timing.