Meeting Minutes

Monthly General Meeting, November 2024

by amdj

E-mail retention, general secretary election, abuse mitigation

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Monthly General Meeting, October 2024

by amdj

This meeting did not take place.

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Monthly General Meeting, September 2024

by She

Formalising the position of general secretary, testing new software for holding meetings.

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Monthly General Meeting, August 2024

by She

Shutting down Libera/Matrix coordination channels.

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Monthly General Meeting, July 2024

by bakerst

Finishing up a change to the channel namespace policy and an initial discussion about a user mode for IRC bots.

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Monthly General Meeting, June 2024

by She

Relaxation of namespace policy

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Monthly General Meeting, May 2024

by She

Confirmation of new staffer, adding a venue clause to our policies, possible namespace policy update, purging highly expired registrations, policy typo fix

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Monthly General Meeting, April 2024

by She

New staff member

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Monthly General Meeting, March 2024

by Swant

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.

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Monthly General Meeting, February 2024

by She

The merits of relicensing our website content as CC BY-SA

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Monthly General Meeting, January 2024

by She

About fundraising, specifically adding a goal to our Liberapay

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Monthly General Meeting, December 2023

by amdj

Discussion of connection limits for other Matrix bridges, whether accounts should receive automatic user cloaks upon registration verification

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Monthly General Meeting, November 2023

by A_Dragon

Typo fix in Bylaws

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Monthly General Meeting, October 2023

by Sario

Add a new member to the Complaints Rota and discuss handling of inactive members of the Rota.

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Monthly General Meeting, September 2023

by A_Dragon

Changes to our privacy policy, complaints process, and the maximum number of grouped nicknames.

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Monthly General Meeting, August 2023

by She

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.

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Monthly General Meeting, July 2023

by bakerst

New staff members and Matrix bridge discussion.

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Monthly General Meeting, June 2023

by amdj

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

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Monthly General Meeting, May 2023

by amdj

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

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Monthly General Meeting, April 2023

by A_Dragon

Changes to Complaints documentation, Channel closure options, New staff members, +w by default.

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Monthly General Meeting, March 2023

by She

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.

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Monthly General Meeting, February 2023

by bakerst

Ironing out oper privsets, Matrix bridge problems, and clarifying the license for our logo.

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Monthly General Meeting, January 2023

by jess

Bylaw change pertaining to hiring, timeline for upcoming hires, planning out board elections, and a recap on the progress of a new user mode.

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Monthly General Meeting, December 2022

by jess

Approval of a staff member in to the org

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Monthly General Meeting, November 2022

by jess

Staff proxy voting, tweaking invite-notify, and hiding idle times

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Monthly General Meeting, October 2022

by jess

Merch provider backlinks, assisting irc.gnome.org migration, and some policy gubbins.

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Monthly General Meeting, September 2022

by jess

Board elections, potential trademark, and potential irc feature improvements.

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Monthly General Meeting, August 2022

by moonmoon

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.

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Monthly General Meeting, July 2022

by ben

Approval of a new staff member, discuss adding a new Trust & Safety committee

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Monthly General Meeting, June 2022

by kline

New piece of infrastructure, public participation in Working Groups, and officially recognised & trusted external contributors

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Monthly General Meeting, May 2022

by ben

Approval of a new auditor, discuss Libera-branded merch, and load additional Solanum modules.

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Monthly General Meeting, April 2022

by kline

Confirmation new members. Developed org resilience plans. Considered 3rd party infrastructure. Reviewed internal governance policies.

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Monthly General Meeting, March 2022

by ben

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.

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Monthly General Meeting, February 2022

by moonmoon

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.

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Monthly General Meeting, January 2022

by Swant

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.

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Monthly General Meeting, December 2021

by A_Dragon

Short meeting where nothing was discussed (holidays)

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Monthly General Meeting, November 2021

by moonmoon

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.

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Monthly General Meeting, October 2021

by Swant

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.

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Monthly General Meeting, September 2021

by Swant

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.

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Monthly General Meeting, August 2021

by Swant

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

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Monthly General Meeting, July 2021

by Swant

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.

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