Let's Make an Agenda
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Hello! This group is a continuation of our discussion at #FediForum where we can collect and organize all of our ideas around making sustainable communities on the Fediverse by funding specific hosting platforms, servers, and instances. It's likely a temporary group we can use to work out our goals, deliverables, and where we'd like to have a permanent home for this discussion.
In the spirit of an un-conference, I'm happy to follow this discussion wherever it leads, but I think it would be helpful for us to first work out what our goals are and how we'd like to accomplish them.
Also, I think this group is probably not launching any new protocols or standards. But, I think we can probably make a guidebook of recommendations for developers who are looking to navigate this space.
So here's my starter seed for an agenda:
- Schedule follow-on meetings over Zoom <- This is probably our best starting place.
- Identify common ways that servers raise money.
- Discuss features that can be added to software to facilitate this (subscriptions? paid badges? payments revenue sharing?)
- Make a list of recommendations based on past experiences.
- What else do we want to deliver as a result of this group. What does "success" look like?
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B benpate pinned this topic
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RE Meetings: It seems like FediForum meeting times work for everyone, so what if we try to meet on weekends around 8:00 AM Pacific Time (UTC-7)?
+1 to follow-on meetings, zoom works for me, as does 8am Pacific on weekends
Agreed that we are likely not recommending spec changes, but rather discussing and sharing strategies, and possibly helping with implementations.
I think success looks like more experiments with different payment models / features out in the wild, and sharing what we learn as we implement these.
