# Minutes DWebYVR 2025 Planning Meeting No. 2
IRL @ Z-Space 505 Hamilton St
Wed, March 5, 2025
6pm - 8pm PST
Minutes from the previous meeting can be found at https://notes.commonscomputer.com/s/_lhcYj2RE#
## Attending
- David (facilitator)
- Boris (troublemaker)
- Ivar (gardener)
- Emily (notetaker)
- Sung (ideabouncer)
- Danny (websummiter)
## Topics for today:
- Local-First AI hack day, March 29th 2025
- Websummit Dweb
- DWebcamp Cascadia
- DWeb Garden 2025 kickoff
- Tech rummage sale at Z-Space
- DWeb Nodes Meeting next week
## Discussion Notes
### Intros/Settle-in
What's bringing folks joy this week/recently/this season?
* Family visits!
* A new living environment
* Growing older
* ATConference
* Purchasing an acreage <3
* International travel
### **Context-Setting**
A monthly planning meeting enables us to look ahead / keep momentum / bring in new folks who can help convene.
### **Local-First AI Hack day (March 29)**
*David is lead on this event*
(Event page: https://lu.ma/event/manage/evt-JZBob614yyd9rDz)
Has only one registrant so far. Additional promotion?
* Decision about hack days going forward
* two types of hack days: chill/informal ($5 contribution) and more effort/includes talks ($15+ contribution)
*Action items:*
- Tune description on the event (done)
- Send more invites: standalone event on Bluesky, standalone Ghost post, standalone post in Signal chat
- Others help spread the word
### **WebSummit DWeb (Wed May 28)**
*Danny is lead on this event.*
**Context:** IA is sponsoring The Permanent for DWebYVR to host an event during the WebSummit conference. Idea is it's open to everyone, with or without conference tickets. Potential concepts for the event theme include:
* Science fair
* Night market
*Action items*
- Emily create a template
- David give Danny access to Ghost for drafting the blog
- Boris introduce Danny to Mai
- Create a Call for Interest / Recruitment form
- Write a blog post
### **DWebCamp Cascadia (August)**
Initial landing page at https://dwebyvr.org/cascadiacamp/
Call for interest form at https://dwebyvr.getgrist.com/forms/d3vFCuEdpobXBphE4mgakE/4
**Concept:** A weekend gathering in the summer that regionalizes the magic of DWebCamp. It will have our own flavour. Let's build DWebTown
**Target attendance:** 40 people, up to 100
**Content:** We are going to set up our own network in the wilderness
We will talk about DWeb principles, the intersections of art/music/technology, we will talk about software, we will build a local network. We'll share what we're doing, connect with others who are doing it. Based on locaiton, we may forage for mushrooms.
**Theme:** Resillience (?)
**Next Steps:** Aiming to corral ~6 core organizers. Do a Year 1, see if we can execute.
*Action items*
- Visit the potential locations in-person
- Boris follow up with Monashee ridge
- Fill in the form, give feedback on it to Boris
- Announce call for interest form via Ghost
- Future discussion topic: Decide a Theme?
### **DWeb Garden 2025 Kickoff (April 13)**
*Emily is lead on this*
The coFood Collaborative garden is a community asset stewarded by Emily / Living Systems Network. There are Sunday workparties throughout the growing season for folks to garden together, collaboratively.
*Action items*
- Emily create lu.ma event and make David a co-host
- David include this in the April events-ahead blog post
### **DWeb Nodes meeting (Mar 13)**
HQ is inviting nodes to air their support requests in the meeting for nodes next week. How can HQ support DWebYVR? / Cascadia as a whole?
Ask: DWebHQ help promote our local node events
*Action items*
- Determine if there are any further asks
### **Open Collective**
The PolyGlot Open Collective is now a resource, Boris and Chad have accomplished this setup. PolyGlot Software Association takes 10% of funds collected to do the backend work.
*Action items*
- Boris and Emily meet to document the processes around this.
## **Next DwebPlanning (April 9th)**
*Action items*
- Event is set up at https://lu.ma/8l7lmq94
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