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# Distributed Press Ania/Mai 1:1

## Meeting 13 March 2024

### Agenda
* Biannual report
    * Sutty workshop sections in main outcomes + learnings sections
    * https://docs.google.com/document/d/18FNN8z-dZRPZ6qR2c_55Vi2t98VwPxLupU_F8Uc8Pyk/edit
* Milestones + demo
    * Calendar invite sent for Monday 18th - 9am SF / 1pm BA / 
* Product offering page
    * https://distributed.press/services/
* Fediverse piece
    * Deadline for mai: end of this week
* Announcement pieces for each deliverable
    * https://github.com/hyphacoop/distributed-press-organizing/issues/107#issuecomment-1969258130
    * Mai will look at them Thursday/Friday
* Social media posting
    * Should we post through the flow of Distributed Press blog - post a article - get it on the Fediverse through AP?
    * https://distributed.press/blog/
    handle? we didn't activate toggle for AP in this site
    * we did activate the AP / Fedi account for the Compost blog
    * Ania will make a few posts to have 
    * We'll decide tomorrow on the channels to use!

## Meeting 7 Feb 2024

### Funding opportunities

#### Upcoming deadlines - more details below
* NGI Commons Fund: https://nlnet.nl/commonsfund/
    * Deadline: February 1st 2024, with a deadline of April 1st 2024 12:00 CEST (noon).
* Fediversity: https://nlnet.nl/fediversity/
    * Call will be launched early 2024 (pending - last checked March 13)
* Prototype Fund: https://prototypefund.de/en/
    * Deadline: March 31st, 2024 (23:59)

Other notes:
* More sources of funding: https://docs.opentech.fund/otf-application-guidebook/appendix-iv-alternative-sources-of-support
* Fabby at Guardian Project can give us feedback on OTF grant


#### Mozilla: https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/what-we-fund/
* Doesn't have current funding opportunities

#### Sovereign Tech Fund: https://www.sovereigntechfund.de
* General investments:
    * Deadline: not currently taking new applications until spring of 2024 (might open in March?)
    * Subject:
        * STF invests in open digital base technologies that are vital to the development of other software or enable digital networking. Projects that benefit and strengthen the open source ecosystem. Examples include libraries for programming languages, package managers, open implementations of communication protocols, administration tools for developers, digital encryption technologies, and more. No prototypes, no user-facing apps. Minimum work funded is $150k
        * Projects previously funded: https://www.sovereigntechfund.de/tech
        * Keywords are: societal relevance and undersupply.
        * We only support technologies with societal relevance, i.e., technologies from which a broad public benefits or on which particularly vulnerable groups depend. We consider technologies whose longevity or safety is at risk to be vulnerable
    * Angles:
        * undersupply of decentraliced publishing and infrastructure
        * We should follow them in https://mastodon.social/@sovtechfund

#### OTF: https://apply.opentech.fund/internet-freedom-fund-concept-note/
* IFF
    * Deadline: Rolling
    * Key words / subject
        * We support open technologies and communities that increase free expression, circumvent censorship, and obstruct repressive surveillance as a way to promote human rights and open societies.
        * Types of project funded: https://docs.opentech.fund/otf-application-guidebook/general-funding-guidelines#supported-effort-types 
    * Ideas/angles
        * privacy / anti-censorship angle (potentially use https://veilid.com/)

#### NLNet: https://nlnet.nl/themes/
* NGI Commons Fund: https://nlnet.nl/commonsfund/
    * Deadline: April 1st 2024 12:00 CEST (noon).
    * Key words:
        * collective action and public investment; holistic, full-stack approach; shared building blocks and collective resources; 
        * we believe in the power of the quadruple helix — the collaboration of the public sector, aligned companies, academia and civil society — to restore the internet 
    * Funding amount: 
        * "Between now and 2027 we will award an unprecedented 21.6 million euro in small to medium-size R&D grants towards solutions that bring the next generation of the internet closer."
        * We are seeking project proposals between 5.000 and 50.000 euro
    * Ideas/angles
        * Apply with Open Collective to integrate OC payments into the Fediverse
* NGI Zero Core: https://nlnet.nl/core/
    * Deadline: Feb 1, 2024 (passed)
    * Funding amount:
        * We are seeking project proposals between 5.000 and 50.000 euro's 
    * Key words: security, privacy, interoperability, high availability and scalability of decentralised technologies to benefit from both 'local first' and from economies of scale without unnecessary centralisation
* Fediversity: https://nlnet.nl/fediversity/
    * Deadline: Call will be launched early 2024 (pending)
    * Funding amount:
        * We are seeking project proposals between 5.000 and 50.000 euro's 
    * "Creating he hosting stack of the future"
    * Keywords
        * Proposals that can help Fediversity go harder, better, faster, stronger. 
        * state-of-the-art services for the Fediverse


#### Prototype Fund: https://prototypefund.de/en/
* Prototype Fund
    * Deadline: March 31st, 2024 (23:59)
        * On Febuary 08, we’ll be on stand-by from 5 to 6 p.m. to offer advice and support during an online consultation. 
        * online consultation for FLINTA* on February 13, also from 5 to 6 pm. You can request the link to the video conference via email.
    * Funding amount
        * up to €47,500
    * Background
        * Open Source Funding from Germany
    * Keywords
        * Civic Tech, Data Security, Data Literacy and Software Infrastructure
    * Ideas/angles
        * Prototype payments through the Fediverse
        * 


#### Potential corporate partnerships
* Twilio: https://www.twilio.org/
    * programmable communication tools for making and receiving phone calls, sending and receiving text messages, and performing other communication functions using its web service APIs.
    * >> Integration with Fediverse and dweb?
* Cloudflare: https://www.cloudflare.com/galileo/
    * In-kind free use of their cybersecurity services
* Cosmos
    * Integrating crypto payments with the Fediverse?


   



## Meeting 17 Jan 2024
* Communication tasks between Sutty + Hypha
    * Use weekly sync meetings to brainstorm messaging
    * No obligation on Sutty's side to do comms
    * Would be great to have translations of comms when necessary
    * Around launched features Sutty + Hypha will coordinate more
* Social media posts
    * Projects that implemented DP
    * Open Collective support
* Newsletter/mailing list
    * Ghost? Or Open Collective?

- Checking times for comms deliverables
- PRODUCTIZATION and GRANTS: talk to the team tomorrow and create both strands at the same time. We need to start doing it, how do we tackle it?
-- Start a document between Sutty and Hypha. Ask for feedback from Ben, Faras? (Sutty) and other  folks with a clear commercial view could comment on 


## Meeting 10 Jan 2024
Ideas:
* Triage issue: https://github.com/hyphacoop/distributed-press-organizing/issues/73
* Defining pieces from grupal meeting 2024/1/4 - it's done in https://github.com/hyphacoop/distributed-press-organizing/issues/107


### Notes
* Pieces about releases in issue 107
* Mai to write an abstract for Jordan to see, after meeting with Mauve - about Fediverse/Threads
* If we are trying to create a decentralized environment with social interactions... the Fediverse/Threads is a great angle - estimation for this piece Jan 31st
* Updating the main distributed press site - team, updates, intend to revamp it but might be too much
* Think about a broader strategy. Decide on communication channels.
    * What about a newsletter service for DP updates?
* Writing
    * Not always easy to find a news angle / relevance
* Fediverse/Threads piece should go out when we already have the consultation / business services properly worded and published.




## Meeting 3 Jan 2024

### Notes
* Meta conversation about meeting
    * Check in about communications on Hypha and Sutty sides
    * Project management general check in
    * Block one-hour, but probably use 30', unless we need more to co-work on sth
* Review project board
    * https://github.com/hyphacoop/distributed-press-organizing/issues/106
    * Work projects > tasks > timelines
    * Estimate time on projects
    * Project board: https://github.com/orgs/hyphacoop/projects/20/views/1
* Communication goals
    * Continue to prioritize communicating benefits of dweb publishing to activists
    * Explain why it's helpful and what the point is
    * Fediverse integration needs more publicity
        * What would they like to see, what would they add?
        * Use as a small discovery activity
    * On social media, there was resonance with the fact that there are other spaces besides X/Instagram -- comms to boost other spaces, point to alternatives
    * Ania's story: Textbook for high schoolers, referenced news pieces/Youtube videos, URLs were breaking down and inaccessible, so client asked to download everything and upload to Google drive
        * Problem with using URLs and their failures/impermanence
* >> Do we have distributed.press solutions to address link rot more directly?
        * QR codes? IPFS links?
    * Mai needs to understand which features we will be rolling out and can be communicated. But we need to have the productization clearer in order to improve this strategy.
    * Customers? news agencies, education.
    * New funding opportunities: how can we productize in a way where some are willing to pay / others will find it useful even if unable to pay
        * Apply to more grants to bolster our infrastructure, alongside research/awareness of direction of productization and future income 


### Action Items



## Meeting 14 Dec 2023

### Notes
* Overall
    * More continuous development

* Drop
    * Project management, milestone tracking
* Add
    * Writing about DP
    * Grant writing
    * Public outreach / virtual office hours
        * First one on the 3rd week of January
    * Meeting with potential collaborators
    * Meeting with allies to give us feedback
* Keep
    * FFDW relationship
    * Social media
* Measureable?
    * Time period
    * __ blog posts
    * __ social media posts
    * __ videos
    * __ grants
    * __ virtual events
    * __ conferences
* Ideas for communication
    * 
* Goals
    * New partners
    * New funding opportunities

## DistributedPress as a cooperation of coops
Organizational conversation- TO DO: set a date for a weekly Mai&Ania. Jan 3rd - 3PM
* Project and brand instead of a product
* Roles of co-ops and members
* When to know to ask for feedback? From Ben + others
Create a structure for this conversation.
Building and documenting a non-hierarchical dynamics