# COMPOST Stewards

###### tags: `COMPOST` `CChange` `Feed&Compost`

## 2023-2-23 Stewards meeting

### Participants
Mai, Wakest, Kola, Andi, Micah

### Agenda
* Check-in
- Zon: Building things, solar panels, very exhausted from mardi gras week but feeling good
- Kola: Working on several projects, wrapping up the quarter
- Micah: Applying for jobs, dad got hospitalized (!)
- Mai: exhausted, trying to stay afloat

* Project Updates
* COMPOST,
- Wrapping up the pieces, 12 contributors. one dropped out (Austin/feral earth)
- Waiting to get in touch with LLN
- Want to get people to work on the next few issues, experimentor space, people know us,
- issue every year currently, would like 2
- new artifacts opportunity
* DP,
- beta release
- Sutty CMS
- Magazine Template - can be deployed
- 3 DWeb Endpoints
* Gray Area Partnership
- interviews
- Signals(femtech, misinfo, cchange)
- Some people in Germany (Cross-cultural)
- random bureaucracy
- xpost - 100/piece - to author or open collective **
- Poetry as a feminist technology
- World Poetry Day coming up: Focus on underrepresented folx

* DWeb Speculative Ethnography
- Find a place to publish it, want to release it in March 2023
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* Newsletter / Website
- Decide how/who will lead the editorial process of the COMPOST blog
- How should we compensate ourselves as editors?

* Branding
name ideas for "blog":
-COMPOST Transmission
-Mulch (MULCH?)
would it exist on a different domain name or a subdomain like transmissions.compost.digital
or: mulch.compost.digital

* Who wants to be on the editorial team?
- Micah
- Wakest

* What would the content be?
- Stewards' work
- mai piece on contributors' conversations
- xpost about dweb
- editorial process
- 1+1
- leveled
- Place for people to think through things -- something we want to react to, imagine, etc.
- Have discussions in the blog as an experimental

* Social media
- Engage with other orgs/projects like the Mozilla Fireside -- livetweeting answers to questions

## 2023-1-12 Stewards meeting

### Agenda
* Project updates: COMPOST + DP
* DWeb Speculative Ethnography
* C/Change Signals
* Governance + Mission

### Notes
* DWeb Speculative Ethnography
* Wants a place to publish their piece - LARP scenario with Black Swan at DWeb Camp
* Wrote a short story about that at mint and burn put it up online,
* for compost, adjacent to reinterpretation of real-world events
* retelling of the set-up that was done there
<mai>: Maybe wait for a separate issue, thematically, maybe one for DWeb
- Start a separate space for more stuff like this
- Shafali: building the dweb interview set later
- Mai: cool to do a dweb reflective issue
- Next couple of months(March) as a timeline for Kola
#followup on this later
* doesn't have to be just from camp - how do we live with our networks today
Kola: maybe a more constant stream of posts
Mai: Newsletter component - get it to inboxes
Mai: Some funding for this might be availabel
Mai: Stewards should be able to post, we need an internal pitching process

** Liazon+Shafali - mid-march is more doable **
** Build the newsletter component **
** meeting with kola+collaborators **
** mid-feb meet **

Gray Area
- FCF - training material for the artists for the dist web
- storage
- content-addressed
- nft
- Distributed press is helping publish the material

** Maybe can come into Compost **
* Andi: Jing-Wei Bird project / Bernice Bing -- Carved into Angel Island as poetry; to advocate for Chinese American community to care about climate change; Del Sol Quartet recording; Trauma and sorrows -- story map to go with the project
- Grandfather brought Lunar calendar that maps lunar/solar cycles from 100 years+

CChange
- femtech, climate change, misinfo
- editorial partnership
- need to figure out terms
- interview people for signals
- Plug in to people/projects that we couldn't accept for Issue 03
- Community building opportunity!

** Make sure they have a CC license **
- CC-BY-NC-SA is ideal
* C/Change Signals partnership

*"To build a more inclusive, accessible, and global digital future, we need new frameworks for technological development. Every month, Signals broadcasts insights from visionaries at the forefront of creative inquiry and design innovation about how emerging tech can support cross-cultural connection.*"

* Supported by Goethe Institut and German Foreign Affairs office, 2 year grant (2022-2023)
* Mai to host 6 podcast episodes over 1 year
* They want to cross-post articles from COMPOST
* Have ~$500 available per piece
* Editorial partnership
* Identify people to interview and write piece
* Text pieces -- they want to be more creative!
* Three topic areas
* Feminist technology
* Climate change
* Misinformation
* Questions
* Who wants to work on this?
* What would compensation look like?

* Governance + Mission
* Mission -- What is our success criteria?
* Some ideas
* Contributors going to DWeb Camp
* Someone build their first DWeb app
* Has DWeb independnece work flow
* Networks that are built
* Promotion of Distributed Press
* Meeting cadence
* Monthly meeting?

# To-do
- MAI: Schedule call
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