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# Disorientations Weekly 2020-07-21

8pm EST via Jitsi

**JOIN CALL**: https://meet.jit.si/DisorientationsWeekly

(*Zoom backup, if needed*: https://nyu.zoom.us/j/96488511351?pwd=Y2hzVElQQW5WSGhYelVNcW03OWJkUT09)

**Attending**: Joanne, Matt, Casey

**Facilitator**: Casey

**Notetakers**: Casey

## Agenda
- **Intros** (name, pronouns) [if needed]
- **Check-in question** [4m]
- In a word or two, how are you feeling?
- tired, brain fried
- ~~5 minute reading group~~ (Skipped because we were brain fried, but should try this something (-: )
- Scroll to a random location on the homepage and click (don't think about it!)
- Read for 3.5 minutes
- Discuss for 1.5 minutes

### Discussion Items
- **OurNetworks** - [15m]
- Start a doc for this?
- Joanne is in
- How many people tend to show up? How do you deal with that on Zoom?
- Make something together, a zine?
- Maintenance/archival care
- If we're creating activities or access -- what are those interactions? And dedicate some time to creating?
- Group Bio
- Put something together
- Honoraria
- Format
- [Reached out to Omeka](https://forum.omeka.org/t/learning-omeka-s-beginner-workshops-guides/11493) and found other materials on YouTube
- **Open Collective** - [5m]
- Should we start a place to put funds?
- Will receive small honoraria from OurNetworks?
- What structures/agreements do we need in place to feel good about managing funds?
- If it's too little to qualify then maybe doesn't make sense
- Some clear structure, in person workshops could have materials but probably no costs online
- **Planning some collab work sessions** [5m]
- Want to lead one of these?
- Potential topics:
- **Envisioning/co-designing what a dream version of the site/project looks like**
- Thinking about different kinds of real architecture and types of archives that exist, collaging blueprints
- Send link to Laurel's piece on What If A Website Were A House
- Utopian floorplan collaged with intentional communities and activist spaces -- could be generative and more fun than collaging UX
- Mission/Values/About Us
- Opportunity Mapping (Funding, Collab, etc.)
- Others?
- Could treat these things as a meta exercise, if we're presenting to a group at Our Networks, "if you're starting a project, here's how you think about group identity or designing new features"
- Joanne experience around this?
- Facilitate a lot of workshops
- Presentation as a bit of a forcing function to put things down
- Visual language of the website
- **[Ways To Participate](/nr0UAqj_TDGeFe7ibj88jA) doc** - [5m]
- Something to keep working on
- Ongoing care and maintenance
- We're peripheral people caring
- **Next Meeting** - [1m]
- Tues 7/28 at 7pm
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### For next time...

Skipped these items

- **Blogging/Tweeting Changelog** - [5m]
- Proposal: update the blog and twitter when we:
- update/change collection
- update/change the site
- post meeting notes
- have cool links to share
- Action: Casey to update retroactively
- **Comms with student activist groups** - [5m]
- Tracker of who will have pubs in September?
- "user research" type questions/conversations -- in addition to seeking interest in the archive/collaborating/pandemic edition, schedule some calls to ask very openly: what do people actually want/need?
- **Check Out** - [4m]
- What do you want to do differently next time?

### Followups
- Included a Zoom backup link for future meetings in case we have A/V issues with Jitsi
- Any additional thoughts from Joanne on Eyebeam?
- Casey check-in with Emma on posting notes

## Decisions
- Pending but seems like a good: Use rest of the summer as working sessions alternating between OurNetwork Workshop and Imagining Future Site -- with a few minutes for updates

## Next Steps
- [x] Casey post meeting notes
- [x] Casey ask OurNetworks "How many people tend to show up? How do you deal with that on Zoom? More info on who's attending."
- [ ] Casey respond to Sharon Leon about Omeka workshop materials/collab
- [x] Casey check if OpenCollective has minimums
- [x] Casey start a doc for OurNetworks and send it around - Working sessions, timeline, and todo list
- [x] Casey start "Workshopping The Site in an abstract way" doc