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# David, Wendy, Pete, 2021-11-16

## Check Ins

- OFC-led meeting, Interoperable Wisdom Commons
- Crew members - Marc-Antoine Parent
- Items created re initial structure for operations
- File sync options
- Real-time collaborative editing, hackmd is currently okay, need to systematize how it interoperates with GitHub and Obsidian
- ways to do visual/mapping, like Miro

## Fixing Git Problems

- [Resolving Git Problems](https://sandbox.massive.wiki/resolving_git_problems) (a tech-oriented set of solutions)

## OFC Interoperable Wisdom Commons- Mapathon 21

OFC = Open Future Commons, Lionsberg Partner, Jamaica Stevens et al.

- Miro Board - https://miro.com/app/board/o9J_lqaPCGw=/
- wiki/website version of board: https://interoperable-wisdom-commons-mapathon-21.knowledgecommons.wiki/

## Garden Crew Tasks

- [ ] [Mission Statement](/WFxg8rf_RbeIkFGW5JmFpw)
- [ ] [Design Philosophy](/Vh407_DPSnC3c5Ck132CxA)
- [ ] [Design tools and workflow](/-ecLIUBwQ3ep-f6JcYIoeA)
- [ ] Design crew.garden
- [ ] Garden Crew Finance (Trevor)
- [ ] Legal and accounting
- [ ] [Project Management Tools](/29c_3uHpQiextQDq9WrwFQ)

## Organization Noodling

- Leadership Council (crew)
    - vision holder (David)
    - chief of coherence and integration (Wendy)
        - values, designs, systems of knowledge
    - chief of technology operations (Pete)
    - chief of technology architecture (Marc-Antoine?)
- Headquarters
    - head of operations, chief project officer / vp project manager
    - head of finances (accounts receivables / accounts payable) / vp finance
    - chief community officer
    - head of sales
    - head of marketing
- Production Team / Projects
    - editor
    - project manager
    - community development
    - workshop facilitator

## File sync options

- Git
- Syncthing
- Pijul
- Nextcloud
- [Nebulus](https://nebulus.dev/)

David is thinking of an app that made it easy for regular people to download and install stuff, without tripping over git conflicts all the time.

David is questioning whether we shouldn't be creating OPAL rather than do this hacking around trying different sync mechanisms.

## File sync options - background

- people getting caught on sharp edges of git
- new people onboard now don't need full features
- full features useful for collaboration later
- syncthing versioning of files - does not do the conflict resolution - makes backup versions of files - won't get confused - works in real-time - not check in check out like git which makes sense for software developers but not others - would allow us to move away from dropbox etc - web interface - runs in the background - the set up might not be trivial (access, permissions, backups = overhead) individual users will find it easier - some QA needed - nerdy part is on architect
- could write git script - assumes that humans could fix merge problems - 
- Syncthing does big binaries like video 
- IPFS - is hard to use just now - does not have a file system - brittle - does not cover use cases - renaming and multiple versions of each file - some people have done some of this work, Fission Drive, Nebulus (IPFS without IPFS), local and or cloud
- Fuse file system - IPFS is different

## Opal
- simple version of Obsidian first up 5K
- stages - improve but not replicate
- bare bones to more featured version  50K
- many of the parts are lying around

## Zirconia, an alternative to Opal

- web app - wrap in electron as needed
- edit files in editor pane
- viewer in html
- list files in wiki
- link between pages
- does transactions with the github api to read/write files
- no git installed on user's machines
- files synced automatically one at a time

## Cico City

- cico.city domain
- https://www.ted.com/talks/alastair_parvin_architecture_for_the_people_by_the_people?language=en#t-669939
- https://www.wikihouse.cc/
- sustainable design NFTs

## People

- Chris Cook
- Trevor Hilder
- [Marcus Shingles](https://www.linkedin.com/in/marcus-shingles-6b01543/)
