# Documentation & Note Taking **Date:** 9/5/2021 **Attendees:** Cody & Graven ---- - The long term vision for the Geo Web is to be publicly governed and maintained - As of right now, only our small team is engaged in the important discussions that will set the trajectory of the project - Over time, hopefully others will join the conversation - The challenge we will have is to expose them to the history of conversations, trade-offs, and reasoning behind why decisions were made - Documentation formalizes and communicates the "way things are" and good documentation should also illuminate rationale behind the design decisions where appropriate - But there's also room for a more raw stream of history capturing the design and development of the project - "[Digital Gardens](https://maggieappleton.com/garden-history)" and sharing notes - [Roam](https://roamresearch.com/) and other wiki-like note taking tools/communities - Cody uses [Obsidian](https://obsidian.md/) - [Notion](https://www.notion.so/) - [https://maggieappleton.com/nontechnical-gardening](https://maggieappleton.com/nontechnical-gardening) - Take notes during all online and offline discussions and share them publicly - Take better notes - Create a paper trail for future self to review - Improve team visibility/communication - Create an in-depth onboarding mechanism for someone interested in the Geo Web - Scales better than the current team being responsible for catching a new member up through the entire history of the project - Goal: Improve future decision making by having better informed stakeholders/decision makers - Proposal: Start publishing a Geo Web digital garden - What to publish - Weekly status updates - Meeting notes - Concept and spec ideation/formation/drafting - Where to publish - Start with a Github repo - Move to [Radicle](https://radicle.xyz/)? - Note taking format/tools - Markdown & wikilinks based notes, so use any editor with those features: - [https://obsidian.md/](https://obsidian.md/) - [https://gitjournal.io/](https://gitjournal.io/) - [https://tiddlywiki.com/](https://tiddlywiki.com/) - [https://hackmd.io/](https://hackmd.io/) - [https://hackmd.io/c/tutorials/%2Fs%2Flink-with-github](https://hackmd.io/c/tutorials/%2Fs%2Flink-with-github) - Follow git based rules for committing/updating the repo - Action Items - Research and propose standardized toolset for our team (Cody) - Create a Github repo - Create templates for Weekly Status and Meeting Notes documents - Start taking and publishing notes - Research Radicle vs or working with Github (long term transition)