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# 2021-01-16 Polis: Open Call
:date: **When?** Sat, Jan 16 @ 19:00-20:00 UTC (noon PT / 3pm ET)
:family: **Who's here?** patcon, giorgos, divya, george, bennie, damien, christina
:raising_hand: **Host:** patcon
:pencil: **Notetaker:** giorgos
## Agenda
1. Intros (if newcomers)
2. Agenda-Building
- _What would you like to make sure we cover in Discussion?_
3. Standup (per-person; [helper link](https://github.com/search?o=desc&s=updated&type=Issues&q=org:pol-is+involves:USERNAME))
- _What, if anything, did you work on last week? What do you hope to work on this week? Any blockers?_
- _Extended topics kicked to Discussion_
4. Discussion (everyone welcome to add)
- _E.g., some topic (username)_
- ...
6. Process check-out
- _How is this format working? Any suggested changes for next week?_
## Notes
- intros
- patcon
- divya. collective go structures. india=>us
- christina. boca raton. setup polis instance. samedies divya. not sure gov level. hurdle is signup but physical address. #todo work in software. worked on code of ordinance in past. adivisory panel of town halls in city.
- giorgos. sweden europe. cryptosystems? math of polis interests. starting to track code.
- mystery person x. damien. mid-level software dev. gates city, vi. exploratory stages of state gov. collective intelligence. investigating other tools. came across polis last sunday. really stoked!
- george. england. NOT EU ANYMORE. interest in changing face of media a bit. interested in polis. learning groups of people reading. collective viewpionts.
- ben rosas.
- topics
- christina: case-studies. how to start. roadmap for running. verifying users. (postcards)
- deployment instructions. seeing admin. screenshots.
- signup with 3rd party login. oauth. own users. xids. ✔️
- how to create tools or content to make polis easily to jump in on. videos, etc. (share-back?) case-studies.
- pc: share thoughts on reddit pattern
- demien: questions
- central place for all resources? pol.is. compdem. intercom help. community forum and meetings. ✔️
- how do these all relate? ✔️
- damien: how to make it easier to find resources?
- christina: is polis dogfooded?
- ideas for improving onboarding experience
- case-studies
- summary of history ✔️
- ...
- ...
- discussion
- case-studies
- christina: seem to assume buy-in already. what about when not?
- summary (by ben&pat)
- chris small and colin megill were in a jazz band. pretty similar over time. almost decade ago. set theory and category math. core function = same. org/focus has changed.
- privates startup at first. startup-y. secretive! funding!
- math&dem -> compdem (non profit)
- vTaiwan! + pol.is = success!
- great press from vTaiwan & Audrey Tang
- resources & structure
- code on github, multiple repos, one main (core)
- developement uses github issues
- github discussions not tried yet but considered
- chat on gitter.im, 2 'forums': polisDeployment and polis-community
- good starting page for resources: README on polis core repo
- knowledge base on roam
- signup & oauth
- xids: when embed, avoid id providers, rather correlate with own data
- generates new id on first access of url
- left in during export
- demo of example app by patcon: [https://github.com/pol-is/polis-examples](https://github.com/pol-is/polis-examples)
- showcase videos
- short form, how to make polis understandable
- christina: what do you mean 'user', and 'use of polis'?
- patcon: mostly participants
- christina:
- the only way to see anything on the platofrm is to create a convo
- better UX around the user: admin, host admin, participant, someone else?
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