# 2019-03-16 Community Infra Cowork :dart: **Topic:** Infra onboarding & pitch-board overview. :calendar: **Date:** Sat, Mar 16 @ noon-2pm :family: **Who's here?** Yan, patcon **Legend** :star: Action Item - patcon gave yan overview of [community infra tool list](https://github.com/CivicTechTO/overview#community-infrastructure) - created [new trello board for community infra](https://trello.com/b/qwcdi4Ae/civictechto-community-infra) - yan: we should make a "box" for other organizations to start using tools like this - patcon: YES! but feels like we need to validate that this is useful first within our own group. not sure I feel convinced of that yet, though prob my own inability to communicate value - patcon set up meeting with Open Oakland organizers, [Alison Lawyer](https://twitter.com/alison_lawyer?lang=en) & [Colin King-Bailey](https://twitter.com/ckingbailey), who are intersted in [`civictechto-scripts`](https://github.com/civictechto/civictechto-scripts) - rescheduled - patcon: [dweb meetup group](https://www.meetup.com/p2p-and-dweb-toronto/) also discussed this at their first meetup. was interest in supporting other community groups use tech to organize in more distributed social ways - we could offer support to both local Meetups and hacknight in other cities - patcon invited yan into his private #organizing-feed channel - agree that the value of the hacknight space is to create more connections - partly just between people - there is also the concept of "ideas" or perhaps more appropriately "challenges" that we are trying to better connect people with. Not just connecting them with people, but with valuable challenges to support others to address. - :star: Present trello pitch board to monday organizer meeting. (yan) - :star: Use pitch board at first hacknight. (patcon+yan) - :star: create first email blast for end of March (patcon)