Global stewardship circle meeting - 11th September 2024

continued from global stewardship circle meeting - 14th August 2024

Agenda items:

  1. Nick: Ahmed is willing to wait for his pay rise but wants to be kept up to date on timing. I propose that I tell him we still can’t increase him to 22euros but will give him monthly updates and increase his rate as soon as we are able. Is this OK?
  2. Nick: We have had a couple of server outages/deployment issues in the UK. The UK team are asking for the regular global maintenance payments to be used partly to pay someone in the EU time zone to be available to help with server/deployment issues. Can I draft a JD for this?
  3. Nick: Jo in the UK team would like to get involved with the strategy review that Kirsten’s colleague is planning. Please can we put them in touch with each other?
  4. Nick: For the sake of transparency should we be using the#global-governance slack channel for planning these meetings? Shall we clear that out of people who are no longer involved then make it a private channel with just us as members?
  5. (Nick) Do we want to discuss this DM I had from Petros or shall I just reassure him that we value him and if he would like to observe the stewardship meetings he is welcome?
  6. (Nick) Do we want to review actions from last time?

Actions:
Nick to talk to Aaron about global spend of Coventry budget;
a) what is the current UK monthly spend on global
b) how much of the £96k arriving on 12th October can go to global to keep David C and Gaetan paid

Nick to update Ahmed

Nick to talk to Rachel about someone from Happy Devs or anyone else who might be able to provide deployment/server cover. This role to be paid from global core at an houly rate. Nick to draft a role description for this

Kirsten to circulate the PD for the strategy role. All to add comments/suggesitons

David to contact the following people to fix a date around1st October for an internal meeting about procurement:
Ali (Soils for Life, Aus)
Soph (Aus)
Bethan (UK)
Kirsten
David
Theresa
Rachel
Amber
Maikel (+other devs??)
Serenity
Pru (Aus)
Alex (starting blox)
Nick

Not wanting to interupt process - I know we are going to have a meeting to start sharing/talking about the new procurment direction. But I started a discourse topic for this. And I also did a zoom recording of the procurement platform I use to procure seedlings (plugs) for flower farmers across Canada. Just as a way to get us thinking about how this could be different from someone buying their groceries in an OFN shop.