Minutes:Mastodon Seed Council Initial Meeting

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A Meeting of the Mastodon:Seed Council.

Pre Meeting

• Respond to the when2meet poll: https://www.when2meet.com/?17869628-SrHto
• Edit the agenda together :)
  • what is the purpose of this instance?
    • who is allowed to join? what will be our registration policy? #admin
  • how do we want to run this instance?
    • who will make the decisions? #CommunityGovernance?
    • how will we make decisions? #CollaborativeTools for votes and #CommunityConsensus? Exec meetings?
  • what will be allowed and importantly what will not be tolerated at any cost? #moderation  #code-of-conduct
  • how do we make this instance self-sustaining? #finance #budget

Introduction

• Neuromatch overview
• Neuromatch mission statement
• Purpose of neuromatch.social

Discussions

• Preconditions for launch
  • (Propose items to break down what needs to be done before starting)
  • ...
• Relationship with neuromatch proper
• Meta-discussion about how we will approve proposals during this meeting
  • start with majority vote?
  • has anyone in this org done consensus?

Proposals

Tentative topic areas:

• Funding
• Decisionmaking
• Moderating
  • On-Call moderation
  • Federation Decisions
  • Intra-instance disputes
• Technical/Maintenance
• Dev Instance - making evolving the medium part of basic instance operation