Community overview

Community standards

• Land acknowledgments?
• General code of conduct

Governance

• Cooperative effort & organization
  • Physical network of ~20 NGO members
    • cooperating through the Orcasound Memorandum of Agreement
    • resilience through independent NGO hosting and funding of nodes
  • Open source hardware and software community with ~100s of members
  • Concerned Community and Professional Conservation Scientists ~1000s of subscribers, moderators, and other roles
• Do-ocracy for volunteers!
  • Contributing guidance for software design and development
    • user-centered design & development philosophy
    • best practices (to which we aspire across the organization)
    • pointers to repos with most-developed CONTRIBUTE.md files
• Collective for funded projects
  • Link to current Collective admins
  • Links to funded repos?
• Creative Commons license on raw data (discuss NC?)
• Permissive license on software
• RAIL for models?

Resources and funding

• link to #community-resources channel in Slack?
• link to quarterly expense tracking Gdoc (or shift to updates via a new wiki page?)

Acknowledgements

• Hacker hall of fame
• Organizational members
• Credits and sponsorships (past and present?)

Communication and records

• Roadmap(s)
  • Trello board
  • Google drawing schematics
  • Paul's digital architecture charts
  • Old paper charts
• Github tools
  • Org README
  • Wikis
  • Discussions
  • Issues and PRs
• Slack
• Meetings
  • Weekly general standups
    • Current Google doc with shared notes
    • 2023 archive of shared notes
    • 2022 archive of shared notes
    • 2021 archive of shared notes (started May, 2021)

Recruitment channels

* in-person hackathons (Seattle)
* DemocracyLab (Global)
* Microsoft hackathons (+1 from Amazon in Dec 2020)
* Google of Code (volunteerism during application process Jan-Apr, coding paid via Google stipend Jun-Aug)
* Github.com
* Other boot camps (Career Foundry)
* Word of mouth and personal references