Meeting Notes: Feb 8, 2019

Date: Feb 8, 2019
People: galfert, gregkare, lio17, raucao, slvrbckt

Agenda

1. Welcome
2. Find a scribe
3. Quick sync on the current state of everything Kosmos (non-detailed)
   1. Kosmos Chat (Hyperchannel, Sockethub, XMPP server, ...)
   2. Kosmos Kredits (Contracts, Web UI, ...)
   3. Kosmos infrastructure and public services (Mastodon, XMPP server, Gitea, IPFS + cluster, Bitcoin/LN)
4. Plan project-specific meetings, with the aim of creating detailed roadmaps
5. Summary and action items

Log

Current state

Chat

SocketHub

• XMPP functionality basics seem to all working now
• needs more real life usage
• not tagged a release yet, needs some language changes
• will hopefully be tagged sometime next week
• XMPP extensions (XEPs) could be passed through Sockethub to Hyperchannel for first usage and prototyping, then actual implementation in Sockethub when more experience has been gained
• possible option to use BOSH instead of Sockethub when we see that Sockethub slows us down too much

Hyperchannel

• basics are working for both IRC and XMPP
• usable on mobile now
• needs proper onboarding
  • should be simple for a channel creator / foss project maintainer to create something for their project
• avatars for XMPP channels would be nice
• different grouping for channels and direct chat messaging would be nice

XMPP

• we have a (public) XMPP server running (using ejabberd) for kosmos.org
• first experience is really good

Summary: looks like most parts are already in place to get it to a state for public demo

Kredits

• UI has a pretty good setup
• Mmber frontend was worked on a lot, integration works pretty well now
• had some difficulties with the contracts
• blocking issue was trying to implement everything in the contract
• might be better to not have everything decentralized but move some of the stuff to the bot
  • would allow easier implementation by not have everything on-chain
• thinking about changing to automatically confirm smaller amounts after a certain time unless someone vetoed (which then would require an actual voting)
• bumi looked into Aragon OS for contracts (looking pretty good)
• bumi will update the wiki with his findings
• contributions have a token associated with it now (with additional metadata attached)
  • solves a lot of previous issues (e.g. for keeping voting rights and "cash" kredits separate)
• can be used for transparency already, can be made more decentralized later moving stuff to the smart contracts
  • coinsence.org:
    • by Karim from Cologne
    • they are trying to create a collaboration tool
    • they consider to use the kredits contract for their coin issuance and contribute back to it

Infrastructure

• Mastodon (kosmos.social) works quite well (updates are going smooth most of the time)
• see https://wiki.kosmos.org/infrastructure for details
• Kosmos Chef repo has been moved to Gitea (https://gitea.kosmos.org/kosmos/chef)
• needs a separate meeting about further and future infra work
• added Google Kubernetes Engine
• some stuff on andromeda is not maintained via Chef yet, because it was installed manually for more spontainious development
• also set up an IPFS cluster (for syncing pinnings) on both Hetzner boxes
• Gitea looks like the current best alternative to Github, that is an actual open source community project (in contrast to Gitlab)
• have some lightning network nodes (lnd, c-lightning) running for experimenting with payments
• moving everything to Gitea is blocked by CI atm (Travis only works with Github)

Future work

• Some open issues on github/67P/meta/issues
• Going to have separate meetings for each of the projects, with the main goal to get a proper roadmap for each
• We should prep for those meetings by triaging issues and document whatever we can until bumi is back to a timezone that makes meetings better for all of us (in about 2 weeks)