Meeting Notes: Feb 8, 2019

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

Agenda

Welcome
Find a scribe
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)
Plan project-specific meetings, with the aim of creating detailed roadmaps
Summary and action items

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

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

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

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

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)

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)