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meeting-notes/2025-01-21 standup notes.md

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+**​Date and Time:** 2025-01-21 09:30
+
+**Attendees**  
+**Present:** Björn, Gheorghe,  Ronny, Koen, Richard, Kevin  
+**Absent:** Nicolas(known), Hans (known), Robert(unknown)  
+
+* Koen
+	* Constructive discussion with Hans on the Matrix setup,  using Ansible & Docker for now. 
+	* Videoconf in Matrix is based on Element videocall & Jitsi. Older Matrix clients cannot us Element videocall & vice versa. So we need to make a choice & explain which clients to use related which videoconf backend. Something to keep in mind and to communicate. 
+	* Element the company is focussing on very large installs with their own Element Pro server (closed-source)
+	* Support on Matrix is probably left to us for small Matrix instances since Element has the focus on Enterprise. 
+	* So we need to gather more info on the usage of Matrix so that we can offer proper support. 
+	* Will pair Hans to finish up the last parts
+	* Will share MyProtagio docs with Ronny, could be helpful for the data model.
+	* Would like to discuss the proposed roadmap with Valentin. 
+	* With regards to the prototype: a form should be sent to a person that has the right protocols to follow, but it should not lead to a decision process. 
+
+* Kevin
+	* Continued a bit with the pixelfed server (loadbalancer) yesterday & will work on this today as well 
+
+* Richard 
+	* Worked on other projects yesterday
+
+* Ronny
+	* Had a chat with Valentin on the roadmap 
+	* Wondering about SSH keys; do we want to allow people access to machines? To be discussed. 
+	* Looking forward to myProtagio 
+
+* Gheorghe
+	* Had too many other obligations so could not join this standup yesterday.
+	* Will have a chat with Ronny today
+	* No blockers
+
+* Bjorn
+	* Is not available on Wednesday 
+	* Will take Thursday off after roadmap meeting
+	* Mostly worked on other obligations  

meeting-notes/2025-01-22.md

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+**Date:** 2025-01-22
+**Present:** Gheorghe, Eric, Hans, Kevin, Richard, Robert, Valentin
+**Not present:** Bjorn (announced), Nicolas (announced), Ronny (announced)​
+
+	* Richard
+		* no blockers, no updates
+	* Robert
+		* no updates, no blockers
+	* Valentin
+		* waiting for feedback on the demo roadmap proposal (not public yet)
+	* Eric
+		* no updates, no blockers
+		* will not be attending Fosdem
+	* Kevin
+		* building pixelfed loadbalancers
+		* will work on getting Daniel access to webnodes
+		* will work on mysql replication
+	* Hans
+		* no blockers
+		* hopes to hook up matrix stuff to proxmox
+	* Gheorghe
+		* no blockers
+		* working on internall stuff
+	* Koen
+		* Talked with a new engineer yesterday, soon to join the project
+		* Still have to give Ronny access to myprotagio repo for deriving a data model
+			* Valentin can help with the data modeling
+		* Planning to organise a sysadmin hackathon (the equivalent of OceanSprint but in Northern Europe) late spring

meeting-notes/2025-01-23 standup notes.md

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+​**Date and Time:** 2025-01-23 09:30  
+**Attendees**         
+**Present:** Björn, Gheorghe, Nicolas, Valentin, Eric, Hans, Robert, Kevin, Richard, Ronny, Koen  
+**Absent:** none 
+
+* Eric 
+	* No blockers
+	* Looks forward to roadmap 
+* Valentin
+	* Got some feedback from Koen 
+	* Published the roadmap proposal in a PR: https://git.fediversity.eu/Fediversity/meta/pulls/24
+	* Bjorn please add link to the website: https://discourse.nixos.org/t/zurich-24-11-zhf-hackathon-report/59250
+	* Would also be good to link the code from the website!
+	* Will try to debug the VPN access to be able to help iterating on the deployment workflow
+* Hans
+	* Made progress on provisioning a server automagically 
+	* Will hopefully finish today 
+* Gheorghe
+	* No blockers
+	* Worked on internal reports 
+* Nicolas
+	* No blockers 
+	* Looking forward to the roadmap discussion
+	* Will test splitting instances on Proxmox
+* Robert
+	* merged PR: https://github.com/nixops4/nixops4/pull/64
+	* This breaks NixOps and NixOS integration so keep on the current version, due to a minor rename
+* Kevin
+	* Continued with PixelFed server
+	* Granted D access to this
+* Richard  
+	* No blockers
+	* No updates 
+	* Will have some time for Fediversity tomorrow
+* Ronny
+	* No blockers 
+	* Will reserve time for the data model 
+* Bjorn
+	* Koen will add notes to repo
+	* Had other obligations no work done on Fediversity
+	* Will send out reminder to project partners 
+* Koen
+	* Had a chat with Valentin on the roadmap sketch 
+	* Had other meetings 

meeting-notes/2025-01-24 standup notes.md

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+**Date and Time:** 2025-01-24 09:30  
+**Attendees**  
+**Present:** Björn, Hans, Richard, Kevin, Ronny, Robert, Valentin  
+**Absent:** Koen (known), Nicolas (unknown),Gheorghe(unknown)  
+
+* Richard
+	* No blockers 
+	* No updates
+* Kevin 
+	* Worked a bit on Pixelfed infra 
+	* Shared  info with Dan
+	* MySQL is next. 
+	* Need some help from Richard with Nagios
+* Ronny
+	* Good meeting yesterday
+	* No updates & no blockers 
+* Hans
+	* No blockers
+	* Had other obligations yesterday
+	* Will finish up the setting Matrix deployment
+* Robert
+	* No updates 
+* Valentin 
+	* Wrote updates to the roadmap PR
+	* Will work on task breakdown with Nicolas
+    * Meeting with Ronny & Bjorn needs to be planned 
+* Bjorn
+	* Did some work on the outreach, see links in our Matrix channel 
+	* Worked a bit on the website navigation to make it easier on smaller screens & added link to our repo
+    * Today we have the project partners meeting & rest of the day not working on Fediversity

meeting-notes/2025-01-24-mvp-demo-roadmap.md

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+# Target: Demo at Fediforum online conference 2025-04-01
+
+This is a result of the [team discussion on 2025-01-23](https://git.fediversity.eu/Fediversity/intra/src/branch/main/2025-01-23-roadmap-discussion-fediforum.md).
+
+# Goal
+
+Demo the key aspects of Fediversity:
+1. One-click deployment of Fediverse services
+2. (stretch goal) One-click portability between hosting providers
+
+The point of the demo is to communicate:
+ - That the project extists, what it is about, how it's special, and that it's progressing towards its goals
+ - That this is the infrastructure you can use to provide a micro-cloud to end users
+ - The ultimate goal is infrastructure portability
+ - That we care about technological and economic sustainability
+ - For organisations that want to participate in the Fediverse, we may be a good partner
+
+Target audiences:
+- Peers, potential clients, policymakers
+- Hosting providers, organisations with sysadmins
+
+# Assumptions
+
+- There are ~47 (~9weeks) workdays between 27-01-2025 and 01-04-2025.
+
+- Demo users will use the Fediversity infrastructure.
+
+  There are a few things we have to hard-code for now, so the backend setup won't be easily adopted by others, and this isn't the goal for the demo.
+  Eventually we'll also need to describe the infrastructure one needs to run the whole thing.
+
+- At this point it's not clear if we'll manage to enable service portability.
+
+  Services ready to run on top of Garage: PeerTube, Mastodon, Pixelfed.
+  Making them portable is fairly involved though.
+
+  [Galene](https://github.com/jech/galene) doesn't have any state and only needs configuration files to be ported over.
+  But it doesn't have a NixOS service yet.
+  Likely we we'll only need the Nix expression once we have it.
+
+# User story 1: Deployment
+
+- Log in with NixPanel
+- Configure a DNS domain and select services to deploy
+- Observe a progress indicator
+- (optional) Get a notification when the process finishes
+- Check that the services are accessible under the configured domain
+
+# User story 2: Migration
+
+- Log in on a different instance of NixPanel
+- Create a migration token (e.g. callback URL)
+- Paste the token in the first instance and start migration
+- Observe a progress indicator
+- (optional) Get a notification when the process finishes
+- Check that the services run on the new instance
+
+# Roadmap
+
+* Set up a Django [CRM](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Customer_relationship_management) service ([as discussed 2024-11-06](./2024-11-06%20standup%20notes.md#working-session-architecture-discussion))
+ * Trigger NixOps4 on form submission:
+  * Requires a provider for the NixPanel to store deployment state and send progress updates
+  * Requires a Passbolt provider for dynamic secrets ([as discussed regarding secrets handling 2024-12-10](meeting-notes/2024-12-10-decision-making-meeting-dealing-with-secrets.md))
+  * First step: assume a fixed provisioned setup
+  * For (optional) migratio: VM provisioning will be handled via Ansible for now:
+    * A NixOps4 Terraform provider is currently planned but will not be ready in time
+* Rebrand MyProtagio to Fediversity
+  * Remove the intermediate registrar and register DNS domains ourselves
+  * Demo users will register an actual domain (and a bulk service package) using a voucher token
+
+# Next steps
+
+* Define:
+  * Detailed scope
+
+    Which components need which capabilities to fulfill the user stories?
+
+    Example:
+    - We need a Passbolt provider for NixOps4
+    - We need a CRM to be set up and running, ready for triggering deployments
+
+  * Specific division of labor
+
+    Who exactly is responsible for which compononents?
+    Which time capcities are available for each contributor?
+    
+    Example:
+    - Tweag: Valentin will do the data modeling, Nicolas will wire up deployment-related Nix code
+    - Procolix: Hans will help integrate the existing Ansible script to spin up VMs on demand
+    - Robert will develop a provider for NixOps4 to interact with the CRM
+
+  * Milestones (scheduled delivery of capabilities)
+
+    What are the component capabilities we can test together?
+    When can we provide these aggregate capabilities?
+
+    Example:
+    - Week 1: Spin up the CRM and configure a rudimentary data model
+    - Week 2: Let a fixed CRM user trigger NixOps to deploy a fixed config to a fixed existing VM
+    - Week 3: Configure SSH keys in the CRM, deploy to a fixed VM a NixOS config accessible with these keys
+    - ...
+
+  * Issues (granular tasks)
+
+    What exactly needs to be done to reach the milestones?
+
+    Example:
+    - Deploy CRM
+    - Add UI for selecting a service
+    - ...
+

meeting-notes/2025-01-27 standup notes.md

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+**Date and Time:** 2025-01-27 09:30
+
+**Attendees**   
+**Present:** Björn, Hans, Gheorghe, Kevin, Richard, Ronny  
+**Absent:** Koen(unknown), Valentin(unknown), Nicolas(known), Robert(known)  
+
+* Hans 
+	* No blockers 
+	* Still working on Matrix deployment 
+* Gheorghe
+	* No blockers
+	* Internal project management
+	* Might want to have a chat about how to deal with test/beta with Ronny 
+* Ronny 
+	* Rest of the week busy with Brussel (FOSDEM) 
+	* Not available Wed - Fr
+	* No  blockers 
+* Kevin
+	* Blocked on Pixelfed. Needs @Koen for caching / log server  info. 
+	* In the mean time will have a look at the Linstor 
+* Richard
+	* Working on getting proxmox on NixOS. 
+* Bjorn
+	* Will not be available on Friday 2025-01-31 and Monday 2025-02-03 due to FOSDEM
+	* Will work on creating a Fediversity presentation part of the mediapackage workpackage.     

meeting-notes/2025-01-27-decision-making-meeting-division-of-labor.md

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+# ​Roadmap planning session
+
+**Attendees:**
+**Present:** Björn, Valentin, Koen  
+
+## Agenda
+1. ~~Divide the work in 4 deliverables~~   
+2. Attach the right people to the right task  
+
+
+## Divsion of labor 
+Based on the ![architecture components](https://git.fediversity.eu/Fediversity/meta/src/branch/main/architecture-docs/architecture.png) 
+
+_Nixpanel / Nixpanel API_
+* Thijs - slick.nl 
+    * UI designer can build great UI's. Koen will ask him for a UI person for the coming 2 months. To help us develop the NixPanel UI. If this works Koen will ask them to continue working with us.
+* Lois (development) 
+	* will work on the NixPanel development side of things (Python/Django) 
+* Kiara (Nix/Python) 
+	* will work on interface between Nix and NixPanel
+* Valentin (Nix/Python consulting)
+
+_Identity Management / Central services_
+* Hans (Auth, DNS, Email)
+	* will work on the 'where are credentials stored' and how does this interface with python/NixPanel API.
+	* the DNS server infra
+    * the e-mail infra
+* Juerd? 
+
+_Orchestrator (new name: Gardener tbc)_
+* Robert 
+    * NixOps core development 
+
+_Central Database_ 
+First determine the rough overview in a smaller group. Adjust the group accordingly after this.  
+* Ronny 
+    * supporting us with data model
+* Eric 
+    * supporting us with data model)
+* Koen 
+    * product owner
+* Valentin 
+    * intermediate between NixOps - Central Database and the wiring between the 'Orchestrator' and the NixOS VM's   
+
+_'Wiring between Orchestrator -> NixOS VMs'_
+* Nicholas 
+    * making services available as NixOS packages 
+* Kevin
+    * Hardware/VMs/Storage support 
+* Valentin 
+    * intermediate between NixOps - Central Database and the wiring between the 'Orchestrator' and the NixOS VM's   
+
+_Hardware/Virtualisation/Storage_
+* Richard 
+    * Offering support & knowledge on hardware, virtualisation and storage 
+* Kevin
+    * Offering support & knowledge on hardware, virtualisation and storage 
+
+* Koen 
+    * will take care of management and is overall productowner.   
+* Bjorn
+    * will 'grease the machine' and support the team
+
+## Actions 
+@Bjorn: make sure people have access to Forgejo.     
+@Bjorn: divide Epic1 ('Phase 1) into user stories and create issues, add them to the right names and milestones (label: user story).  Then refine with the team   
+
+### References:
+* Roadmap/planning internal  
+    * Forgejo milestones: 
+    https://git.fediversity.eu/Fediversity/Fediversity/milestones?state=open&q=MVP
+	* MVP Roadmap: 
+    https://git.fediversity.eu/Fediversity/meta/src/branch/main/meeting-notes/2025-01-24-mvp-demo-roadmap.md
+	* Architecture: 
+    https://git.fediversity.eu/Fediversity/meta/src/branch/main/architecture-docs/architecture.png

meeting-notes/2025-01-28 standup notes.md

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+**Date and Time:** 2025-01-28 09:30  
+**Attendees**  
+**Present:** Björn, Hans, Richard, Gheorghe, Koen, Ronny, Lois, Eric, Robert Valentin
+**Absent:** Nicolas (known) 
+
+
+* Lois
+	* newly started on this project (Django) 
+* Kevin
+	* Continued on the Pixelfed instance
+	* Unblocked by Koen on (logging & cache) 
+	* Will work on this today as well.
+* Eric
+	* No blockers 
+	* Will reach out to the devs after Fosdem for the data model
+* Ronny
+	* Updated Eric on what we would like him to do
+	* Will work on the architecture & data model after fosdem
+	* Asked a DPIA during a council meeting for 15+ schools.  Might be that there is no Safe-Harbour Act anymore after 38 days (https://noyb.eu/en/us-cloud-soon-illegal-trump-punches-first-hole-eu-us-data-deal). This could have a positive impact on our project as well.
+* Robert
+	* Might want to divde the nixops integration with nixos into a seperate repo.
+* Hans
+	* No updates
+	* No blockers 
+	* Other obligations 
+* Gheorghe
+	* No blockers 
+	* some delays internally. Meeting after Fosdem
+	* We are working on the beta deliverable (spiral timeline vs waterfall) 
+* Koen
+	* Signed contract with new dev (Kiara) 
+	* Slick.nl (Thijs) is on-board and wants to help us with UI. 
+	* Need to discuss if Slick wants to work as sub-contractor or as a partner with Nordunet/Moduscreate/OID
+	* Lois has joined us! 
+	* Procolix will become the Nextcloud platinium partner in the Benelux
+	* Planning to go live with Pixelfed on Thursday (before Fosdem) 
+	* Will work today on Linstore which broke. Lessons are learned
+	* Podcast creator is working on Fediverse, opensource, steward ownership companies. Will talk with him all Wednesday afternoon. 
+* Richard
+	* No blockers
+	* No updates 
+* Valentin 
+	* Meeting yesterday 
+	* Will spin up a Django service on NixOS. 
+* Bjorn 
+    * Had a great meeting yesterday in which we were able to put names on certain aspects of the architecture.
+    * Will add notes for this meeting to the repo asap
+    * Continue working on Fediversity presentation
+    * Less available today due to other obligations.

meeting-notes/2025-01-29 standup notes.md

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+**Date and Time:** 2025-01-29 09:30
+**Attendees**  
+**Present:** Björn, Hans, Eric, Richard, Kevin, Richard, Robert  
+**Absent:** Nicolas (known), Ronny(known),  Lois (known), Valentin (known), Koen(known)  
+
+
+* Hans
+	* Other obligations than Fediversity
+	* Wll continue working on automatic provisioning Matrix
+	* Hans: Valentin will explain nixos deployment,  looking forward to it
+* Eric
+	* No plans for Fediversity 
+	* Will reach out devs after Fosdem
+* Gheorghe
+	* No blockers
+	* internal project management 
+* Richard
+	* No blockers 
+	* Will be at the data center this afternoon, not reachable
+* Kevin 
+	* Yesterday: worked on fixing the linstore. Continue to document on how we fixed this & we will setup a test environment to get more insights on Linstore
+* Robert
+	* Working  on the seperate nixops4-nixos repo. Moving stuff around ahead of FOSDEM 
+	* Fosdem presentation, will re-use the Zurich presentation with some tweaks.  
+* Bjorn 
+ Yesterday:  
+	* Sent an email to Fediform (1-2 April) with our proposal for a demo and presentation
+	* Finalised the notes of the roadmap session 
+	* Private obligations
+ Today:    
+	* Continue on a presentation Nordunet can use to explain Fediversity to their stakeholders so they might join us for a beta. We can re-use this "Fediversity basics' presentation for other events such as Fediforum etc as well 
+	* Preparing for FOSDEM 
+	* Q: Do we want to send in a Lghtning talk proposal for Geant TNC conference 9-13 June 2025? The Call for Proposals for Lightning Talks, Bofs, Demos and the Community Hub will open 5 February 2025.

meeting-notes/2025-01-30 standup notes.md

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+**​Date and Time:** 2025-01-30 09:30 
+
+**Attendees**  
+**Present:** Björn, Gheorghe, Ronny, Nicolas, Kevin, Koen, Richard,Eric, Robert  
+**Absent:** Valentin(known), Lois(known), Hans(known)
+    
+* Nicolas
+	* No blockers 
+	* Promox works perfectly again
+	* Needs some help from Kevin for the CI/CD machine
+	* Will work on cleanup PR & update pixelfed
+
+* Eric 
+	* Available 
+
+* Kevin
+	* Not much done on Fediversity. 
+	* A bit under the weather 
+	* Will work with Nicolas for the CI/CD machine
+	* Did some work on Pixelfed caching, contiune today
+ 
+* Ronny
+	* No blockers
+	* No updates
+ 
+* Koen
+	* Procolix has some good news in relation to Nextcloud (Wednesday more details will be released)
+	* Want to release the press release for Pixelfed today
+	* Tomorrow Procolix will release a 'sovereign' IT package with services like Mastodon, Pixelfed, Nextcloud. 
+	* Students will share their work on how to promote Loops on Feb 11th. 
+	* When Loops is released as opensource we will release another instance that federates with the other instance. 
+	* Maybe add more Fediverse services to offer as flagships. Need to check with planning/budget. 
+	* Made contact with Nextcloud & talked about their open, local-first AI model. There might be possibilities there. 
+	* Spoke with a podcast creator who is working on a podcast on OpenSource, hackers etc.
+* Robert
+	* nixops4-nixos repo is almost ready (instead of the prev branch) 
+	* Will leave for Fosdem tomorrow 
+	* No blockers 
+	* Will go to cfgmgtcamp after Fosdem.
+* Richard 
+	* Had a day at the datacenter 
+	* No updates 
+	* No blockers 
+* Gheorghe
+	* No blockers 
+	* internel project management
+* Bjorn
+    * worked on the press release for pixelfed flagship 
+    * other obligations
+    * today: work a bit on Fediverse 101 presentation
+    * Will not attending standup tomorrow due Fosdem traveling