# 2021-04-28 Leadership Cadence

## Date <a href="#id-2021-04-28leadershipcadence-date" id="id-2021-04-28leadershipcadence-date"></a>

28 Apr 2021

## Participants <a href="#id-2021-04-28leadershipcadence-participants" id="id-2021-04-28leadershipcadence-participants"></a>

[Alec Akin](https://pdap.atlassian.net/wiki/people/60319bf02a42cc0069af9ac8?ref=confluence)

[Josh Chamberlain](https://pdap.atlassian.net/wiki/people/6068f9e790e3950069fbaaf4?ref=confluence)

[Richard Ji](https://pdap.atlassian.net/wiki/people/5f8f95be0e068b00766b6903?ref=confluence)

[Will Beaumont](https://pdap.atlassian.net/wiki/people/5e9c6021ca2a1d0c2e249bab?ref=confluence)

## Past Action items <a href="#id-2021-04-28leadershipcadence-pastactionitems" id="id-2021-04-28leadershipcadence-pastactionitems"></a>

* [Josh Chamberlain](https://pdap.atlassian.net/wiki/people/6068f9e790e3950069fbaaf4?ref=confluence) Status update to @kristin and product roadmap to public
* [Josh Chamberlain](https://pdap.atlassian.net/wiki/people/6068f9e790e3950069fbaaf4?ref=confluence) Exploring open-source Kanban (Github, others…)
* @Eddie Brown Circle back with Executive Director position

## Discussion topics <a href="#id-2021-04-28leadershipcadence-discussiontopics" id="id-2021-04-28leadershipcadence-discussiontopics"></a>

| **Item**                  | **Person**                                                                                                                                                                                                                  | **Notes**                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    |
| ------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Kanban                    | [Josh Chamberlain](https://pdap.atlassian.net/wiki/people/6068f9e790e3950069fbaaf4?ref=confluence)                                                                                                                          | <ul><li>No great solutions for open source</li><li>Migrating to Github; It meets our needs, especially with the level of detail we need for new volunteers</li></ul>                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         |
| Gitbook                   | [Josh Chamberlain](https://pdap.atlassian.net/wiki/people/6068f9e790e3950069fbaaf4?ref=confluence)                                                                                                                          | <ul><li>We have open source approval and will not need to pay for Github</li></ul>                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           |
| Digital Ocean             | [Alec Akin](https://pdap.atlassian.net/wiki/people/60319bf02a42cc0069af9ac8?ref=confluence)                                                                                                                                 | <ul><li>Awarded $1000 in funds for PDAP</li></ul>                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            |
| Scrapers/Product          | [Josh Chamberlain](https://pdap.atlassian.net/wiki/people/6068f9e790e3950069fbaaf4?ref=confluence)                                                                                                                          | <ul><li><p>New data\_type table name to allow intake (base table)</p><ul><li>Arrest reports, etc.</li></ul></li><li><a href="https://pdap.atlassian.net/wiki/people/6069da262b469c007014d7fa?ref=confluence">Eric Turner</a> is close to having a working data schema; closer to saying yes to data</li><li>Helping gather databases and organizing what that we need to scrape</li></ul>                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    |
| Club House                | [Alec Akin](https://pdap.atlassian.net/wiki/people/60319bf02a42cc0069af9ac8?ref=confluence)                                                                                                                                 |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              |
| Other Help/Funding source | [Alec Akin](https://pdap.atlassian.net/wiki/people/60319bf02a42cc0069af9ac8?ref=confluence)                                                                                                                                 | <ul><li>Paperwork from IRS is required to go forward</li></ul>                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               |
| Security                  | <p><a href="https://pdap.atlassian.net/wiki/people/60319bf02a42cc0069af9ac8?ref=confluence">Alec Akin</a></p><p><a href="https://pdap.atlassian.net/wiki/people/5f8f95be0e068b00766b6903?ref=confluence">Richard Ji</a></p> | <ul><li><p>Secrets management from Keeper</p><ul><li>PK management</li><li>Good enterprise solution/easy to use</li></ul></li><li>Working to apply for wildcard cert for website security badge</li><li><p>VPN: Very important to maintain security as our group grows. It is another layer of security.</p><ul><li>Wireguard VPN: high technical barrier</li><li><p>Wirespeed VPN: $5/cpu/month</p><ul><li><p>working through limitations with our 2 data centers: 1 NY/ 1 SFO</p><ul><li>currently we require 2 VPN for each data center</li></ul></li><li>alternative is to migrate data to one center for simplicity</li></ul></li></ul></li><li>Looking to grow security team</li></ul> |
| Database Update           | [Richard Ji](https://pdap.atlassian.net/wiki/people/5f8f95be0e068b00766b6903?ref=confluence)                                                                                                                                | <ul><li><p>Postgre SQL database setup sent to <a href="https://pdap.atlassian.net/wiki/people/6069da262b469c007014d7fa?ref=confluence">Eric Turner</a></p><ul><li>Support</li><li>Track records</li><li>Stable</li><li>Dolt had blocks and we have moved away</li></ul></li><li>Interested in modeling</li><li><p>Looking into containerization for scrapers</p><ul><li>A way for us to allow others to donate computing resources to extract data using scrapers</li><li>Makes it more difficult to block us</li></ul></li></ul>                                                                                                                                                            |
| Executive Director        | @Eddie Brown                                                                                                                                                                                                                | <ul><li>No response from candidates</li><li>Moving on for the time being</li></ul>                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           |
| A\&P                      | @Eddie Brown                                                                                                                                                                                                                | <ul><li>A\&P charged $900 for non-profit incorperation</li></ul>                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             |

## Action items <a href="#id-2021-04-28leadershipcadence-actionitems" id="id-2021-04-28leadershipcadence-actionitems"></a>

* [Will Beaumont](https://pdap.atlassian.net/wiki/people/5e9c6021ca2a1d0c2e249bab?ref=confluence) List organization in Amazon employee volunteer portal
* [Alec Akin](https://pdap.atlassian.net/wiki/people/60319bf02a42cc0069af9ac8?ref=confluence) Continue to engage w/ Patrick about fundraising
* [Alec Akin](https://pdap.atlassian.net/wiki/people/60319bf02a42cc0069af9ac8?ref=confluence) Club House feedback from Kristin


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