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Date

28 Apr 2021

Participants

Past Action items

  • Status update to @kristin and product roadmap to public

  • Exploring open-source Kanban (Github, others…)

  • @Eddie Brown Circle back with Executive Director position

Discussion topics

Item

Person

Notes

Kanban

  • No great solutions for open source

  • Migrating to Github; It meets our needs, especially with the level of detail we need for new volunteers

Gitbook

  • We have open source approval and will not need to pay for Github

Digital Ocean

  • Awarded $1000 in funds for PDAP

Scrapers/Product

  • New data_type table name to allow intake (base table)

    • Arrest reports, etc.

  • Helping gather databases and organizing what that we need to scrape

Club House

Other Help/Funding source

  • Paperwork from IRS is required to go forward

Security

  • Secrets management from Keeper

    • PK management

    • Good enterprise solution/easy to use

  • Working to apply for wildcard cert for website security badge

  • VPN: Very important to maintain security as our group grows. It is another layer of security.

    • Wireguard VPN: high technical barrier

    • Wirespeed VPN: $5/cpu/month

      • working through limitations with our 2 data centers: 1 NY/ 1 SFO

        • currently we require 2 VPN for each data center

      • alternative is to migrate data to one center for simplicity

  • Looking to grow security team

Database Update

    • Support

    • Track records

    • Stable

    • Dolt had blocks and we have moved away

  • Interested in modeling

  • Looking into containerization for scrapers

    • A way for us to allow others to donate computing resources to extract data using scrapers

    • Makes it more difficult to block us

Executive Director

@Eddie Brown

  • No response from candidates

  • Moving on for the time being

A&P

@Eddie Brown

  • A&P charged $900 for non-profit incorperation

Action items

is close to having a working data schema; closer to saying yes to data

Postgre SQL database setup sent to

List organization in Amazon employee volunteer portal

Continue to engage w/ Patrick about fundraising

Club House feedback from Kristin

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