2025-03-17 - Board Meeting

Board members present (3/3):

• CJ Trowbridge

• Julia Heim

• Joe Whisher

Financial Report

• Approximate balance of accounts, including pending transactions and estimates of pending fees.

  • General Unrestricted Funds

    • Balance is $172

  • Cyberpony Express Funds

    • Received $4,065 in donations so far.

    • Fiscal sponsorship will take 7%.

    • Board voted to spend $307 on lora nodes to give out for free at the first workshop.

    • Balance is about $3,473.45

  • Land Acquisition Funds

    • Received $1,872 in donations so far.

    • Fiscal sponsorship will take 7%.

    • Balance is about $1,740.96

Board Votes

• Board voted to spend up to $500 on initial builds that come out of the upcoming hardware strategy/development ad hoc

• Board voted to buy two Lilygo T-Decks; one for Joe and one for Julia to do content development and to demonstrate the technology to their organizations

Cyberpony Express Workshop Recap

• Discussed how it went, see separate post about that.

Cyberpony Express Disatches/Podcast

• We will host zoom workshops about various aspects of the project. These will be recorded and published on youtube as a sort of podcast about the state of the project.

  • Zoom Links will be posted on discord for those who want to join. Session will be live streamed on TikTok and recordings posted on YouTube.

  • 2025-03-27 - 7pm (PDT) - 9pm - Hardware Strategy/Development

    • Topics covered include node types, build lists, educational content strategy, and opportunities for custom hardware development.

  • 2025-04-03 - 7pm (PDT) - 9pm - Siting

    • Topics covered include how and where we want to site the different types of nodes.

  • 2025-04-10 - 7pm (PDT) - 9pm - BBS/ Librarian

    • Topics covered include current Meshtastic BBS projects and the goals for this project, including: LLM/RAG integration, long-distance option.

    • Flyer for sharing: