Call Saturday at 4pm EST

Fine by me. How about we address the following:
- who's our "target" (eg. will it be a coop-only instance or will it be free for all?)
- what's our goal
- how we want to measure that goal
- what are the tech hurdles (if any)
- estimated cost

Maybe it's the corporate UX designer in me, but these seem like good starting points :)

Saw this posted on Masto and figured it could be of use to the more tech oriented for figuring how much effort setting up a node will take: https://blog.travisbriggs.com/setting-up-your-own-mastodon-with-digital-ocean-and-docker-29e633d354f2

Sounds like a great start. I've looked over the technical details, and all looks pretty straightforward, nothing I haven't done before.

In terms of target I'd suggest members only, and as a main goal setting up and running as a prototype coop (figuring out org. structure, guiding documents, collaborative & transparent admin models for infrastructure/funds/moderation/etc), that other groups could then easily replicate to create extra nodes (better to scale-out rather than needing to scale-up our node too much) and even for other federated networks/platforms in the future.

PS. the fediverse is growing rapidly right now, we need to act quickly! https://mnm.eliotberriot.com/dashboard/db/mastodon-network-overview

Also, for each topic that comes up during the call requiring a decision, I suggest we all present our points of view, but that even if there's a consensus, that we then post each one as a proposal on Loomio.

After the call we could all invite some of our contacts + maybe post to social networks about this initiative, so we can involve more (semi-vetted) interested parties in the discussion and decision-making.

I've created a google doc for a living agenda/minutes of the meeting, which can be found here. I've added Michele's agenda items to it: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1NpBqZlt0h1kfA-dB7dPgcSToCk8PbKkOigb3R5kSFGc/edit?usp=sharing