**31 December 2025, 12:00 CET / 22:00 AEDT**
Attendants: Adam
Absent: Mathew, Nils, Mathias, Jan, Nancy
Update
Adam:
\- emailed Kyle re title change & IT Addendum people & query
\- Drafting Action plan items
12:12 CET: Optimistic to hold meeting on NYE, meeting cancelled.
12:15 EOM
**26 December 2025, 12:00 CET / 22:00 AEDT**
Attendants: Adam, Nancy, Nick (guest), Mathew (arrived 45 minutes later)
Apologies: Jan
Absent: Mathew, Nils, Mathias
**Agenda**
**1\. update Kyle's initial list of topics**
1. ~CNCI SIG Naming~ majority vote: CNI - Community Network Infrastructures
2. IT Addendum for Access to SIG email and Zoom Accounts (Adam still TODO)
3. Branding
4. Webpage/Community Portal (Nancy has placed sample SIG images on NC)
5. Budget (Goals need development before budget)
6. Spending Budget (see above)
7. Fundraising
3-7 need to align with SIG goals - review from application and refine
Priority: landing page text & manifesto (Adam/Nancy TODO)
**20 December 2025**
_In attendance -_ Adam Burns, Nancy Mauro-Flude, Mathias Jud, Jan Hendrik Brueggemeier, Mathew Lubari, \[**apologies -** Neils Brock\]
**_Next meeting dates -_** 26th 12 cet / 22hrs AEST
**Discussion / to dos**
**Tactical Action Plan 2026-7**
What does CNI SIG do that both builds on and differentiated from [https://www.internetsociety.org/our-work/connectivity/](https://www.internetsociety.org/our-work/connectivity/)?
Intially scoping CNI projects - comparative analsysis pain points what can we learn?
**Name** Community Networks Infrastructures CNI
**Nextcloud Resources** [https://nextcloud.networkcommons.org/index.php/s/2eN8zTsTHmtSxje](https://nextcloud.networkcommons.org/index.php/s/2eN8zTsTHmtSxje)
**Regular meeting time 2026 - Stammtisch**
|[Melbourne](https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/australia/melbourne "Current Local Time in Melbourne") (Australia – Victoria)|\\ 10:00:00 pm|[AEDT](https://www.timeanddate.com/time/zones/aedt "Australian Eastern Daylight Time")|UTC+11 hours|
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[https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/meetingdetails.html?year=2025&month=12&day=19&hour=11&min=0&sec=0&p1=152&p2=37&p3=115](https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/meetingdetails.html?year=2025&month=12&day=19&hour=11&min=0&sec=0&p1=152&p2=37&p3=115)
_Agenda 17.12.26_
**1. Kyle's initial list of topics**
* CNCI SIG Naming
* IT Addendum for Access to SIG email and Zoom Accounts (gateway to all social media accounts)
* Branding
* Webpage/Community Portal
* Budget
* Spending Budget
* Fundraising
**2\. Our Goals for this SIG and how to implement them.**
* Goals
* Decentralized & Participative SIG
* Implementation suggestions
* Having working groups on important topics
* Develop a specific event that we can suggest to Communities around the world
* to get structured feedback about:
* to find about import topics for these groups
* to be able to create working groups
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* to create things (e.g. something like a hackathon)
* Having regular community meeting calls Wednesdays
3\. Coming year's actions, budgets and outcomes
4\. AOB - existing matrix channel for comms.
**1.1. Discussion long name CNCI SIG Naming**
Community Networks Community Infrastructures CNCI
* alternative suggestions:
* CNCI CN\_CI CNCI CN&CI
* Community Networks & Infrastructures CN&I
* Community Network Infrastructures CN. Friday
* Community Infrastructures CI
Adam: CNI
Nancy: CNI
Mathias: CNCI
Niels: CNI
Jan: CNI (first) CNCI (second thought ;)
Matthew: CNCI
CNI - To be discussed further Friday consensus reached.
**1.2. IT Addendum for Access to SIG email and Zoom Accounts (gateway to all social media accounts)**
Outcome: Mathias (Team Member), Matthew (Vice Facilitator) & Nancy (Secretary), Jan (Member) also request access
**1.3. Branding** Great to have a logo designed for us! <3 \\0/
**1.4. Webpage/Community Portal** Need to start drafting material for portal.Goes Live 2026
_Nancy voluntered to draft initial words and stuff!_ [https://www.internetsociety.org/sigs](https://www.internetsociety.org/sigs)
DRAFT IS HERE [https://pad.dyne.org/doc/#/2/doc/edit/2iX989E-mDphw9mChxeUwXrc/](https://pad.dyne.org/doc/#/2/doc/edit/2iX989E-mDphw9mChxeUwXrc/)
**1.5. Budget**
CNI SIG will be allocated a budget of $15k for the year, which can be leveraged for various purposes, such as hosting events, conducting research, guest speaker fees, printing, swag, and captioning/translation. What we cannot use the funds for is Travel. So, no stipends for accommodations, planes, transportation, and automobiles. Here is a generic a[ction](https://isoc.box.com/s/swy4gl9oree9ivb1filh8c91fq7ggzvl "https://isoc.box.com/s/swy4gl9oree9ivb1filh8c91fq7ggzvl") p[lan](https://isoc.box.com/s/swy4gl9oree9ivb1filh8c91fq7ggzvl "https://isoc.box.com/s/swy4gl9oree9ivb1filh8c91fq7ggzvl") t[emplate](https://isoc.box.com/s/swy4gl9oree9ivb1filh8c91fq7ggzvl "https://isoc.box.com/s/swy4gl9oree9ivb1filh8c91fq7ggzvl") that you can use. It is up to you how in-depth you go, but High-level is fine.
Nancy: a plan is needed
Mathias:
Adam: action plan
**2.1. Our Goals for this SIG and how to implement them**
* LOCNet meeting in Feb
* IETF GAIA reach-out
* Map all existing ISOC CN initiatives & people on CNI space
* Action Budgets and outcomes timeline (shared document for working group to make some note for comparison for future plans)
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proposed activities.