IRC log of #jetrowebdev for Monday, 2025-12-01

dcammueGood morning svaye 11:55
svayeGood morning dcammue 11:55
thomasboimahGood morning dcammue and svaye 11:56
svayeGood morning thomasboimah 11:57
jelknerI made plans for Decidim meetings for NOVASEN.12:00
jelknerACTION done12:00
thomasboimahThursday, zOnny and I successfully accessed both the MayFirst and Linode servers. We found that CIDU's website is actually hosted on Linode, not MayFirst, and we reset the passwords and set up SSH access for future use. Today, I will work on the task zOnny gave me to improve the LibreOrganize blog app. No blocker.12:00
thomasboimahACTION done12:00
svayeWe visited our office space on Saturday and made the payment. I have classes today. no blockers12:00
svayeACTION done12:01
jelknersvaye, does that mean you have the place?12:01
svayeYes jelkner 12:01
jelknerYEA!!!!!!12:01
jelknerThat's *GREAT* news!12:01
svayeWe plan to move in this month12:02
jelknerWhen this month?12:02
svayeThe middle of this month, lets say the fifteen12:02
jelknerexcellent, that's 2 weeks12:02
dcammueDuring the weekend,  I read on the 'TheAccountingGame '  and jetroweb also went out to take onto her first biggest step by getting an office space for herself.  Meanwhile,  jeteroweb did the payment for the office on Saturday. Thanks to jetroweb.  12:03
dcammueACTION done12:03
jelknerso let's talk about the office12:03
jelknerand then i have to go12:03
dcammueSorry I was attending some things ease12:03
jelknerdo you have any pictures?12:03
dcammueOK 12:03
dcammueI will email you all the pictures and video12:04
jelknerNot email dcammue 12:04
jelknerthat's not a good idea12:04
dcammueI will pur it in Nextcloud 12:04
mulbahHello everyone12:04
dcammueAnd email12:04
svayejelkner, you are on telegram right?12:04
jelknerPut them on Jetro's Nextcloud drive12:04
jelknerand share them with me12:04
jelkneror, now that you know how12:04
dcammueI am trying to get to my ssh directory 12:04
mulbahsorry I'm late12:04
jelkneryes, that's the best12:04
dcammueBut I am blocking on it12:04
jelkneri can then scp them all at once12:05
jelknerask thomasboimah for help12:05
dcammueOK 12:05
jelknerit is time for me to start blogging again12:05
jelknerThe last time i posted was almost a year ago12:06
jelknerhttps://weblog.elkner.net/blog/80/12:06
dcammueYes12:06
jelknerSo much has happened since them12:06
jelkners/them/then ;-)12:06
svayeI would love to learn more about blogging when you get here next year jelkner 12:06
jelknersvaye, we should ask thomasboimah to set you up with our blogging tool12:07
jelknerwhich NOVA Web wrote12:07
jelknerwe could get thomasboimah and zOnny to modify it a bit12:07
jelknerfor you to use12:07
jelkneri would love to see that12:07
svayeIt would be wonderful to write a blog about the journey of Jetroweb12:08
jelkner+1!12:08
jelknerand it would help a lot to promote the business too12:08
jelknerso it serves two very important purposes at once12:08
svaye+112:08
jelknerit provides useful information that our solidarity economy comrades can learn from12:09
jelknerand it provides a way to tell our story to others who might be interested in what we are doing and want to support us12:09
svayethomasboimah, can we start with that this week?12:09
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tboimah_sure12:10
jelknersvaye, can we discuss it next weekend?12:10
tboimah_jelkner, 12:10
jelknerwe need zOnny in on the discussion12:10
tboimah_I have a question to ask you12:10
jelknerask away my friend ;-)12:10
svayeSure jelkner 12:10
tboimah_At Nova web who pay for the server? the customer or the coop?12:10
tboimah_zOnny send me NO12:11
jelknerThat is a *great* question, tboimah_ 12:11
tboimah_Nova web contract 12:11
jelknerand i have to give you a rather long answer12:11
tboimah_That i will be looking at today12:11
jelknerdcammue, this is very important for you to pay attention to12:11
jelknerwhen stefan and adrian ran things, they wanted to host the servers ourselves12:12
jelkneri was never happy with that, and i told them so12:12
jelkneri felt that we were too small a business to take on that responsibility12:12
jelknerit encumbered us in ways we didn't want to be encumbered12:13
jelknerthey were young, and i was old12:13
jelknerLOL, and i think in this case, i was right and they were wrong ;-)12:13
jelknerbut they were running things12:13
jelknerso we ended up hosting a lot of servers12:13
jelknerwe didn't know what we were doing12:13
jelknerso we never even billed for them12:13
jelknerso what happened?12:14
jelkneri ended up having to pay for htem12:14
jelknerthem12:14
jelknerafter stefan and adrian left12:14
jelknermonth after month12:14
jelkneri paid fees for servers12:14
jelknerit was *horrible* from a business point of view12:14
jelknerso in reboot 412:14
jelkneri said "NOT AGAIN!"12:14
jelknernow we can still use Linode12:15
jelknerbut the customer has to own the server12:15
jelknerand receive the bill12:15
jelknerwe can do the set up for them12:15
jelknerthat's what we do, provide service12:15
jelknerbut we don't provide the hosting12:15
jelknerthomasboimah, dcammue it is still your task to finish that process12:16
jelkneri bet we still have some servers that we are paying for12:16
jelknerthat's money that could go to you12:16
jelknerbut instead, is flushed down the toilet each month since we don't know how to run our business12:16
jelknermake sense?12:16
thomasboimahzOnny told me on Thursday that Some clients have reached out asking Nova about the invoice 12:17
jelkneryes thomasboimah, they want to pay12:17
thomasboimahYou know about that?12:17
jelknerbut we don't know how to bill!!!!!!12:17
jelkner"knowing how to bill" means that there is someone whose job it is to send an invoice, collect payment, and manage our books12:17
jelknerwe don't have that12:17
jelknerYET12:17
thomasboimahjelkner, This should be Kei work right?12:18
jelknerwe are about to12:18
jelknerdcammue and svaye 12:18
svayeyes jelkner 12:18
jelkneryes thomasboimah, workking with kei12:18
dcammue+112:18
jelknerKei has been trying12:18
jelknerbut as you know12:18
jelknershe works for the cleaning co-op12:18
jelknerso much of the time she is cleaning houses and offices12:18
jelknerand can't be on her computer12:19
jelknershe needs to do that12:19
jelknersince she needs to eat12:19
thomasboimahgot you12:19
jelknersadly, NOVA Web does not bring in revenue12:19
jelknerto sustain her12:19
jelknerwe need to change that12:19
jelknerlike i have told you a number of times12:19
jelknerbut i'm glad to see it will make more and more sense as your experience grows12:20
svayeI could work on the invoices if I have enough on what we are billing for12:20
jelkneri believe we can make this reboot work12:20
svaye*information12:20
jelknerbut i also think that to support workers like kei and tony and zOnny12:20
jelknerwe need to be able to charge U.S. rates12:20
jelknerthey need to pay more than $2000 each month for rent here12:21
jelkneri think Decidim will be our only way to do that12:21
thomasboimahWow!12:21
jelkneryes, thomasboimah, you all will learn about international finance12:22
jelknersince you are part of a global business12:22
thomasboimahTo live in the US is expensive12:22
thomasboimahIn Liberia even 10USD can get you room12:22
jelknerhttps://www.apartments.com/arlington-va/?bb=oj6qjin00H3zs6O&&msclkid=da85607240ed11d25bce095fc86847d4&gclsrc=ds&gad_source=7&gad_campaignid=2217606756612:22
jelknercan you see this?12:23
svayeyes12:23
thomasboimah+112:23
jelknerwe will be having a lot of discussions around this12:24
gabriel_jetro+112:24
jelknerpart of what happened in the late 20th century was that jobs left the U.S. and headed to China12:24
jelknerwhy?12:24
jelknerbecause labor was *much* cheaper in China12:24
jelknerwe are in the same situation12:24
jelknerNOVA Web can help Jetro Web prosper12:25
jelknerbecause we can charge much lower rates using your labor12:25
jelknerand since we are in tech12:25
jelkneryou can do web development from anywhere12:25
jelknerthat is a crucial part of our business plan12:25
jelknereven if NOVA Web can't "make it"12:26
jelknerwhich means finding contracts that pay enough for Kei and Tony and zOnny to live12:26
jelknerwe can keep a one person staff whose only job it will be to manage contracts for you all12:27
jelknerso we can keep Jetro funded with jobs here12:27
jelknera lot of those jobs can't contract with a Liberian company12:27
jelknerbut they won't12:27
jelknerthey will contract with NOVA Web, who will subcontract with Jetro Web12:27
jelknermake sense?12:27
thomasboimah+112:27
svayeyes12:28
dcammue+112:28
mulbah+112:28
gabriel_jetro+112:28
thomasboimahjelkner, 12:28
jelkneri hope we can also get Decidim jobs with municipal governments (cities and towns) here12:28
thomasboimahThe last question please12:28
svayeThat's the job of a business manager right jelkner 12:28
jelkneryes, svaye!12:28
jelknerthat's the job of the business manager12:28
jelknerquickly thomasboimah 12:29
thomasboimahIs it hard to get customer in the US?12:29
jelknerit is not hard to get customers for you, thomasboimah 12:29
jelknerit will be easy12:29
jelknerwe did it in each of the other reboots12:29
svayejelkner, do you want us to look for companies that are willing to collaborate with us?12:29
jelknerwe always found customers12:29
jelknerbut they didn't pay enough for us to live here12:30
jelknerthey did pay enough for you to live there12:30
jelknersvaye, i'm going to be there from June 22nd to July 19th12:30
jelknerthe reason i want to spend a month with you is so that we can have those kinds of conversations12:30
jelknerfirst, let's get our skills up12:31
jelknerwe aren't ready12:31
jelknerwe need to be "pros"12:31
jelknerand we're not12:31
jelknerwe're getting closer all the time12:31
jelknerthomasboimah is making huge progress by working with zOnny12:31
jelknerand dcammue is making progress in his study of bookkeeping12:32
jelknerbut we aren't there yet12:32
jelknermake sense?12:32
thomasboimah+112:32
thomasboimahThanks for the insight jelkner.12:32
jelknerokie dokie12:32
jelknerlet's meet again on wednesday12:32
dcammueYes12:32
jelknerthomasboimah, please help dcammue and svaye get some pictures on the postgresql server12:33
jelknerso i can copy them from there12:33
thomasboimahOkay12:33
jelkneri'm eager to see the new place!12:33
thomasboimahAlright12:33
jelknerand to start planning on getting it set up for Jetro to really start working12:33
jelknersee you wednesday...12:33
jelknerACTION signs off until wednesday12:34
gabriel_jetroSure, have a nice day jelkner 12:34
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thomasboimahBye guys12:34
thomasboimahACTION sign off until wednesday12:35
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svayeACTION done12:35
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