MCOSI Meeting Briefing – September 28th 2019

September 28th saw the Minds Community Open Source Initiative (MCOSI) hold it’s recent meeting, which was attended by Luculent, Medworthy, Realmindschan, Mindsgaming (four founding members of the MCOSI), Nick and Nemofin (Minds staff members), as well as being viewed by Rogercooper and several other members of the Minds community.

Nick started the meeting, in which he provided information about the upcoming Minds Pro service and changes to the wire facility (which will provide community members with the capability of being able to send and receive Ethereum, Bitcoin and fiat currencies to each other, as well as continuing to have the ability to send and receive Minds tokens).

Nemofin then continued to provide information about the video functionality, in which he mentioned that the developers attempted to improve transcoding times (the amount of time that is spent converting uploaded video content into a format that is suitable for viewing within the Minds platform), unfortunately there were issues with the new code and therefore it was decided that the transcoding method to be reverted to the previous method. Nemofin also mentioned that currently there are issues with the WebTorrent / P2P functionality, which is currently being reviewed by the developers and has been temporarily disabled (further information about the WebTorrent / P2P functionality is available within Gitlab ticket: front #1997).

Nemofin also introduced the updated developer documentation site, which along side Gitlab, contains information about the platform framework source code, API’s and requirements for 3rd party deployments. The developer documentation site has been updated by Omadrid and assisted by Brianhatchet (both of which are members of the Minds development team).

The announcement about the documentation site raised some questions about the existing deployment method, which currently is using the open source licensed Docker framework. However, Minds developers are intending replace the Docker method with a Kubernetes (K8S) based procedure and further information will be provided within a future update.

There was a brief discussion about the jury facility in which Luculent suggested that it might be a good idea to provide the community with read-only access to the jury administration facility. During the conversation, Nick stated that there are currently approximately 2 million subscribed community members. There was also a separate brief conversation about the (opt-out) reoccurring wire issue in which several community members have recently provided concerns about (for further information about the reoccurring wire, please refer to Gitlab tickets engine #800 and front #2001).

Within the course of the meeting we were intending to have a discussion about the Minds Mobile app but unfortunately the team leader of the dedicated mobile development team could not attend due to personal circumstances (we are hoping to have a discussion with the mobile team leader within a future meeting).

As always, the Minds Community Open Source Initiative welcomes constructive comments, ideas and opinions from the wider Minds.com community. With the support of the community, Minds continues to focus on providing a transparent and open source social media platform.


References & Other Resources:
* Minds Community Open Source Initiative
* Information About The Developer Documentation Website
* Gitlab Ticket: Front #1997 (Disabled WebTorrent)
* Gitlab Ticket: Engine #800 (Recurring Monthly Transactions)
* Gitlab Ticket: Front #2001 (Monthly Transactions Saved State)
* MCOSI Meeting Agenda - September
* Minds Community Open Source Initiative First Anniversary
* Introducing Minds Community Open Source Initiative