Belated chat transcript starting at 30min past the convening time. Extra innings galore, an hour past the usual stop time. Nice weather in Portland and Seattle. Stafford Beer, Viable System Model. Dan Davies and "The Unaccountability Machine", strong narrative metaphors to communicate Stafford Beer's System 1 - System 5 without diagrams.
Demo and investigation of formatting and styling the GraphViz plugin in FedWiki.
Attempts at setting up the Site Survey Probe, examples of Surveys and Survey Results, the Journal Fork Survey Probe, challenges with HTTP vs. HTTPS content sharing and the browser security model, activating HTTP to make multi-site probes possible within the wiki client context which otherwise falls afoul of mingling site to site content in HTTPS contexts.
Sustainability of federated wikis for neighborhood level coordination over time, vulnerability to changes in browsers and supported network protocols, turnkey Raspberry Pi wikis, mesh network node based wiki neighborhoods, Eric's Docker container turnkey wiki distribution, minimum "system gardening" needed vs. WikiCafe hosting.
Advocacy for viable system practices via learning from incidents, post-WW2 industrial society as missing a homeostat, when does a system not seek viability (start-up enterprises as vehicles seeking opportunity to hit viability via acquisition or by public capital market funding).
Explore DDD Conference Denver, opportunities for making resilience engineering have a value proposition in business terms, the algedonic feedback system from operations to management.
The algedonic feedback system made me think of the "andon cord", pull the cord and it lights up a need for incident response.