We do something most groups don't say out loud. So we'll say it plainly.
Every meetup is recorded — audio across multiple microphones, and sometimes video. If you're in the room and you speak, you're in the recording. There is no partial opt-out for audio; the only way not to be recorded is not to participate. Video is softer — if you'd rather not be on camera, sit toward the back, out of frame.
We run the audio through AI — transcription and LLM analysis — and build a corpus: a growing record of how this community thinks and talks. We use that corpus broadly. Internally, to understand and improve the guild. Publicly, in things we may write or share. As material we may learn from or train on. And to inform how we run and grow the community itself. We keep it indefinitely.
We will never sell it. We will never hand it to advertisers or outside parties for their own purposes. The one exception is the mechanical one: the audio passes through the AI tools we use to process it — transcription and language models — which act on our behalf, not their own. That's the whole exception.
We may separate and distinguish speakers, and over time we may come to recognize recurring voices. We don't promise to attribute anything to anyone by name — but if you keep coming back, your voice becomes a familiar thread in the record.
Not a rule — a courtesy. Say the bold thing knowing it's kept. Hold the thing you'd rather not. You know the room now.
This is a free room — free to attend, hosted at no cost, built for people who think hard about this work. In exchange, the room is recorded and the record is ours to work with. We think that's a fair, honest trade, and we'd rather state it openly than bury it.