AstroLog PIR®

Foyers

A running record of confirmed, shipped work. Every foyer is one project's room - pick a door. Public-safe summaries only. The deeper technical detail lives in the library.

90 entries9 foyers shippingsince 2023-08-11 RSS
Committee

GSR Committee

General Service Representatives - minutes and monthly reports, gathered from every group.

11 entries Committee

Lit Com

Literature Committee minutes and tools, beyond the WhatsApp thread. (The Book Committee now carries the book work.)

2 entries Committee

Tech Com

The committee that keeps the clocks wound - minutes and infrastructure, from Tech 2.0 to the AstroLog (Tech 3.0).

16 entries Committee

PR Committee

Public Relations Committee minutes and media.

6 entries
CommitteePopulation of data in progress

Publications Committee

Publications Committee minutes - forapir lives here, alongside the Newspaper and Book committees.

Infrastructure desk

WordPress sites

psychedelicsinrecovery.org and its subdomains: headers, mobile nav, search, speed.

25 entries Committee

Board of Directors

B.O.D. minutes, resolutions and governance records - with the Election Committee nested here as its subcommittee.

5 entries
CommitteePopulation of data in progress

Book Committee

Grew out of Lit Com, lives within the Publications family, keeps its own AstroMinutes.

Infrastructure desk

GitHub home & brand

PIR's open GitHub surfaces: the hub, this AstroLog, logos and brand files.

9 entries Committee

Intergroup

Intergroup minutes and reports - with the Service Structure subcommittee nested here.

3 entries
Committee

Newspaper Committee

Home of De Vine News. Grew out of PR, lives within the Publications family, keeps its own AstroMinutes.

See the current dashboard
Infrastructure desk

A.L.E.X. & helpdesks

PIR's Discord helper and the helpdesks that never lose a request.

3 entries

Everything, newest first

Each star is one finished piece of work. Rose marks high priority, gold medium, teal low.

  1. November 2026
  2. Online Meeting Guide: closed meeting removed and links refreshedFour approved fixes are live on the Online Meetings page: the closed Tuesday UK Step Study is removed, Family of Origin and Friday Topic/Discussion now use…main siteMediumChristopher W + Littlebird
  3. October 2026
  4. Denver joins the map: a new Wednesday in-person meetingThe In-Person Meetings page has a new listing: Denver, Colorado — South Broadway Christian Church, 23 Lincoln Street, 80203. Wednesdays, 7:00 p.m. MT (75 minutes), open…main siteMediumChristopher W + Littlebird
  5. One kit, one footer, every door: Foyers in groups, a gratitude pledge, and proposals in the openEvery PIR® page on GitHub now runs the same arrival kit (1.4) as the other organizations, with nothing patched on top. Donate and the welcome guide are in every footer,…GitHub home & brandMediumChristopher W
  6. The PR foyer is populated: six meetings, October 2025 to May 2026The PR Committee's foyer now carries its record: six meetings unfolded, October 2025 through May 2026 - from the podcast pilot to De Vine's birth on paper to the parked…Tech ComMediumChristopher W, Littlebird
  7. Foyers, not rows: the grid reads in columns, and the Election Committee finds its deskChris caught the porch grid reading the wrong way: it was filled row by row, so his columns came out scrambled. Fixed - the foyers now read GSR/PR/BOD/Intergroup down…Tech ComMediumChristopher W, Littlebird
  8. TechCom October report: the helpdesks, the AstroLog, and a pipeline made honestTechCom's monthly report to the GSR Subcommittee, October 17, 2026. The A.L.E.X. helpdesks are live on Discord and the web, the AstroLog Changelog is live as the…Tech ComMediumChristopher W with LittlebirdAI
  9. LitCom October report: the book launch, old minutes on the record, and a fellowshipping monthLitCom's monthly report to the GSR Subcommittee, October 17, 2026. October was a fellowshipping month as members supported the convention and each other. The "Living…Lit ComMediumChristopher W
  10. Member materials 2025-2026: the gap being filled, and the FAQs that came in from the coldA teaser for the gap years: in 2025 LitCom built out PIR's member materials - the first batch of FAQs, printed materials, the Twelve Steps poster - and in 2026 the work…Lit ComLowChristopher W
  11. October 2026 subcommittee reports: a book on Amazon, minutes going public, and a convention rememberedThe subcommittee reports from October 17, 2026: PR is rebuilding its host bench and pushed the convention gallery; LitCom is fellowshipping and queuing a second FAQ…GSR CommitteeMediumAnne R, Christopher, Evan K, Karyn S
  12. GSR records go live: September's minutes unfolded, every desk gets a pageThe GSR desk went from an intake notice to a living record on meeting day: the September 19 minutes unfolded into three entries, the TechCom and LitCom monthly reports…GSR CommitteeMediumChristopher W with LittlebirdAI
  13. October 2026: Tradition 10, a new board, and the record goes publicThe October 17, 2026 GSR meeting, the first with the fellowship's service record unfolding in public. Tradition 10 held the floor - outside issues, neutrality, primary…GSR CommitteeMediumKaryn S (chair), fourteen trusted servants
  14. Fourteen written reports from thirteen groupsThe written group reports from the GSR Monthly Reports form, October 2026: fourteen submissions from thirteen groups, recorded as submitted. Sunday Integration carries…GSR CommitteeLowthe GSRs, as submitted
  15. The GSR Desk opens its doorsA new helpdesk portal went live the same afternoon the GSR meeting showcased the record: gsr-desk-public, modeled on the PR Desk, with the /gsr command, a "looking for…A.L.E.X. & helpdesksMediumChristopher W, Littlebird
  16. The concierge layer: dividers in the flyout, a GSR row everywhere, and the Board's front doorA small shared helper - arrival/concierge.js - now dresses the Helpdesks dropdown on every page that loads it: "Committees" and "Infrastructure desks" section dividers,…A.L.E.X. & helpdesksHighChristopher W, Littlebird
  17. The day the pipeline stood back up: four landmines, one leak check, and a reworded confessionFor 24 hours the public site stood still while the build tripped over four small frontmatter mistakes, a naming convention, and finally one lazy commit message. This is…Tech ComMediumChristopher W with LittlebirdAI
  18. The ping that broke the silence, and the suite speaks past-tenseChris's ping brought the EMCP bridge back after ~50 dark minutes, and the whole post-convention pass landed: the Convention Hub hero now says the gathering has…WordPress sitesHighChristopher W
  19. The neighborhood nav, a hero unmasked, and the flyout set freeChristopher's second feedback round of the day, all shipped: marquees become full carousels with arrows, page dots and a counter; a scroll cue bows at the bottom of…convention-astroHighChristopher W
  20. The kit lands on the gallery, and the marquee learns to be heldChristopher's feedback round on the gallery suite came back with a dozen fixes, and all of them shipped: the arrival kit finally renders on the gallery index AND its…convention-astroHighChristopher W
  21. The gallery wall, the album switcher, and the lightbox that hid in plain sightRound three, same day. The stray "download button" at the page bottom turned out to be the lightbox itself: its CSS was scoped to .pir-conv but the overlay lives…convention-astroHighChristopher W
  22. The app shell that ate the gallery, and the connector that sleptThe download links Littlebird handed to the terminal served the Littlebird app's own page shell instead of the files, so a faithful commit replaced both gallery pages…galleryHighChristopher W
  23. Jetpack wanted its cut, and the bridge went quietThe WordPress.com connector mystery ended with a plot twist: it connects fine and even sees both PIR sites, but site-scoped editing demands a Jetpack AI or Complete…WordPress sitesMediumChristopher W
  24. Ghost paragraphs and the Array that ate the hubTwo post-convention layout regressions, two different bugs, both fixed and verified in a real browser. The Live Stream page's day-card grid was shattered by empty autop…WordPress sitesHighChristopher W
  25. The XDN comes home while the family gets a shoutoutThe escalated XDN case resolved the same evening - Martin G. at WPX System Admins unstuck the rebuild and confirmed "the issue has been resolved." And the root cause is…WordPress sitesMediumChristopher W
  26. The proposals shelf: intake openPopulation of data in progress. Each committee is able to share proposals with Intergroup, so the ledger keeps a shelf for them. The shelf lives here on the Intergroup…IntergroupLowChristopher W
  27. The canvas that ate the page - a debugging story with a headless browserThe Convention site looked "blank - only background" even with correct deploys. The culprit: the starfield canvas rendered as a static 900px-tall block ABOVE the page,…convention-astroMediumChristopher W
  28. The assets shelf gets a walkthrough, and the pipeline breathes againThe sync pipeline is whole again: the frontmatter typo is fixed, the two screenshots are home in assets/ (moved by Christopher through github.dev), the shelf now has…GitHub home & brandHighChristopher W
  29. Gatherings joins the nav; gallery tiles go visual; suite heroes center; WP fixesThe suite's navbar now has a Gatherings group (Convention, Galleries, Schedule, Live stream) and the More panel reads as a tree instead of a mile-long list. The gallery…GitHub home & brandHighChristopher W with LittlebirdAI
  30. Intergroup & SSS records: intake openPopulation of data in progress. The Intergroup (IG) and Spiritual Solutions Subcommittee (SSS) records are being gathered and filed onto this desk. Sources are linked…IntergroupLowChristopher W
  31. GSR records: intake openPopulation of data in progress. GSR is now the fellowship's decision-making body, and its records are being gathered here - going back years, not just weeks. The…GSR CommitteeLowChristopher W
  32. Feedback round: the marquee lands on the Convention gallery, the walkthrough meets the kit, the Drive ID rises from the deadChris's afternoon feedback, addressed in full. The big catch: the Drive folder was never dead — our pages carried a typo'd folder ID; the real one works. The…convention-astroHighChristopher W with LittlebirdAI
  33. Convention Hub night-sky restyle; home CTA repointed; MCP is backThe WordPress MCP came back and the queued styling work landed: the Convention Hub page now wears the Night Sky layout (hero, pills, six-card grid, closing section),…convention-astroHighChristopher W
  34. A gallery of our own - and a Convention site to hold the storyA WhatsApp request to connect Anne R.'s Pixieset album went wonderfully rogue and became two new fellowship repositories: the PIR® Gallery (every album we make, kept on…convention-astroHighChristopher W
  35. The XDN takes a breather while WPX system admins step inThe main domain's XDN toggle was found switched off - likely a side effect of the temporary suspension during the payment lapse. Support resets didn't unstick the…WordPress sitesMediumChristopher W
  36. The porch grows to twelve desksThe AstroLog's porch is now twelve bentos: a Board of Directors card arrives, De Vine News moves into its own "Newspaper Committee" desk, and Intergroup and Book…GitHub home & brandLowChristopher W
  37. The morning the websites took a breather — and the safeguards the fellowship built out of itFor a few hours both PIR® websites went dark. The cause was ordinary and human: a hosting renewal invoice ($299.90, due October 7) slipped past its due date, and the…WordPress sitesHighChristopher W
  38. The fellowship's founding documents get a glow-up — By-Laws go emoji-rich, twelve legacy minutes preserved in fullTwo documents got the care they deserved today: the By-Laws now render on GitHub like a friendly webpage instead of a wall of legal text, and twelve Tech Committee…WordPress sitesMediumChristopher W
  39. Every committee gets its own desk button, the growth badge learns some manners, and three new pages join the familySeven committee pages now carry their own helpdesk desk button, so a request for help lands directly with the right team instead of in a generic pile. The growth badge…WordPress sitesHighChristopher W
  40. One navbar on every PIR page and desk, one window for every way to reach PIR, a map of everything, and a donate pagePIR's hub, this AstroLog, A.L.E.X., every helpdesk, the C.A.T.A.L.Y.S.T. chalkboard and Alexandrina's window now share one navbar, with an icon on every link, that…GitHub home & brandMediumChristopher W
  41. The ledger: every public change in plain words, plus reading mode and what's new since your last visitThe AstroLog has a new page, the ledger: every public change to PIR's open repositories on GitHub, in plain words, gathered fresh every day. There's also a one-tap…GitHub home & brandLowChristopher W
  42. The main site moves onto WPX's CDN, plus three wasted requests per page removedpsychedelicsinrecovery.org now runs through WPX's content delivery network, the way the service site already did. Until today the main site was served straight from a…WordPress sitesHighChristopher W
  43. Choose how you arrive: a welcome guide, one search for everything, and a preview card for every entryPIR®'s GitHub hub and this AstroLog now greet first-time visitors with a short "Choose how you arrive" (light, motion, contrast and cursor effects), offer a welcome…GitHub home & brandMediumChristopher W
  44. A fifth PIR site launches, and the events calendar's real root cause gets foundpublicrelations.psychedelicsinrecovery.org is up — the fifth PIR subdomain, continuing the "every committee gets its own lightweight WordPress site" plan. Separately,…WordPress sitesMediumChristopher W
  45. The AstroLog gets a new look, a star chart of everything shipped, and an RSS feedThis changelog and library now share the same look as A.L.E.X. and PIR's helpdesks, so every PIR® page on GitHub feels like one place. Shipped work is drawn as a star…GitHub home & brandLowChristopher W
  46. The WhatsApp previews and the malformed 206During inaugural-convention week, WhatsApp link previews served days-old data. Root cause found two layers deep: our og:image was a WebP (fixed on our side), but the…WordPress sitesHighChristopher W
  47. Live Stream Hub v5: color-coded time zones, one-click day cards, and a new schedule posterThe Convention live-stream page got its biggest polish yet: every session now lists color-coded PDT / EDT / BST / NZDT times, each day image + title + button is one big…WordPress sitesMediumChristopher W
  48. The great slowness investigationThe deepest dig on this desk: intermittent 3-11 second pages and total timeouts, chased through three layers of causes in one ticket - a 3-PHP-worker ceiling and 200…WordPress sitesHighChristopher W
  49. A new helpdesk@ address, checkout follow-ups, and a look back at PIR's emailPIR now has helpdesk@psychedelicsinrecovery.org for the new helpdesks, convention checkout follow-ups are set up and tested, and we documented how PIR's email has…WordPress sitesLowChristopher W
  50. Meet A.L.E.X. — a Discord helper and real helpdesks are on the wayPIR is piloting A.L.E.X., a Discord helper that answers questions only from PIR's own published materials (with sources), plus private helpdesks for LitCom, TechCom,…A.L.E.X. & helpdesksHighChristopher W
  51. PIR's logos now have an official home on GitHubPIR's logos and brand guidelines now live in one public place — psychedelicsinrecovery/brand-assets — with published literature to follow, so nobody has to dig through…GitHub home & brandMediumChristopher W
  52. September 2026
  53. The mobile menu now scrolls properly to reach every pageThe open mobile menu now scrolls smoothly and reliably all the way down, confirmed on a real iPhone — and grows with a submenu's content before it needs to scroll at all.WordPress sitesHighChristopher W
  54. The mobile menu button now works reliably on phones — including iPhoneThe mobile menu button was unreliable across phones/browsers — now confirmed working on a real iPhone, not just testing tools.WordPress sitesHighChristopher W
  55. The site header now stays out of your way while you scroll — and comes right back when you need itThe nav bar tucks itself away as you scroll down a page and slides right back the moment you scroll up, so it's out of the way when you're reading and there when you…WordPress sitesMediumChristopher W
  56. Footer social icons now properly centered on mobileThe footer's social icons weren't centered on phones, and its image wasn't centered on desktop either. Both are now fixed.WordPress sitesLowChristopher W
  57. SMTP 451 4.7.1 - the fifty-emails lessonA bulk send to ~100 recipients hit WPX's mail throttle: 50 emails per 30 minutes per mailbox. Not a bug - a deliberate guard on a mail service built for correspondence,…WordPress sitesLowKevin F
  58. September meeting: Tradition 9, minutes approved, and a chair's horizonThe GSR Subcommittee met Saturday, September 19, 2026 at 12:00 PM Eastern on Zoom, chaired by Karyn S, with fourteen members present. Tradition 9 opened a candid…GSR CommitteeMediumKaryn S
  59. Sixteen groups report in: attendance, motions and open service rolesThe September GSR written reports, recorded as submitted: sixteen groups checked in. Attendance ranged from 2 in Ann Arbor to about 40 at Sunday Integration. Sunday…GSR CommitteeMediumKaryn S
  60. A Message from the PIR Board to the FellowshipAttachment A of the September GSR minutes: the Board's letter to the fellowship on how we hold disagreement in service. Disagreement is healthy; questioning a…Board of DirectorsMediumThe PIR Board
  61. June 2026
  62. The Election Committee's first town hall: how the fellowship recommends its boardJune 20, 2026: the first-ever town hall facilitated by the Election Committee, the temporary committee charged with gathering the fellowship's recommendations for the…Board of DirectorsMediumthe Election Committee (Aili, Jaime, Patrick, Mike B, Ruth)
  63. The Election Committee's desk: opened June 20, hibernated August 23The Election Committee - the temporary committee that gathered the fellowship's recommendations and seated the 2027 board - opened its desk with its first town hall on…Board of DirectorsMediumthe Election Committee (Aili, Jaime, Patrick, Mike B, Ruth)
  64. May 2026
  65. Imagick, loopbacks, and the https that wasn'tA live-chat morning with WPX that settled a whole season of Site Health warnings in one sitting: imagick installed on all four sites, the firewall taught that our own…WordPress sitesMediumChristopher W
  66. PR, May 9, 2026: the newsletter parks, the summer plansWith volunteers scarce, the newsletter is parked with honesty: the May edition ships in PDF, the June edition may be the last unless support appears, and the call for…PR CommitteeMediumPR Committee (Anne R chair)
  67. April 2026
  68. Three reminders and one EPP code: the transfer completesBetween March and April 2026, WPX's migration team sent three automated alarms titled "IMPORTANT! Domain transfer failed" — but the actual problem was one missing…WordPress sitesLowKevin F
  69. PR, April 12, 2026: rebuilding the newsletter workflowThe newsletter workflow is rebuilt from Canva's drag-and-drop fragility into a sustainable pipeline: Douglas takes editor-in-chief, Ryan collects submissions, Karyn…PR CommitteeMediumPR Committee (Anne R chair)
  70. March 2026
  71. PR, March 13, 2026: a small room, big plansA two-person meeting - Karyn and Rob P - still moves the committee's work: Rob takes Reddit outreach (ten podcast links posted), learns Opus Clip and Riverside for…PR CommitteeMediumPR Committee (Karyn S, Rob P)
  72. February 2026
  73. PR, February 14, 2026: Integration Radio, Episode 3, is outIntegration Radio Episode 3 launches the day of the meeting, live on Spotify, Apple and YouTube. The committee agrees on a bi-weekly cadence and a standardized release…PR CommitteeMediumPR Committee (Anne R chair; minutes drafted by ChatGPT from the recording)
  74. January 2026
  75. The domain comes home (and buys its ticket twice)The psychedelicsinrecovery.org domain transfer from SiteGround hit a snag: the checkout flow sold a duplicate hosting plan instead of charging for the transfer, and the…WordPress sitesMediumDavid L
  76. December 2025
  77. The Board closes the year: quarterly meeting, December 29, 2025The quarterly Board meeting of December 29, 2025, in full: PIR®'s trademark registered with the verified statement due March 2026 (Calyx Law representing), Rick B…Board of DirectorsMediumThe PIR Board
  78. A fresh certificate for publicationsA small, satisfying fix: the publications subdomain's SSL certificate was acting up, WPX deleted and reissued it, and everything went back to normal. Two months into…WordPress sitesLowDavid L
  79. November 2025
  80. PR, November 8, 2025: De Vine is born on paperThe De Vine News newsletter is born on paper: a January launch, Katherine's template, a monthly cadence with website signup, and a deliberate lead with spiritual…PR CommitteeMediumPR Committee (Anne R chair)
  81. October 2025
  82. PR, October 11, 2025: the podcast gets its runwayThe PR Committee of Psychedelics In Recovery™ – PIR® puts the podcast on its runway: the pilot is recorded by Karin and Topher, edited by Ian Yeh, production moves to…PR CommitteeMediumPR Committee (Anne R chair)
  83. Tech 2.0 begins: the fellowship moves to WPXThe entry our whole WPX era hangs from: the free migration request that brought psychedelicsinrecovery.org from SiteGround to WPX, cache plugins pre-configured to the…WordPress sitesMediumDavid L
  84. In memory of David LA moment of remembrance for David L - the fellowship member whose hands first reached out to WPX on October 8, 2025, and who carried our sites through the migration,…WordPress sitesHighThe PIR Fellowship
  85. April 2025
  86. April 2025: a mediation-committee proposal, a name change for the Book Committee, and MAPS DenverApril 2025: Prism proposed a mediation committee, Cheryl proposed renaming the Book Committee, PR asked for recovery and psychedelic podcast recommendations, the…GSR CommitteeLowGSR Subcommittee
  87. December 2024
  88. December 2024: Tradition 12, an Exeter research proposal, and a chair electedDecember 2024: Tradition 12 on safe, sacred, inclusive spaces; the 12&12 writing committee rewriting Step 1; the retreat eyeing Oregon; a major FAQ revision on the PIR…GSR CommitteeLowGSR Subcommittee
  89. November 2024
  90. November 2024: Berkeley ends, Salt Lake City begins, and the donate button gets a workaroundNovember 2024: the Berkeley in-person meeting ends and comes off the website, Salt Lake City launches a new in-person meeting, the donate button is broken (PayPal works…GSR CommitteeLowLauren D (chair), Anne (scribe)
  91. Board report to Intergroup: the tax exemption arrives"With profound excitement": on October 10, 2024, the IRS granted tax exemption to all contributions to Psychedelics in Recovery, effective December 4, 2023. Trademark…IntergroupHighKevin F
  92. July 2024
  93. Holding steady before the launchUnchanged from June — the calm before the launch. This is the last of the twelve surviving documents; the story picks up again in the 2026 AstroLog.Tech ComLowDave M
  94. June 2024
  95. The new website readies for launchHundreds of hours in, the new website is nearly ready — with a fellowship survey and an open feedback meeting planned to welcome it.Tech ComLowDave M
  96. May 2024
  97. The cost of keeping meetings onlineHosting paid through May 2025, and the full annual price of keeping the fellowship online, laid out in plain numbers: $1,559.68 across SiteGround, Zoom, and Mailchimp.Tech ComLowDave M
  98. April 2024
  99. Hosting renews and budget season opensHosting renewal on the horizon at $359.88, the digest mailer still growing, and next year's budget taking shape. (If that renewal number feels familiar, see the lights…Tech ComLowDave M
  100. March 2024
  101. We will build it ourselvesAfter weighing contractor quotes, Dave M and David L decide to build the redesign themselves — and the 7th Tradition buttons prepare to move to PIR's own accounts.Tech ComLowDave M
  102. The Board takes shape: the 2024 founding meetingsThe founding year, in full: from a four-person planning call in March 2024 to a mission statement voted unanimously in June, the 501c3 path with consultant Jason B, the…Board of DirectorsMediumThe PIR Board
  103. February 2024
  104. The redesign begins behind the scenesAlex officially comes aboard as professional web designer; everything runs smoothly and — a rare and beautiful sentence in any service report — there are no outstanding…Tech ComLowDave M
  105. January 2024
  106. Meet Alex — the website overhaul beginsAn introductory call with Alex, a web developer who might help with the long-dreamed front-facing website overhaul. Spoiler from the future: he does, and hundreds of…Tech ComLowDave M
  107. December 2023
  108. Calendar complete and a service email comingA month of rest, a finished calendar page, committee pages taking shape — and the service email separation just weeks away.Tech ComLowDave M
  109. November 2023
  110. A document database is bornThe idea that eventually became today's AstroLog: putting minutes and reports somewhere the whole fellowship can reach them, on the service website itself.Tech ComLowDave M
  111. October 2023
  112. The calendar lands on stagingFour volunteers around one agenda: the service calendar goes live on staging, a crisis-lines page appears, and Rick and Lauren take on taming the PIR inbox.Tech ComLowTech Committee
  113. October 2023: the 501 questions, background checks, and a fellowship finding its footingThe oldest GSR record on this desk, circa October 2023: the fellowship deep in the 501(c)(3) transition - GSRs debating background checks for Board members,…GSR CommitteeLowBeeman (chair), Prism (scribe)
  114. Keeping meetings safe with host trainingDave M's October Intergroup report: hands-on Zoom security training for hosts and co-hosts, steady progress on the service website, and a digest email already…Tech ComLowDave M
  115. August 2023
  116. Tech 2.0 kicks off with a new Zoom linkThe oldest document in the archive: Tech 2.0's founding agenda — a fresh Zoom link, a service website check-in, and a social-media to-do list. This is where the…Tech ComLowTech Committee