Circle Call 2019-08-28

CoTech Decision making Circle Call

Co-ordinator - Liam, Facilitator - Aaron, Note-taker - Pete B

Agenda

Attendance and apologies
Notes of the last call, Circle Call 2019-07-31 (this didn't take place), notes of the call before last Circle Call 2019-06-26
Autumn 2019 CoTech gathering in Newcastle?
Joint Workers co-op / CoTech weekend May 2020, see the Loomio thread and the Discourse thread
Announcements
Actions
AOB
Next meeting: Circle Call 2019-09-25

The last meeting was in June because of holidays etc.

Actions - some below, plus:

Please join the call mailing list - https://www.email-lists.org/mailman/listinfo/cotech-call!
Liam is going to look into a Jitsi replacement

Topics discussed:

Callum has sussed out a venue, that is similar to Sheffield's venue
Costs are around £400 for the venue
Planning a carbon-copy event of Sheffield
Alpha (?) will co-host
The date is yet to be confirmed but in November
Callum is going to talk to Jonathan @ Webarchitects (who organised Sheffield) on the main milestones etc
Which we also discussed:
- first book the venue
- second set up the wiki site for agenda etc
- third selling tickets (Jonathan can recommend a social venture that does this)
- Also provide links to accomodation options
While remembering to consider disabled access at the venue

Actions:

Talk to each other - Jonathan and Callum
Post some dates on the Discourse site (Or Loomio?) to check no obvious clashes - Callum

Chris (sadly) was not on the call and Aaron reported he was worried that not many people had responded to his poll.
It was pointed out that we are still many months away from this so perhaps this is not a worry?
Agreed to leave it in the agenda and discuss further next time (and in Newcastle)

Actions:

Check with John Atherton that there is no hard deadline from Coops UK's point of view about CoTech finalising this - Aaron.

Szczepan drew our attention to patio.ica.coop and a Show and Tell session this Friday (30th September)
(Patio.ICA.coop is the International Coop Alliance discourse site (coop members may join))
Szczepan needs a paid Zoom account

Actions:

John at Codeoperative has one and is willing to provide - Szczepan and John to discuss
Please tell people in your coops about the event (link?) - All!

In Oxford on 23rd Sept - all welcome
Links:
- Tickets via Losing control: https://thesocialchangeagency.org/getting-agreement-get-things-done-decision-making-action/
- Also at Oxford coops: Meetup https://www.meetup.com/oxcoop/events/263577751/

Liam is happy to continue coordinating for next three months, Szczepan will shadow and take over after that.
Aaron happy to continue facilitating including Weds 25th Sept
Szczepan will take notes at the next meeting

Thanks from everyone - for a great meeting!