Agenda

Notes

Chris will check the amount that CoTech owes WA for hosting and invoice CoTech for 2020 — NOT done, Chris will do this!
Polly, Calum and Lucy to update the wiki with info on onboarding. — DONE, see https://wiki.coops.tech/wiki/CoTech_resources_page && https://office.coops.tech/s/RxCkGw8dCLJgsLK
Polly, Lucy and Calum to onboard Solidarity Economy Association & Dandelion; — HALF done, SEA not around til Sept, Lucy doing Dandelion this week.
Calix and Szczepan to contact Carbon Co-op and ask them to join CoTech. — NOT doing yet though Sz has been trying to make contact, will continue. Chris happy to join too.
Chris will set up a CoTech instance of Meet.coop and let everyone know on the forum. — Webarch put a lot of time into meet.coop and not been able to continue due to normal commitments. More work needed to make this happen and no prospect of being able to pay Chris for his time yet. We can create a thread on the forum to enable people to test it out before proposing adoption.
Calum will lead on setting up a CoTech instance of Hubl, will request a reimbursement for 1-2 days of work and for hosting the system with Webarchitects. — On the agenda!

Discussion about a proposal for CoTech to join meet.coop, and to use the Canadian server

It is possible to have multiple calls concurrently, so individual co-ops could have meetings on this platform, too
It may be better to trial it first - assigned Mel action point to open discussions on the forum

Could the newsletter be revived? Needs energy and people to take it on. Chris Lowis was doing it before 2nd child came along. Callum and Sz will get in touch and see what could be done.

We have a new pitch deck to onboard new members. It lives on Nextcloud. One main aim is to enable as many people as possible to onboard new members. A PDF version can also be shared and distributed within new member coops.

Amending proposal to accept Hubl's offer for hosting
Include the review suggestion and the metrics proposed (users, skills shared successfully, contributed code, communication volume)
Suggestion to include the £500 as a budget for changes, and set spending it on contributing to the codebase as a review metric
Suggestion to include the community animation working group in the proposal, and have a regular (monthly?) cycle of communication within it, to see what needs changing etc

Mateus from Outlandish has done some thinking about improvements to the website. He feels the website doesn't emphasise the collaborations within the network and the UI could be simplified without losing any of the current functionality.
Improvements:
- Remove technologies and services sections and replace with filters within the members sections.
- Add a new section on the homepage for collaborations and and additional landing / listing page to showcase project collaborations with an emphasis in the copy on why the collaboration made the project a success.
Next steps:
- work out how this can be done technically and find someone who is willing and able to do it (talk to Go Free Range) [Polly]
- make a proposal to pay someone for their time to do this. [Polly]
- possibly use Hubl to publicise the job

When are we going to meet?
- Unlikely to be plans for a while because of the extent of uncertainty

Chris will check the amount that CoTech owes WA for hosting and invoice CoTech for 2020 - DONE
Mel will open a Discourse proposal for trialing Meet.coop within CoTech - what are the options etc - DONE
Szczepan, Chris and Calum will start an email conversation about community animation and newsletter - DONE
Polly and Aaron to update the Loomio proposal for Hubl - DONE
Polly and Mattheus to contact the developers of the current website (Chris L, Nick, Go Free Range, ...?), to assess the time and cost needed to implement the proposed designs
Add planning for next gathering to next month's agenda
Aaron will organise the next call