Circle Call 2020-10-28

Agenda

Who's here:

Hubl is a tool we'd like to use to help us share skills among the CoTech network
English translation is being worked on
Sz has spoken to a number of coops to introduce them to Hubl
Software is still quite slow and in French so we're not pushing it too hard.
Doug is helping some people with a project to create local social networks from federated raspberry pis (elixir / react). Anyone interested in this should get in touch with Doug.

no longer a placement scheme, there were too many students and not enough host co-ops.
now it's more about specific areas of interest within co-ops, e.g. financing
this morning was a Q&A with students to meet co-ops and it went really well
there'll be another session on Co-op Marketting.
goal for this term is to help the students work out what areas are interesting to them. Next term they will have a research topic and will be in touch with co-ops
Lucy wants to get as many people from CoTech involved as possible
There's a forum where we can get involved and discuss with students
Keep an eye on the thread (https://community.coops.tech/t/new-cooperative-management-and-marketing-programme-at-essex/2148/29) for details of how to get involved
Harry to start a thread on forum to collate the academic research that has been done about CoTech.

Sz has an idea to use CoTech funds to update video that Blake House made about CoTech several years ago.
All were in agreement that this would be a good idea.
Sz will find out more before the next call.

Sz pointed us to the thread about the online gathering https://community.coops.tech/t/cotech-gathering-online-early-2021/2367
Lucy - we should try to make this fun
Doug - what is the gathering for? Connections - we should try and come up some ideas for how to connect (e.g. online games on the PS4!)