Circle Call 2022-05-25

Wednesday, 25th May 2022 @4pm in CoTech Meet.coop room, see also the forum post.

Agenda

• Check-in
• Matters arising from the last call, which are not already on the agenda
• CoTech gathering in Birmingham - thread.
• Check-out

Minutes

• Time: 4pm 25th May 2022

• Attendees: Szczepan (animorph), Asa (animorph). John (code-op), Michael (DCR), Chris (Webarchitects)

Check-in

Where is the geological divide with sociological implications: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watford_Gap

Actions from last call

• Previous Call: https://wiki.coops.tech/wiki/Circle_Call_2022-04-27
• Passed the vote to fund costs of the gathering: https://www.loomio.org/p/S2IqRFjL/fund-to-cover-750-costs-of-birmingham-gathering-15-16th-june-2022
• Chris (WebArch) will update the servers and invoice the Fund for shared infrastructure.
• Blake House payment seemingly got actioned - Sz. to check with Chris Lowis (GFR)

CoTech gathering in Birmingham

• Booked venue for gathering, called warehouse cafe, 9am-9pm on 15th and 16th June
  • Some talk about booking their garden, they run their venue as 3 different orgs so it's hard to know exactly who to talk to. But we definitely have a booking for meeting rooms and cafe

• Need to tell them if we want food and how much paying them for use of the cafe.
• Are we selling tickets?
  • Yes: raises money for CoTech (bouncers required?) - no.
  • No: easier, already passed proposal to pay for it - yes.
    • Decided open to all, for highly moral reasons.

• Publicising:
  • John has list of all coops hello@, info@ - Szczepan happy to do it, keep people in the loop, set up a little ledger.
  • Newsletter - essentially a forum post?
  • Include basic information about gathering, and that it's free, bring and accomodate yourself somehow.
  • John - Post in the thread, edit the existing thread, mention people who said they're coming as well.

• Planning sessions:
  • Sharing policies from Hannah.
  • Coordinator Proposal Sessions:
    • https://wiki.coops.tech/wiki/CoTech_Coordinator_Working_Group
  • John to start wiki page for sessions so people can add stuff.
  • Preparing for 'Ways Forward' gathering, Graham talking about October in Manchester: https://community.coops.tech/t/birmingham-cotech-gathering-in-june-your-reactions/3151/4
  • Could also have running sessions (over 2 days) to fix different things, e.g. a website.
  • The new workers co-op federation and the relationship to CoTech:
    • Could we use this as the legal entity we've been talking about?
    • Could we share some of the coordination tasks with our potential Network Coordinator?
    • Feedback from Finn and Sion about working coop council.
    • Szczepan to ask Sion Whellens to run the session.

• Anything else to get sorted out?
  • Roles on the day e.g. facilitator, note-taker.
  • Ask in the email if anyone wants to be a facilitator for one day. At Wortley hall paid Seeds for Change to provide facilitators. Seems that we are able to run ourselves

• Thank you for everyone's help and support so far, let's make it happen.

Check-out

• See you in Birmingham!