Circle Call 2024-11-27

General Information

Wednesday, 27th November 2024 @4pm

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Standing Agenda

• Appoint facilitator and note taker
• Attendees: Chris - Web Architects, Lai - Autonomic, John Evans - Sepheo, Simon Chapman, Richard Rowley - Agile Collective, Natasha - Outlandish
• Check-in
• Check forum thread and add all the discussion points

Meeting Agenda

• Workers.coop merger
• Next CoTech gathering
• Co-op collaborative bidding - (Lai autonomic)
• Could LocalGovDrupal be a model for other co-ops targeting public or other key sectors contracts? - (Lai autonomic)
• Network Coordinator Proposal (Natasha)
• Big Stupid Dream (John Evans)

Minutes

Workers.coop merger

No updates

J: Can we report it back to workers.coop

L: will post it on the workers.coop forum

C: workers.coop started to use sociocracy but moved away from it

N: Outlandish running sociocracy training this Friday - discount code

Next CoTech gathering

N: Friday 14th March date for Space4 gathering. Will post save the date on the forum.

J: Can support!

Network Coordinating/Maintenance proposal (Natasha)

N: Just been put up for discussion up on Loomio but not open up vote yet.

https://www.loomio.com/d/0LsoxXmD/co-tech-network-coordinator-proposal

File:Co-Tech Network Coordinator Proposal.pdf

L: Autonomic would support

Agile would support

Outlandish would support

J: SEPHEO doesn't clash with this. Could collaborate.

R: lead with task based approach to things that aren't happening after merger. Need to get us to March.

R: no one knows what to do with the money. How will the finances of CoTech be?

Co-op collaborative bidding - (Lai - autonomic)

L: Always a dream. Tackle problems such as multiple CoTech agencies bidding for the same thing and capacity and bidding for bigger stuff.

J: understanding what all the co-ops do. Easier to understand which co-ops fit together.

R: covered in the interim coordination proposal.

J: ask people what they do currently and what their vision is (Big Stupid Dream)

C: we should incorporate updating the services offered on the CoTech website

R: wider question of co-op collaboration is a question for March

Could LocalGovDrupal be a model for other co-ops targeting public or other key sectors contracts? - (Lai - autonomic)

R: membership co-op. Can sell that to local government where co-ops are alien. Open source co-op governed software project. There are loads of need, maybe could work in other areas. We could all co-develop things we can sell. Possible money available from Co-ops UK to do such things. Agile could give a CoTech talk on it.

N: what if Space4 did an online event

R and S: we could attend

R: just had LovalGovDrupal week. Loads of talks vids available - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgOTBrkZvJwCuODRpHxZIIA

Big Stupid Dream (John Evans)

J: could this be incorporated into the calling around co-ops being done by the interim coordination proposal.

J: SEPHEO is a new co-op. If we were doing well, mass membership org in the hundreds and thousands. Going from receiver of work to creating it for co-op sector.

R: Agile - grown design team. We'd like to do more visually interesting stuff e.g. museum and arts sector.

L: Autonomic - sustain current wage, doesn't look possible right now. Press one button and life comfortably (ethical).

N: Outlandish - one big client that is month on month support work. Having more members.

S: Agile - being able to offer more ethical successful SAAS services. Stable income.

R: stable internet for all co-operators

C: Web Architects - grant from Sheffield Council to get servers to setup OpenShift. Will get to know outcome early next week. 50k worth of servers. Offer it to Co-ops in CoTech. Web Architects default ethical alternative to AWS.

N: going to put a job out for a digital producer (project manager, sales), anyone know anyone?

R: seed more co-ops. Mentor new co-ops! So much knowledge available for new co-ops. Localised/in person.

R: went to conference in the U.S. Would be good to do that for workers.coop/cotech/co-ops/sales fare. Great to refresh and renew.

C: being discussed for Birmingham workers.coop gathering

Next next CoTech gathering

R: Combine with workers.coop Autumn assembly. Co-op selling day (public). Agile happy to host.

Sion's party 7th December at SPACE4

Come one, come all! https://community.coops.tech/t/sion-a-palooza-party/4104

Check Out

N: really great. Next call will be in Jan. Hopefully vote will go through.

S: started off awkward and got into flow

J: appreciated attention to time. Got everything I wanted.

C: looking forward to party

L: bigger picture always feels a bit more rosy after CoTech happening

Actions

N to change title of proposal to add "interim" and open vote.

N to follow up with Richard about LocalGovDrupal online event in Jan/Feb

Lai to post mins on workers.coop forum

Parked agenda for next meeting

• Discuss focus of next CoTech gathering
• Discuss second CoTech gathering at Autumn assembly