Circle Call 2025-03-26

General Information

Wednesday, 26th March 2025 @4pm

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Google calendar link(recurring event for the last Wednesday of every month, December + August skipped)

Video Call Link

https://de.meet.coop/chr-mfa-bze-hdu

Standing Agenda

• Appoint facilitator and note taker
• Attendees:
• Check forum thread and add all the discussion points
• Check parked agenda points from previous meeting
• Review last meeting's actions

Meeting Agenda

Workers.coop CiviCRM demo

A demonstration of the CiviCRM system, that workers.coop has for managing members, users, newsletter, events.

How we have been using the system for the CoTech phone banking and how it could be used in the future for newsletters and events etc.

Co-op Congress

Why don't we aim to have updated the CoTech website and have produced some new physical publicity in time for a CoTech stall at Co-op Congress in Rochdale 4th and 5th July 2025, with the specific aim of using it to try to generate additional work for CoTech member co-ops? There will also be a lot of ICA delegates there.

European Tech Co-op Networks Gathering

At the last CoTech event, Henning, from Germany, who maintains the tech-coops GitHub repo told us abut the new German tech co-ops network, there is also CoopTech in France -- why don't we contact them if they would like to join in with organising a European Tech Co-op gathering in 2026?

Minutes

Attendance

• Chris
• Ben
• Muntasir
• Natasha
• Richard
• Simon

Appols from Mikaela

Last meeting's actions

None

Workers.coop CiviCRM demo

Chris doesn't have screen sharing configured, this item was postponed, there was a general CiviCRM discussion.

Co-op Congress stall

Ben did a stall at congress last year and it cost around £1k for a stall plus workers time, travel and accommodation and no work came from it as far as they are aware...

CoTech website for July

Process

• Make ticket on Loomio [Chris]
  • This going to happen
  • This is why
  • Say now if you want a say

Identity

• Look and feel
• Logo
• Typography
• Slogans

How? Workshop

Website brief

• Homepage
• Directory of coops (searchable / filterable) and services
• About

Requirements for Congress

• Two banners
• Flyers / business cards / badges / jam / stickers
• Something interactive?

European Tech Co-op Networks Gathering

Chris to create a CoTech forum thread and email German and French networks to invite them to join it.

Actions

• Loomio thread -- Chris
• Speak to Petra, Leonie, or Head of Comms at CUK -- Natasha
• Provisional face-to-face meeting to discuss brief for a new brand, new logo etc -- Space4 3rd April 10am