Circle Call 2025-05-28

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General Information

Wednesday, 28th May 2025 @4pm Discourse thread for the meeting

Add monthly call to your calendar

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
  • Check forum thread and add all the discussion points
  • Check parked agenda points from previous meeting Circle Call 2025-04-30
  • Review last meeting's actions
  • Co-op Congress
  • Rebrand
  • Oxford CoTech Gathering

Notes

Attendance: Chris Croome, Ben, John (Limeleaf), Mikaela, Natasha (she/her), Nick, Simon (Agile Collective) and Tim

Co-op Congress

  • We have a one hour session at Co-op Congress after the session on big tech, Natasha and Richard are working on this.
  • Stall at Co-Congress, there was a discussion about how we should present CoTech.
  • Ben to create a forum thread on practicalities for Co-op Congress, including the extra meeting we are going to have on the 18th June 2025.

Oxford Gathering

Some ideas / suggestions:

  • Ben, a one day session and a evening social works well. Content suggestions, how to encourage retail co-ops to use CoTech co-ops.
  • Nick, agreed that one day works best, suggested childcare.
  • Tim, meeting old friends and new people worked well at the last one, structured and unstructured networking and lightning talks were good, we should have a principal 6 theme.
  • Natasha, a day is good, makes it more accessible although it makes it tight and tiring. Having a structure rather than an un-conference worked for the last one. More action rather than discussion focused sessions.
  • Tim, how we interact with Co-ops UK, how can we build on the relationship.
  • Mikaela, could we invite Co-ops UK?
  • Natasha, having a external event like Louise did in Glasgow could work.