Circle Call 2025-09-24

General Information

Wednesday 24 September 2025 @4pm

Video Call Link

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

Agenda

• Appoint facilitator and note taker
• Check forum thread for any agenda items
• Check parked agenda points and review actions from previous meeting (August Circle Call)
• Add any other agenda points

Agenda items

- how can people get CoTech wiki accounts?

Minutes

Facilitator: Mikaela
Notes: Chris (Go Free Range)

* Agenda
** Set up wiki accounts

Talk to Chris (WebArchitects) or ask on CoTech forum and we can set you up. Each
co-op should already have someone who can do it for you, see:
https://wiki.cotech.coop/wiki/Special:ListUsers

** Updates from last meeting

Richard (Outlandish): We're speaking to Ethical consumer conference
and hoping to get a space to speak.

** Oxford gathering update

Mikaela: Only 12 registrations so far. 4 people from Agile, so
expecting around 20 max. Probably going to stick to a single track
rather than have breakouts.

Received a submission from Richard (Outlandish) to talk about CoTech
marketing/outreach.

Richard (Outlandish): Natasha interviewed some stakeholders about
triaging incoming leads, using the forum better. She's produced a 15
min video to talk through the results of this work. Richard would like
to show the findings, and then run a "how might we" activity. Also run
a sketching "crazy 8" workshop for improvements/changes to CoTech
forum/website - hopefully to take away some actionable changes for
Natasha and others to work on later.

Mikaela: We should be able to run this session in the morning.

Richard (Agile): confirms there's room to run these types of
activities and also outdoor space for breakouts.

** Group chat discussion

John has written a tool to link Slack, RocketChat and Discord channels
to a "CoTech feed". Speak to John if you want to get yourself set up
with that.

** CoTech Awards

John presented an idea for a session at the gathering to give out
CoTech Awards. We discussed whether this should be a purely-for-fun
activity or something bigger and more serious. If the latter we felt
we wanted to have more people involved in planning it and possibly
extend it to non-CoTech members (e.g. our clients).

We weren't sure if the gathering would have the right kind of room to
allow a break-out session so John's going to pursue this idea online
for now.

** CoTech fund update

Chris (Go Free Range) gave an update on the ideas Richard (Agile), Ben
and him have been working up to potentially increase CoTech members'
workers.coop subscriptions but receive a matched amount back from
workers.coop to use as we see fit. They've run the idea in principle
past some workers.coop people and it's been positively received.

Action: Chris (Go Free Range) to talk to Chris (WebArchitects) or
Natasha to run a report on how much CoTech members currently
contribute so we can put some real numbers on the proposal.