Glasgow Gathering 2022
Details
10-11th November 2022, Glasgow
See also the forum thread.
Photos from both days.
Tickets:
Tickets are available via EventBrite@
- Member ticket (per person) £72.00
- Solidarity Ticket £110.00
- Student/unwaged/can't afford full price £38.00
When
Thursday 10 and Friday 11 November 2022, 9.30am - 6pm
With a social on Thursday evening from 7.30 - 11pm.
Where
Glasgow - in Civic House. (As of 2022-09-25 the civic-house.com website was unavailable, there is a copy of it at the Internet Archive)
& the social on Thursday evening is at MONO, another groovy venue.
Address
Event address: 26 Civic House, Glasgow, G4 9RH
Social on Thursday evening: MONO, 12 Kings Court, King St, Glasgow G1 5RB.
Practical information
Here's some info on getting around Glasgow, places to eat and what to visit: LINK
Agenda
The programme that was a Google Doc has been copied below.
Co-Tech members are invited to propose sessions they’d like to happen (and preferably run) and write them into the blank areas of the agenda. Sessions in the Agenda are already confirmed.
There are three areas in the venue, so sessions can run in parallel.
The schedule is work in progress - some sessions may be switched around.
| Time | Session 1 | Session 2 | Session 3 | ||||
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| Description | Lead person | Description | Lead person | Description | Lead person | ||
| 8.30 | Venue set up | media co-op team | |||||
| 9.15 | Arrivals
Coffee, tea |
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| 9.30 | Welcome to Glasgow
Intro to Co-Tech and the event |
Louise - media co-op
Polly - Outlandish | |||||
| 10.00 | Open planning session - an opportunity to propose sessions during the event | All | |||||
| 10.30 | Workers.coop presentation
An introduction to the new workers co-op federation Q & A and discussion |
John Atherton | Open Session
Working group: CoTech Website (new designs, copy, content, CTAs) |
Polly, Outlandish | |||
| 11.15 | Coffee/tea break | ||||||
| 11.30 | Show and Tell - session 1 | Animorph, Open Data Services | |||||
| 12.15 | Removing non-existent co-ops from the website. | Loomio vote | |||||
| 13:00 | LUNCHBREAK | ||||||
| 14:00 | Boss or Bossed invitees arrive | ||||||
| 14.30 | Boss or Bossed? Part 1 - introduction to coops and meet Co-Tech
Co-Tech Open Session for Scottish devs/ designers / digital freelancers Co-Tech invites tech / digital / start-ups, freelancers, students, to come and find out more about the wonders of worker co-ops. An opportunity to inspire a new generation of tech co-ops and meet local Scottish tech and digital talent 14.30 What’s a co-op, what’s a tech co-op, what’s Co-Tech Q & A
14.50 Meet the co-ops - dynamic networking (format tbc) to introduce the co-op curious and co-tech members |
Polly/Louise | Co-Tech - Parallel session
For anyone not involved in / wanting to take part in the Open Event Working group: CoTech Website (new designs, copy, content, CTAs) |
Ansible Workshop
Ansible for beginners, see the forum thread for further details. |
Chris | ||
| 15.40 | Tea, coffee break | ||||||
| 15:50 | Boss or Bossed? Part 2 - the future for digital coops in Scotland
Parallel session for Scottish devs/ designers / digital freelancers] who want to know more about setting up a tech / digital workers co-op in Scotland What are the opportunities for tech / digital co-ops in Scotland today? Anne McLister, Head of Digital Glasgow, Glasgow City Council Eilidh McLaughlin, Head of Digital Citizen Team, Scottish Government Suzanne Orchard, Cooperative Development Scotland John Atherton, workers.coop Q & A
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Co-Tech - Parallel session
For anyone not involved in / wanting to take part in the Open Event Working group: CoTech Website (new designs, copy, content, CTAs) |
Ansible Workshop
Ansible for beginners, see the forum thread for further details. |
Chris | |||
| 16:00 | CoTech Coordinator | ||||||
| 16:55 | Co-Tech Round up | ||||||
| 17:00 | End | ||||||
| 19:30 | Co-Tech Social at
Music by: https://ra.co/dj/tobiasschmidt/biography (works at Green City Wholefoods) and DJ Superstar DJ https://laipower.xyz/category/dj-sets/ (aka Leo from Autonomic) The space is booked just for Co-Tech and our guests: Boss or Bossed attendees, other co-ops and your Glasgow friends. Light snacks later in the evening (assuming |
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| Time | Event | Lead person | Session 2 | Lead person |
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| 9.15 | Tea, coffee … paracetemol? | |||
| 9.30 | Recap on Thursday
Open planning |
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| 10.00 | Local Authorities and Co-ops
From ad hoc support to Co-operative Hubs |
Polly, Outlandish/Space 4 | ||
| 10.45 | Break | |||
| 11.00 | Financing ambitious worker co-op tech projects: the inward investment/ownership dilemma | Szczepan, Animorph | ||
| 11.40 | Brain break | |||
| 11.45 | Show and Tell 2 | |||
| 12.30 | Lunch | |||
| 13.30 | Group leaving for tour must depart Civic House (the venue) at 1.20 to walk to Glasgow Central Station to get the 11.58 train dep from Glagow Central to Nitshill (Barrhead line)
Short walk to Glasgow Museums Resource Centre, 200 Woodhead Rd, Glasgow G53 7NN. Curator Fiona Hayes will meet us in the foyer at 2.30
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Working group: CoTech Website (new designs, copy, content, CTAs) | Polly | |
| 14.10 | Brain break | |||
| 14.15 | 2.30 - 3.30 Glasgow Co-operatives Collection [depart venue at 13.20]
Behind the Scenes at the Glasgow Museums Collection - the Cooperatives Collection (not on public display): Approx 1,000 objects are in the Collection from the Glasgow Co-operative Movement and Scottish Co-operative Wholesale Society dating from 1863 -1990. Glasgow was closely associated with the development of the co-operative movement in Scotland and was also the headquarters of the Scottish Co-operative Wholesale Society (SCWS) from its formation in 1868 until it was absorbed by the Co-operative Wholesale Society (CWS) in 1973. Co-operative societies aimed to provide members with good quality products at affordable prices and pay them a regular dividend. The SCWS became an integral part of daily life for the majority of working class Scots. It was a major employer, manufacturer and retailer and provided welfare and banking through the share system. Co-operatives also provided social, education and leisure opportunities through a network of clubs, choirs and women’s guilds. Glasgow Museums Collections Online / www.collections.glasgowmuseums.com
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Working group: CoTech Website (new designs, copy, content, CTAs) | Polly | |
| 15:00 | Working group: CoTech Website (new designs, copy, content, CTAs) | Polly |
We've scheduled in an Open Session for freelance devs, students, people thinking about setting up a start up in Scotland.
There's lots of interest in the Co-Tech gathering coming to Glasgow from the digital and tech sector - freelancers as well as the agencies and government digital services. But there aren't many of us here - yet. We can change that!
We've proposed the open session for the afternoon of the first day.
Called 'Bossed or Boss?' which is the title of a Co-Tech evening event we ran a few years ago
Glasgow City Council is considering funding this, so it will also bring in a bit of income to Co-Tech towards the event and offset the cost.
We'll invite anyone from the tech / digital sector in Scotland who might be interested in setting up a co-op / would like to know more about worker co-ops to come and meet us. Freelancers, students, people thinking about doing a start-up.
We can inspire with our own stories of what our co-op does and how we got from the idea to what we do now and why co-ops work well for us.
Then, in a follow-up session, various agencies can tell them about the set up in Scotland for co-ops and how to get support: Coop Dev Scotland, Glasgow City Council, workers.coop
We'll invite everyone to the evening social too - & maybe we'll recruit some amazing talented devs and designers
media co-op is creating some social media assets around it to promote it, I'll post these for feedback soon.
And here's the long link again to the outline schedule (in case the bit.ly one goes down) with the notional timings:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ryB8oZvXTBzTHWPqC056jqlArh1A1jByEBGYK42Yv3c/edit?usp=sharing