Date: April 17, 2024
Time: 9am PT, 12pm ET
Meeting Link: Social Co-op GOAT Gatherings room .
Calendar: Calendar – GOAT
Hey all, unfortunately I can’t make the call today. But welcome Semra!! 
One thing to mention is an update from GOAT Open Collective, it’s nearly ready to be used! @AmberS and I are working through the last steps of the process to get people paid out from the CAFF event. This is reminding me that we should figure out a strategy for administering these things in OC - basically, we need some people to serve as admins and approve things, keep us in check, etc as needed. 2024 CAFF Small Farm Tech Expo - Open Collective
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Agenda
Welcome Semra Fetahovic, GOAT’s Community Organizer
Call for participation on the GOAT 2024 Organizing Committee
Administration of Open Collective
Where to GOAT 2024
Highlighted Posts on the Forum:
National Farm Viability Conference 1
Farm Hack Revival 1
National Ag Producers Data Cooperative (NAPDC) Webinar on April 22nd 1
BOOK CLUB (Jamie is putting together a proposal for a biweekly-ish schedule to meet and discuss selected readings)
Other updates and conversations
Zines
Growing the GOAT community with job opportunities - inventory places GOAT orgs can post jobs
Attendees:
Introductions:
Pierre-Luc
Semra (community organizer)
- Light needs assessment
- Conferece
Conference Organizing:
- Juliet: yes, no MC, yes on administrative support, data management
- Jamie: can’t commit too much to a general role in organizing, but could take on target aspects, particularly a good chunk of admin, if it’s well defined (contained), also silly tasks
- Vic: some support around final weeks, happy to do some facilitation, and logistics. Planning on going. Last intue things.
- Amber: unsure of capacity to support, Skills: logistics and administrative is good, and good in front of an audience.
- River: wants to go to GOAT, wants to help where there is room for help, time is freeing up a little bit, admin support.
- Ankita: has capacity to get an intern for GOAT. Open to facilitate at conference.
- Anna: in person facilitation support, run of show type of stuff. Facilitate documentaiton processes. unconference planning
- Greg: Happy to run, take on support in all the
- Pierre-Luc: wants to get onboarded to the community first.
Open Collective:
- You have to understand what is intended and budget
- Mistakes, complex situations
- Interim Treasurer Role: Greg
- Back ups: Paul and Juliet
- SOP generation: Paul and Greg
- New comer will test and iterate
- Greg has doucmented transition process.
- Need two people so we’re not approving our own expense.
Conference venue:
- 100 people
- Co-located on a farm or near/connected to a agricultural landscape.
- Stuffing 100 people into a space like that.
- Paicines’s schedule is pretty full
- Proxomity to participants (all of North America)
- Facilities (open spaces, some AV, decent internet)
- Accomodation on site for adhoc conversations, food, etc
- Semra to start looking at venues on our sheet.
- 5 days is a good amount of time
National farm vaiability conference - Eastern Conference Box:
- OUT of farmOS stickers
- NEED GOAT stickers
- Juliet send stickers to DAN
- Who is going to support financially? OurSci is paying for it all.
- Need to streamline decision making on when to go to conferences and who will be supporting the financial costs.
- Greg, Amber, Paul, Juliet to create SOP for using
Book club: