MetaGOAT Workshop: Co-create a GOATherding plan
In this workshop session, we’ll put together a plan for how we want to community to manage itself. Think little “g” governance, but more importantly, think sustainable community organizing processes. We want to make it easier for people to have a voice, stake, and place in GOAT future planning
In the past, a core group of 4-8 volunteer organizers have performed all GOAT functions, with volunteers solicited in the immediate run up to and during the event itself. While we have managed to host and maintain the GOAT community since 2018, this is not sustainable or inclusive. We seek to establish a governance plan drawing on strategies proposed during the GOAT 2022 conference and community member discussions since. Examples include: prosocial facilitation, cooperative-like structures, and network governance, as well as analogous community governance models, such as the GOSH community council model. The GOAT 2022 output on this topic included a community articulation of a shared vision and a continuation of our 2018 community mapping effort to understand the overlap, conflict, and alignment among the goals of individual GOAT members and their organizations.
This session targets the GOAT 2024 Proposal - Goal 1, as supported via a grant from the 11th Hour Project , a program of the Schmidt Family Foundation.
This will be a 60-min session to discuss, create, and plan next steps.
If you already know you’d like to participate, please let @sudokita know.