After the last community call, I said Iād bump one of our old topics about cooperatives or start a new one to reboot the discussions that got going at GOAT 2022. Then the eager beaver I am I just went ahead and created a whole separate category for it whoops!
Specifically, we had a vibrant conversation about āGOAT as a Coopā that I and many others would like to continue, but Iād also love this to be a pretty broad space to discuss coops more generally, like what coops are people already a part of or working with, do folks have any questions about starting and joining one, can you share any hard-learned lessons or organizing strategies, etc.
Oh, and just for background, @samuejao took AMAZING notes (while also facilitating in superb fashion!) during that evening session in the Omega Cafe, where the whole āGOAT as a Coopā concept originally took shape. Rereading it just got me really pumped about this stuff again, personally, and I imagine itās a good place to get caught up if you couldnāt make it or are just joining us now:
In addition to adding coops to the agenda for the March community call (should we start a topic for that?), it could be fun to schedule a separate time if people really want to get into the weeds about this stuff, preferably before the March call. That way we can try to distill those reflections down to something more concrete we can present to the rest of community. If youāre interested, letās pick a time and place!
I also want to ping a few folks on the forum here like @3wordchant, @kylebirchard, @Rohan (and others as I think of them), who I havenāt heard from in a while and I think might take interest. Plus this can be a place to point people from other parts of the interwebs who would be great to include. For instance, the many lovely people over here:
Speaking of, is there a GOAT Mastodon account yet? If we donāt, should we make one over on the social.coop server?
Oh, sure, maybe 11am Eastern / 8am Pacific? Are you yourself on Pacific time, or just accommodating west coast colleagues? I certainly have no problem w/ earlier, since I donāt know of any west coasters attending as of yet.
No, nothing settled. So far, I donāt know of others who are interested, besides @samuejao, and possibly @3wordchant and @ircwaves, but Iām sure Iād know better if Iād put up a scheduling survey to start. So hereās a lettuce meet:
Cool! Well, like I said in the lettuce meet description, thereās LOTS of stuff to talk about, but really I think we just need to scope out what all that is, and not necessarily dive into any of it, so perhaps we can aim to keep this call brief, like 20-30 min (famous last words).
Is it a cop-out if I schedule two half-hour-ish calls, to accommodate everyone? Iāll make sure Iām present for both, but others shouldnāt feel compelled to attend both. Again, mostly this is just to bullet point the salient issues so we can have a more coherent and directed discussion at the next community call.
Hereās the two I just put into the calendar:
2023-03-06T19:00:00Zā2023-03-06T19:25:00Z
2023-03-08T01:00:00Zā2023-03-08T01:25:00Z
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Blah, I think I may have muddied the waters too much with this one. I just sent out a specific invite for tmw eveningās 8pm EST call for those who said they could make it, according to the poll, but let me know if there is a better time to reschedule the meeting from today! ccāing @nedhorning@sudokita since I donāt believe the Tue 8pm time worked for yāall, in case you want to chat at a separate time.
Participants: Jamie, Calix, Juliet, Paul, Samuel Scribe: Samuel
Executive summary
Jamie proposed a huddle for people interested in coops and the conversations that emerged from GOAT to discuss possible next steps. The meeting was attended by Juliet, Jamie, Calix, Paul and Samuel. The group had an informal discussion thinking through how best to reactivate the conversation on coops and how to invite people into larger more participatory sessions. It was decided that the notes from the After Hours coop session (as well as coop sculpture session and coop resources) would be adapted and placed in a Miro board. Juliet worked on building a prototype of this.
The group decided that it would also be good to have an ice-breaker or rapid fire session where people could present a coop or a project that they knew. This āget to know a coopā would happen after the intro/context piece. Calix suggested we ask people to connect the coop they present to the work or vision of GOAT.
In discussions of desired outcomes or next steps the group thought it was better to leave it open to see what emerged from the conversation. Samuel proposed that there could also be a series of guest presentations about coops and it was decided that these could be at the intro or ending of each meeting (possible 10-20 minutes each). For the upcoming meeting it was decided that there would also be a prompt at the end of the for people to propose or vote on topics or coops of interest.
If you are able next Wed 3/15 at 12pm Eastern, weāll be dedicating most of the community call to coop stuff. Otherwise, any time you have the capacity, yours will be a welcome voice in the conversation, so no rush on that front.
