Thanks everyone for the excellent conversation today. Here is a summary of the meeting along with a link to the full notes
GOAT Coop Discussion
05.01.2023
Participants: Calix, Ankita, Juliet, Jamie, Samuel
Facilitation: Calix
Scribe: Samuel
Executive summary
The group met for the ongoing conversation around COOP’s and related models for GOAT. Calix facilitated and after check-ins the agenda focused on A grant/Funding opportunity discussion and reviewing the shared Miroboard. The Miro board discussion was was open ended with Jamie highlighting some key idea that have emerged in the group and Ankita adding a new summary slide to Miro. On the theme of how to organize or structure GOAT Juliet brought experience of Parent Teacher Associations as an interesting model for shared/rotating power and ongoing engagement. Samuel touched on the value of a shared project to help work out/articulate a group’s purpose.
The group then turned its focus to a share-back from the POSE grant opportunity discussion on Friday April 28th. The call had been organized by a group that is pulling together an ad-hoc group on this theme of open source infrastructure for agriculture. The conversation then turned towards the POSE grant itself. Ankita gave an overview of the NSF and POSE and how it might relate to GOAT. Key points: It is not for funding established groups or tech projects. It is for catalyzing communities around open Source ag tech. Jamie discussed the idea of a common funding pool, the GOAT ‘Trough’, created from dues or funding that could be used to support tech projects emerging from the group. Samuel noted the importance of a governance structure and a mechanism for ensuring alignment with farmer needs, as well as a way to evaluate and assess proposed technologies. Ankita shared POSE’s restrictions on what it will fund and her own ongoing ‘laundry list of possible projects for GOAT to tackle’. Juliet and Jamie mentioned working on a synthesis of some group needs (?).
Calix called the meeting and polled the group to determine a meeting in 2 weeks. The group then check-out with reflections and suggestions for next steps.
Everyone’s points combined
- Future meetings
- Facilitation guide for these meetings
- Preparing for what’s next in this conversation
- Synthesizing roles / categories
- Needs of the community
- Having a shared project can help us get there
Actions Items
- Read up on POSE
- Followup meeting in two weeks
- synthesis document
- Getting a set of ongoing work dates on a shared calendar
- Shared document for Grant brainstorm
Agenda
15 minutes check in
20 minutes on Funding
20 minutes on Suggestion board
10 minute check out