@Caitlin Waddick, @[email protected] I can't do that time because it is very, very early for me.

I was able to join (finally) and next meeting will be at 6 AM Pacific, 9 AM Eastern, 13:00 UTC.

Quick summary: (though do see/post link to shared minutes)

We will add OC:FWG to the agenda of our next FWG meeting (TBD) and will coordinate a meeting between a few members of FWG and OC before end of summer (US/CA Labour Day).

I raised idea of adding legal to FWG as it fits, though legal as in “corporate” (a word I use liberally; coops are corps here in CA) — and ill add that “risk” should touch every working group.

I added a yearly touch-base with Innovation (P6) as part of the annual cadence OC is establishing. For now, suggesting Oct. (a year since my in person meeting with Innovation).

To Do:

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  schedule FWG

• ✔️

  schedule FWG:OC (after next FWG)

• ✔️

  reach out to Innovation (P6)

The Organizing Circle has a Wiki page: https://wiki.social.coop/wiki/Organizing_Circle.

Organizing Circle Recaps (2024) are here: https://www.loomio.com/d/QBtcgaOq/organizing-circle-recaps-2024-

LEGAL WORKING GROUP -- I started a thread for the Organizing Circle. [Clarify: This text is copy-pasted from the thread that I started in OC group.]

Legal Working Group (LWG): REACTIVATE! (tasks for the Organizing Circle)

Social.Coop needs a Legal Working Group (LWG). This thread is for this topic: How will we constitute and reactivate an LWG that meets at least 3 times per year. What are the legal issues that are arising or could arise for S.C.?

BACKSTORY: The Legal Working Group has never actually existed or met. Over the years, several people, notably @Nathan Schneider of the Finance Working Group, have posted to recruit membership to the LWG. And, several people have replied to express their interest and ability. Various legal tasks have been discussed and addressed by other working groups. Notably, FWG has recently been seeking fiscal sponsorship with the viewpoint that fiscal sponsorship is a "legal shield."

"Finance (Working Group)" is how we bootstrap Legal (Working Group)." -- spoken in today's Finance Working Group meeting. However, FWG members decided to make a new effort to reconstitute and reactivate the LWG.

Please share efforts and ideas in this thread.

• Past discussions:

  • https://www.loomio.com/d/qk32LA6y/time-to-revive-the-legal-working-group-

  • https://www.loomio.com/d/k4ShMRes/remove-the-governance-legal-working-group-

  • https://www.loomio.com/d/sdmJuypO/legal-volunteers-please-get-your-new-working-group-started-

Just to clarify: I started the thread in the Organizing Circle section of Loomio, and I pasted a copy here to share that I did it. Now, I'm thinking I could have started the thread in the main part of Loomio that is not in any one working group.

The Organizing Circle will meet with the Finance Working Group on Thursday, Sept 26, 1 pm UTC -5:00 (=Eastern Time in US & Canada) at https://socialcoop.meet.coop/kat-aiw-mpv-6vv(which is the OC's usual meeting location). This meeting will end at 1:50 pm. Both groups need to think about an agenda.

Thank you for organizing, Caitlin!

Sep 22, 2024 6:56:30 PM Caitlin Waddick, Finance Working Group for Social.Coop and Organizing Circle (via Loomio) :



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The Organizing Circle will meet with the Finance Working Group on Thursday, Sept 26, 1 pm UTC -5:00 (=Eastern Time in US & Canada) at https://socialcoop.meet.coop/kat-aiw-mpv-6vv(which ( https://socialcoop.meet.coop/kat-aiw-mpv-6vv(which ) is the OC's usual meeting location). This meeting will end at 1:50 pm. Both groups need to think about an agenda.

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Kathe TB · social.coop/@ktoddbrown · September 8

I'll throw in this as a possible set of discussion prompts:

• What does FWG do? What are your workflow?

• What do you want to be doing?

• How can OC help support your work (which connects to the topics above)?

Eduardo Mercovich · @[email protected] · September 9

• Does the FWG has a clear, explicit and known domain/scope so as to be sure wether it is sovereign to take desicions? If not, that is a point to work on.

• Are the FWG communications/ reports standarized? (like every 3, 6 or 12 months and what do thy cover). If not, ídem. :)

Update of Oct. 24: the OC met today, and @Kathe TB agreed to organize a meeting of people interested in forming a Legal Working Group. Yay! ... I had reported that I had been trying to get a meeting together with Nathan and someone else, and how previously Nathan had posted to Social.Coop tagging people who might be interested and that those people were not available/interested.

Fantastic! This is so important.

On 10/24/24 08:45, Caitlin Waddick,
Finance Working Group for Social.Coop and Organizing Circle (via
Loomio) wrote:

With my innovation.coop hat on I'm interested to be involved here in some respect. We've been working for some time on how we can assist groups like social.coop by providing a cooperative legal umbrella/biome to provide shelter. We're keen to work with you to take this forward if it can help.