Proposal: that the Platform 6 Development Fund supports the first stage in the development of interactive online tools for co-operative development
Austen Cordasco
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The attached proposal for funding support has been submitted to, considered and passed by P6 Mission Circle and is now presented here for consideration by the P6 Community. Please raise any issues that you may have with it, requests for clarity, suggestions for improvement etc. The proposal may be modified or withdrawn as a result of our discussion. Assuming that it isn't laughed out of court, once all issues are resolved it will then go to the P6 Members Group, which is a subset of this group, for approval by vote, as per the P6 procedure for dealing with such applications.
Nathan Brown (Co-op Culture) Tue 5 Mar 2024 9:56AM
@Graham This is good news. Looking forward to seeing the finished item
Graham Thu 29 Feb 2024 8:40AM
Hi. Apologies - I wasn't aware of activity in this thread before now. As I recently communicated with Chris Funnell: it is nearly complete - there are a number of significant software updates that need to be implemented, and following that i need to ensure that the updates haven't broken anything. Then a bit of final testing and assuming that goes OK I'll work with Chris to get the thing ready for real world use (no doubt there will be some cosmetics and user-facing content to wrap around the core functionality). All of this was planned to happen last year, but got held up due to illness and unrelated personnel challenges on other projects. I'm aiming to get the above done in the next couple of weeks.
Nathan Brown (Co-op Culture) Wed 28 Feb 2024 6:32PM
@Cath M in Bentley (A Commune in the North/Radical Routes/Platform6) bump @Chris Funnell @Graham any update? we have yet another cohort of Barefoot learners starting in May (100 trained to date) and it would be great to share this with them. We could even incorporate it into the training as an exercise rather than critiquing the diagnostic tool from an infrastructure body we were given permission to use.
Nathan Brown (Co-op Culture) Wed 22 Nov 2023 6:59PM
@Cath M in Bentley (A Commune in the North/Radical Routes/Platform6) 2 years seems like a long time. Would love to have an idea of when it will be available. We have Barefoot practitioners keen to access shared tools so would love to point at this
Cath M in Bentley (A Commune in the North/Radical Routes/Platform6) Wed 22 Nov 2023 12:12PM
@Graham or @Chris Funnell can give a proper answer, but it was agreed and is still ring-fenced i believe and in progress but not complete,
Nathan Brown (Co-op Culture) Tue 21 Nov 2023 2:08PM
Whatever happened with this? Did P6 fund this, and if so where can it be found?
Graham Fri 10 Dec 2021 1:57PM
And the open source nature of the thing will make it easy for others to pick it up and carry the service on.
Graham Fri 10 Dec 2021 1:55PM
In such a circumstance the directors of Platform 6 would make every effort to ensure a secure cooperative home for the system for the long term.
Martin Meteyard Fri 10 Dec 2021 1:32PM
Thanks @Austen Cordasco . However I'm just wondering what happens if P6 ceases to trade?
Nathan Brown (Co-op Culture) · Wed 15 Jan 2025 11:10AM
@Graham @Chris Funnell Is there any news on this? We are starting a new Barefoot course on 4 Feb and it would be nice to be able to signpost to this tool. If we had sufficient run up we could incorporate it's use into the training, but that would need it to be available by 18th Feb. If it is not yet fully operational is the content available so future co-op developers could have a sneak preview? If the tool is going to be widely used it needs to be introduced to the practitioner community and this is a great opportunity to get embedded early in their careers before they start using something else