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Organizing Circle Meeting: 2024 9 April (Tuesday) 1200 UTC

M MarieVC (social.coop/@MarieVC) Public Seen by 12

The Organizing Circle for social.coop will meet 2024 9 April (Tuesday) 1200 - 1330 UTC. We will meet here: https://socialcoop.meet.coop/kat-aiw-mpv-6vv (the meeting may or may not be recorded). A tentative agenda is to be consented to at the start of the call:

1200 [5 min] ADMIN

  • Who is here?

  • Does anyone need to leave early?

  • Confirm our next call on 23 April 1200 UTC

  • Review recap from last call

  • Who is note taking?

  • Who is facilitating? Kathe

1205 [15 min] Check in:

  • How are you showing up today? What are you bringing into the space? [https://www.nycnvc.org/feelings]

  • What is something that everyone seems to enjoy but you don't? How do you feel about that?

1220 [5 min] Updates: What is the status of your to-do items? Can someone help you?

  • Call a round to check in with people

1225 [5 min] Updates from working circles

  • Finance

  • Tech

  • Community

  • Legal - defunct

1230 [5 min] Update: What was said by the group in active Loomio threads. Do we need to respond to anything or integrate something into our discussion?

1235 [20 min] Review: Evaluating the process documenting the last two decisions from our 26 March meeting. What went well? What can be improved?

1255 [15 min] Formulation/Decision:

  • How do we want to formalize note taking, recaps, facilitation, cross-links from other groups, and agenda creation as roles? Are there other roles that we want to formalize?

  • Reviewing/adding to the backlog items: What should we talk about in the next 2-4 calls?

1310 [10 min] Tasks: What are you taking out of this call as a task or todo item?

1320 [10 min] Feedback: What worked well with this call and what could be improved? Where would you like more flexibility in this circle? Where would you like more structure? Explain why.

Backlog items: The items below are not on the active agenda but should be addressed at some point in the future

  • SAGE 3 https://sage3.sagecommons.org/?page_id=921

  • How do we deal with liability as an organization? Do we need to consider some kind of incorporation or legal entity? If so where?

  • Strategically, how do we provide a framework for the Finance circle to help manage surplus?

  • Ask for training on 'what it means to be an admin' to orientate new admins.

KT

Kathe TB Tue 9 Apr 2024 1:58PM

Recap

Today I suspect we had some timezone crosses with the EU switch. We still had a good showing with over half of Organizing Circle attending. Our next call is going to be in two weeks (April 23) at 1200UTC. We do have a recording of this call [[past in recording when posted here]]

We had some check-in on personal to-do items and other working group activities in social.coop. We heard back from @MarieVC (social.coop/@MarieVC) and @Kathe TB about their experimentation with Loomio decisions and wikipedia documentation; expect a decision thread on this shortly. We started talking through operational roles and how to support redundancy in this group (see backlog for additional items).

Backlog:

  • Operational roles: Defining, evaluating, and rotating

  • How do we support our maintainers and moderators? How are we revising and improving that support?

  • Training requests: 1) What does it mean to be an admin on Mastodon/Loomio/...? 2) Facilitation and discussion moderation 3) sociocracy and governance

  • Generative conflict: How do we deal with conflict in the group? Do we need a code of conduct practice?

  • Paying members of organizing circle for their work.

  • SAGE 3 https://sage3.sagecommons.org/?page_id=921

  • How do we deal with liability as an organization? Do we need to consider some kind of incorporation or legal entity? If so where?

  • Strategically, how do we provide a framework for the Finance circle to help manage surplus?