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Wed 20 Nov 2024 11:52PM

Determine a Meeting Notes Location for OC and WGs

CWF Caitlin Waddick, Finance Working Group for Social.Coop and Organizing Circle Public Seen by 6

Maybe: do we need a consistent place for all groups to store meeting notes and agendas.

If a SC member -- new or old-- wants to learn about a Working Group's activities... how does someone find meeting notes? And, if a prospective new member or a new member trying to "onboard" to a Working Group or the OC, then how does a new person learn the history and processes?

What are the needs for keeping records? Where should we keep them? What qualities do we want in a location? Conventionally, many people are familiar with Google documents or MS Office/Teams and Dropbox. For Social.Coop, we want a location that uses FLOSS -- Free Libre Open Source Software. And, we have the budget to pay for services from a cooperative. What are some options?

  • Riseup.net ... I think it is free, minimal editing functions, ... to store documents for a year.

  • NextCloud.com is the cloud document server used by the May First Movement And, Social.Coop has a membership in May First, and it allows us to use NextCloud for free... AmIRight?!

Another thought: maybe meeting notes are entered in one place, in real time, then later -- say, at the end of the year, -- get moved to another location, such as the Wiki.

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MarieVC (social.coop/@MarieVC) Thu 21 Nov 2024 5:51AM

Thanks to @Kathe TB, all the recaps (easier to read than the minutes) of our OC meetings are available to all Social.Coop members here:

https://www.loomio.com/d/QBtcgaOq/organizing-circle-recaps-2024-

CWF

Caitlin Waddick, Finance Working Group for Social.Coop and Organizing Circle Thu 21 Nov 2024 2:11PM

In today's meeting, we also talked about using the Wiki as a place to draft and develop working documents. @Matt Noyes : Is the CWG using NextCloud documents? @Eduardo Mercovich: what can work?

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Eduardo Mercovich Thu 21 Nov 2024 8:09PM

Hi Caitlin.

In today's meeting, we also talked about using the Wiki as a > place to draft and
develop working documents.

I cannot agree more that 150%, sadly... ;DDD

@Matt Noyes : Is the CWG using NextCloud documents?

I'm eager to know too...

@Eduardo Mercovich: what can work?

The wiki is super ok for me. Actually, our wiki engine supports group
permissions, so -if we find it necessary- we could even work on some
pages that are only accessible by us.

CWF

Caitlin Waddick, Finance Working Group for Social.Coop and Organizing Circle Thu 5 Dec 2024 2:26PM

@Matt Noyes and @Flancian ... @Eduardo Mercovich : let's find a time for you and me to meet to talk through these ideas. And, maybe you can send me 2 times that work for you, and I'll choose .. via direct messaging on Social.Coop or email.

CWF

Caitlin Waddick, Finance Working Group for Social.Coop and Organizing Circle Thu 5 Dec 2024 4:43PM

I will try a RiseUp pad: https://pad.riseup.net/p/socialcoop-OC-keep

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