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Thu 19 Dec 2024 6:09PM

2025 planning for Organizing Circle

KT Kathe TB Public Seen by 5

We are looking to plan out major topic discussion for the 2025 organizing circle cycle. In this thread we'll conduct a poll to harvest idea's and propose a general structure for the meetings next year.

KT

Kathe TB Thu 19 Dec 2024 6:16PM

Agenda template

Ask of the group - is this template good enough for us to work off of in the next year? What is not clear? What is missing here? What can we trim out to build in more time for other discussion?

Below outlines a tentative agenda, to be revised and consented to at the start of the meeting.

1300 [4 min] ADMIN

  • Who is here?

  • Does anyone need to leave early?

  • Confirm our next call date

  • Who is note taking?

  • Who is facilitating?

1304 [5 min] Check in:

1309 [1 min] Recaps

  • Review recap from last call

1310 [5 min] Updates: What is the status of your to-do items? Can someone help you?

1315 [20 min] Updates from working circles

  • Finance

  • Tech

  • Community

  • Legal

1345 [15 min] Critical topic

This topic is set coming into the meeting and should address emergent issues. It should be decision oriented and resolve in 1-2 meetings if at all possible.

1400 [30 min] Planning topic

This topic is set at the start of the year and structured around three decision phases - scoping (what is the issue at hand, how do we define it?), formulation (what are all possible solutions?), and decision (what are we going to do? How will we know if it is successful?)

1420 [5 min] Backlog:

What topics emerged that we want to revisit as a critical topic or in next year's planned discussion?

1425 [5 min] Feedback: How are you leaving this call?

KT

Kathe TB Thu 19 Dec 2024 6:27PM

2025 topics

We have roughly 25 meetings a year which gives us 5-6 topics we can discuss in a three phase process - scoping, formulation, and decision.

What policy driven topics do we want to revisit in 2025?

KT

Kathe TB Thu 19 Dec 2024 6:35PM

  1. How can we build more capacity for meeting facilitation and working group administration?

    • Plan out sociocracy workshop goals and customizations for social.coop

  2. What is the separation between coop-wide decisions and working group decisions?

    • Document decisions on wikipedia

  3. How can we increase involvement of social.coop members in working groups and social media?

    • What is our onboarding workflow and orientation documentation?