Newcastle CoTech Gathering
We're hosting the winter 2019 CoTech gathering at the Star & Shadow Community/Co-Operative Cinema in Newcastle! This is a thread for making communal decisions relating to the details, e.g. dates
Poll Created Tue 10 Sep 2019 11:26AM
Dates for the gathering Closed Sun 15 Sep 2019 10:02PM
Hi all! Venue got back to me with some provisional dates to choose from, so here they are :) sorry they couldn't be sooner, the venue is very popular for community events and this is the earliest they're free!
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Thursday 12 - Friday 13 December | 50.0% | 5 |
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Friday 13 - Saturday 14 December | 50.0% | 5 |
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| Undecided | 0% | 109 |
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10 of 119 people have participated (8%)
Chris Booth (Form & Function) Tue 10 Sep 2019 1:15PM
Voting for Thursday/Friday, but the other choice would also be fine at this stage.
Animorph Co-op Thu 12 Sep 2019 10:12AM
So far we have held gatherings/hacks only on week days, curious to see how it pans out if we do some work on Saturday. Would more people be able to make it?
Chris Croome (Webarchitects Co-operative) Fri 13 Sep 2019 12:49PM
Could do either option.
Poll Created Fri 1 Nov 2019 12:05PM
Food, Glorious Food! Closed Fri 8 Nov 2019 11:01AM
During October's call a suggestion was made to cater lunch and/or dinner ourselves, using the Star & Shadow kitchen. Of course this will require volunteers, and a point was raised that this might take people away from their working groups
You can select multiple options and add new ones
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I think that we should order food in so that people can focus on working groups | 37.5% | 3 |
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I would be happy to help doing the dishes | 37.5% | 3 |
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I am willing to volunteer for Friday lunch | 12.5% | 1 |
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I am willing to volunteer for Saturday lunch | 12.5% | 1 |
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| I think that a talking-focussed working group should be assigned to prepare food | 0.0% | 0 | ||||
| I would prefer to prepare dinner than go to a local restaurant on Friday | 0.0% | 0 | ||||
| Undecided | 0% | 116 |
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4 of 120 people have participated (3%)
Jonathan Thu 7 Nov 2019 8:45PM
I have volunteered and I would be happy in a kitchen (any time, really :) but i am also voting "I think we should order food in" with a stronger preference, because I think especially for people who are travelling to Newcastle it's quite a stretch, and if they need to save their energy for the conferency stuff that would be fair enough. Also consider the amount of people required in the kitchen it's got to be a ratio of about, what, 1:4 ? If so, around a quarter of the attenders, it's a lot...
Poll Created Mon 6 Jan 2020 6:57PM
Reimburse Code-Operative for gathering costs Closed Tue 14 Jan 2020 8:03AM
It was suggested by a few people that we could apply to CoTech for reimbursement on the costs of the gathering
Most of the expenses were covered by the ticket sales and a generous donation of £150.00 from Form & Function (https://www.formandfunction.coop) who couldn't attend the gathering. The remaining amount which we're asking to be refunded is £217.00
The total costs of the gathering came to
£880 venue hire + lunches (star & shadow co-op)
£200 band (expenses - they came up from Leeds but didn't charge us)
£187 booze
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£1,267 expenses
the income was
£900 ticket sales
£150 donation
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£1,050
The process for proposing fund spending can be found on the wiki
If anyone's against this there's no hard feelings, we were expecting to top up anything which ticket sales didn't cover when we agreed to do it
Results
| Results | Option | % of points | Voters | |
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Agree | 100.0% | 9 |
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| Abstain | 0.0% | 0 | ||
| Disagree | 0.0% | 0 | ||
| Undecided | 0% | 110 |
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9 of 119 people have participated (7%)
Shaun Fensom
Tue 7 Jan 2020 10:40AM
On behalf of CBN
Animorph Co-op · Fri 8 Nov 2019 11:04AM
Perhaps we could cover (at least some) food expenses from CoTech Fund? We could set up a separate vote for that... Btw. is there an estimate of how many people are coming?