Wiki page for Organizing Circle

We also discussed wiki. We want the wiki to provide both onboarding information as well as document decisions and policy made by the circle. @Eduardo Mercovich very kindly took over setting up wiki pages for us. We need to work this into our pattern of work to keep updated and still need to integrate how we are going to revisit items at the end of the term.

Hello everyone.

This is a proposal for the OC wiki home page (the index links are not real, just showing the structure).

[Brief description paragraph of what the OC is today, ending with links to [current working topics], [help for newcomers] and [About the OC] in the bottom of the page (or another)].

• Are you new in Social.Coop?

• Current working topics

  • Topic A

  • Topic B

  • Topic N

• Meeting minutes

• About the OC

  • Members

  • Operations

  • Creation…

Are you new in Social.Coop?

Some pointers to other important pages:

• policies and agreements

• how to start

• what other WG we have.

• ¿Anything else?

Current agreements

• agreement A (brief line or TD structure with link to discussion or page if it is big)

• agreement B (brief line or TD structure with link to discussion or page if it is big)

• agreement C (brief line or TD structure with link to discussion or page if it is big)

• agreement N (brief line or TD structure with link to discussion or page if it is big)
  

Current working topics

Topic A

Brief description/ current status + links to appropriate places (loomio, microblogging conversations, etc.)

Topic B

Brief description/ current status + links to appropriate places (loomio, microblogging conversations, etc.)

Topic N

Brief description/ current status + links to appropriate places (loomio, microblogging conversations, etc.)

Meeting minutes

[in chronological -inverse?- order]

• dd/mm/yy > main keywords/ topics [with link to loomio]

• dd/mm/yy > main keywords/ topics [with link to loomio]

• dd/mm/yy > main keywords/ topics [with link to loomio]

• dd/mm/yy > main keywords/ topics [with link to loomio]

• dd/mm/yy > main keywords/ topics [with link to loomio]

• dd/mm/yy > main keywords/ topics [with link to loomio]

About the OC

Members

• MarieVC social.coop/@MarieVC. Also in the WG1, WG2, WGN (if any)

• Kathe TB social.coop/@ktoddbrown. Also in the WG1, WG2, WGN (if any)

• Flancian @[email protected]. Also in the WG1, WG2, WGN (if any)

• Caitlin Waddick, @[email protected]. Also in the WG1, WG2, WGN (if any)

• Eduardo Mercovich @[email protected]. Also in the WG1, WG2, WGN (if any)

• Matt Noyes @[email protected]. Also in the CWG, WG2, WGN (if any)

Operations

[When and where we meet, modus operandi, etc.]

• Every 2 weeks

• Meet.Coop room: https://socialcoop.meet.coop/kat-aiw-mpv-6vv

• Sociocratic style meetings

• We make minutes [like so]

• keep the current agreements here in the wiki.

• members

• etc.

Creation…

… and election discussions on loomio: https://www.loomio.com/p/OI8kEjVz/social-coop-organizing-circle-proposal).]

WDYT? :)

Copying over the recap of our discussion here https://www.loomio.com/d/RtGvSgIJ/organizing-circle-meeting-2024-19-june-wednesday-1200-utc/4

We decided to draft two wiki pages incorporating the below feedback into this original proposed structure.

• Good introduction to the page with a kick-off paragraph of what to expect/purpose on the page.

• Overall a 'new to Social Coop' section is fantastic but probably deserves it's own page, we recommend cross linking this page in a side-bar or header/footer sections.

• Current agreements/policy section should get pealed off to it's own page. Note to integrate the review of these pages into the annual rhythms moving forward.

• Current working topics as well as the minutes/notes will require a lot of maintenance to keep up with. We decided to link in the general 2024 recaps loomio thread here instead https://www.loomio.com/d/QBtcgaOq/organizing-circle-recaps-2024-

• We were torn on including a members list. There were some concerns that this might be burdensome to keep up to date. We pinned this for future discussion

• We lined the operations section here as well as the origin/creation story for the group

Thanks so much for giving us some structure to work with here @Eduardo Mercovich ! We are going to review/revisit this with some new wiki pages next call.

Noting here that we need to resolve duplications between https://wiki.social.coop/wiki/Governance#Membership_aspects and https://wiki.social.coop/wiki/Organizing_Circle_policy

Discussion on https://wiki.social.coop/wiki/Organizing_Circle here. What is missing? Is there anything that is incorrect on here?

Thoughts on https://wiki.social.coop/wiki/Organizing_Circle_policy What is missing? Is there anything incorrect on here?

Recap from https://www.loomio.com/d/xUDqgTRa/organizing-circle-meeting-2024-3-july-wednesday-1200-utc/4

We have a wiki page https://wiki.social.coop/wiki/Organizing_Circle that was overall favorably seen. Called out specifically was the link to loomio threads and groups, sketch of the agendas, simple language, and layout of the decision log. Suggested revisions are to pull out the links from the text and move them to a list at the bottom of the section, as well as adding an annual rhythm for overall meeting topics that includes regular revision of the wiki.

Hi folks, I found this interesting mind map, made after a social.coop strategy meeting in Nov. 2022. It might be useful to go over it together...