Ratify the (Initial) Constitution
Luke Agile
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What is this thread?
This thread's purpose is to agree that the constitution outlined below is an accurate representation of the current situation.
What is this thread not?
This thread is not the thread to try and devise a perfect and all-encompassing constitution. That can and will be done gradually over the course of CoTech's life. Once we have agreed the starting constitution then we can start amending it as we see fit.
So:
If you have any critical concerns that the constitution below a.) is materially inaccurate or b.) absolutely requires something which is missing, please let us know.
LINK: This is the constitution as it stands: https://wiki.coops.tech/wiki/Wortley_Hall_2017/CoTech_Constitution
P.S. there was mention of adding a dissolution clause but I am not certain of this as CoTech is not encorporated etc.
Poll Created Mon 4 Dec 2017 1:43PM
Ratify the Initial Constitution Closed Tue 12 Dec 2017 1:20PM
Agreeing would mean that we take the initial constitution and use it as a basis for iterating on henceforth.
I am aware there are potentially already changes people want to make to decision making / loomio for example.
Results
| Results | Option | % of points | Voters | |
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Agree | 88.9% | 8 |
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| Abstain | 11.1% | 1 |
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| Disagree | 0.0% | 0 | ||
| Block | 0.0% | 0 | ||
| Undecided | 0% | 95 |
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9 of 104 people have participated (8%)
Harry "Outlandish" Robbins
Tue 5 Dec 2017 11:28AM
I'll be super sad if someone stops this on a technicality - it would be great to know how we make decisions
Chris Lowis (Go Free Range)
Thu 7 Dec 2017 6:34PM
On behalf of Go Free Range
Chris Croome (Webarchitects Co-operative)
Thu 7 Dec 2017 7:28PM
We are not going to have a chance to discuss this at a Webarchitects committee meeting before the end of the vote so this is my personal vote I'm afraid, abstain as the fact that we are UK based is missing from the document.
Aaron Hirtenstein Mon 4 Dec 2017 2:53PM
@felixwave Loomio is often my go-to place for stuff like this but in this case the constitution is their articles which is a very different thing from what we are discussing here as CoTech is not a 'thing' yet so the aim is much lower at this stage.
Chris Croome (Webarchitects Co-operative) Mon 4 Dec 2017 1:53PM
Looks good to me but It misses that we are UK based, I just posted this to the talk page.
Aaron Hirtenstein Mon 4 Dec 2017 2:51PM
The main motivation for this is to have something in writing that aims to describe how CoTech functions so I think we should focus on passing this unless anything is actually in accurate.
So... it may be missing the purpose but the Manifesto aims to cover this. Should they be in the same place? Maybe, but perhaps not a blocker to this proposal?
UK-based - really good point @chriscroome -not sure how we missed this. I would suggest an amendment to add an 4th criterium for membership.
Sion Whellens (Principle Six) Wed 6 Dec 2017 3:01PM
@aaronhirtenstein @chriscroome What would be the rationale for specifying either UK-only or UK-based in the constitution?
Chris Croome (Webarchitects Co-operative) Wed 6 Dec 2017 3:41PM
I don't have the URL's to hand but given an hour one evening I could collect references to all the times that the question "are we a network of UK based co-ops or an international network" has come up, if needs be, my recollection is that we are, in practice a UK based network and my suggestion was that the documentation of our existing custom and practice should include this.
Deleted account · Mon 4 Dec 2017 1:51PM
Great but, unfortunately, I think it is missing something, 'Purpose'.
I have been referring to Loomio's own documents (See part 1); https://loomio.coop/constitution.html