Toronto Workers Co-op Meeting 31 Oct 2018

🗓 Calendar
📑 Retreat Planning Board

Time: 31 Oct 2018 5:30pm ET
Location: https://appear.in/offline
Attending: elon, yurko, ben, udit, dc, garry

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Agenda

1. Previous Business
   • Reading! From Reading Pool
2. Revisit TODOs from last planning meeting (they were all covered)
3. Share reading thoughts
4. Write down concrete retreat goals
5. Brainstorm retreat activities

Notes

1. Share reading thoughts

• Ben: Info Civics, Do Artifacts Have Politics

  • Social side of stuff?
  • Enspiral People’s Agreement and Co-op
  • Notes:
    • Contributor v. member divide
    • member responsibilities, timescales (quarters)
    • “Enspiral is simply made up of relationships”
    • Ernst Young: Risk Map, project monitoring

• Dawn: ICA+Enspiral Stuff, Design Justice stuff

• Udit: Tech Freelancers guide, co-op principles, enspiral some ostrom stuff. Notes: https://hackmd.io/NBVk_Y8bR42x1mAfwPqKqg?both

• Dawn: From what people have read, how does that make you think about retreat format?

Readings making us think about the meeting? - Framework to make sure we get what we want out of it - Need clarifty on what we can accomplish in the time we have - Stimuli for people to react to - e.g. Loomio for list of values (lets prototype 20 to 5), time committments, etc…

• should we reiterate goals for retreat?
• Have people tackle each section and be responsible for output?
• Topics that should be incorporated into the vision?

Recap of what we have agreed

Quick re-cap of format for retreat

• pre-read
• half-day remote work session
• follow-up async work

Re-cap of suggestions

• Prompts/provocations/questionaire to ensure everyone has spent time thinking through their values and general involvement

Discussing outcomes for planning session:

• Consense on mission and vision
• Draft and alignment on values
• Plan and timeline to establish coop legal entity
• Identified Governance Considerations
  • How do we resolve conflicts
  • How do we make decisions
  • How do we share common pool resources
  • Roles in ecosystem

What Things Need to be done?

• Agenda
  • length/amount of time,
  • activities description,
    • values prioritization based on nesta toolkit
    • reflect and respond to prompts
    • freeform hangout
    • roadmapping activity (with list of legal reqs)
  • session goals,
  • any outputs (e.g, adopted mission))
• Format/Hours + Poll for timing
• Define pre-work
• Set up process/platform for pre-work (maybe loomio? hackpad?)
  • definitions, exerpts of current meetings (reading insight)
• Set up venue (e.g. inperson component? remote?)
• Define post-work

Explicit outcomes (TWO_PAGER):

• One-two sentence mission
• Two sentence vision
• Bullet-points of member roles
• Bullet-points of types of projects
• Bullet-points on governance (dec’n, conflict, ways of working, facetime)
• Bullet-points of how we fit into larger ecosystem
• Preliminary roadmap dates/deliverables
• Discrete tasks (and who is doing them)
• Indication of how tasks are tracked

Brainstorm

• Reading group for the year?
• Opportunity to state one’s interest/avail of involvement
  • (dawn: maybe with some time after so they don’t have to decide immediately)
  • How do we think ourselves into an ecosystem
• Solidarity/allies identification (who is working on similar things, how do we be together in the same types of struggle)

Actionable Items

• Co-work agenda (udit+ben)
• meet next wek 16:30 wed to review/chat
• set up poll to firm dates

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