Toronto Workers Co-op Meeting 9 Jan 2019

🗓 Calendar

Time: 9 Jan 2019 6:00 PM ET
Location: https://appear.in/offline
Attending: ben, udit, yurko, elon, garry, patcon, dc

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Agenda

• Go thru items-to-resolve-in-2018
• Status update from each working group
• Meeting schedules for 2019
• IPFS grant status
• Immediate items that need to happen

Notes

• Name: Dripline?
  • ben, elon, yurko think it’s alright
  • udit likes it
  • patcon it’s alright, but…
• M/V: people haven’t added wordsmithing aside from Ben
• Goal: Vote on name, mission, vision wordsmithing by end next week (January 18)
• Loomio issues resolved, one is just a UI/design issue
• Financial WG:
  • Post CU questions on: https://loomio.cryptography.dog/d/LhEQ3sG1/what-do-we-need-from-a-financial-institution
  • Collect items and visit two CUs
• Governance WG:
  • dc: need to be more ppl involved in this convo, before the end. mostly just me right now, and this might be dicey.
• Business Planning:
  • Meeting to discuss
  • Non-profit discussion
• Infrastructure / Operations:
  • People to send feedback on what plain language docs are most important
    • https://loomio.cryptography.dog/d/BHk6aI1r/bootstrap-organizational-processes
• sign up for canvas
• didn’t think nonprofit was first step. expands complexity.
• ben: ryan@freegeek says whole class of grants that require
• Non-profit vs. regular worker coop
  • There are differences:
    • Can pay salaries, spend operating costs,
    • How surplus is handled, and where decisions about that are encoded (there are operational differences)
    • How equity can be raised
    • Reporting requirements (dc: tho assume we are under some of the audit thresholds)
  • dc: not finding any clear examples of Ontario-based examples of non-profit worker cooperatives, should reach our -IPFS grant wait until Jan 20 to ping PL

Actionable Items

• udit: Move results of our Retreat to GitHub
• all: Contribute to Org Name and M/V, have finalized Name and M/V by Jan 18
  • all: add further proposals by weekend
  • dc: Mon Jan 14 – set up polls on Name and M/V
• patcon: Reach out to OCA about non-profit coop
  • dc: can you loop me in if by email?
• all: 5-6 pm for next meeting and one more in Jan, monthly “all hands” after
  • set up in calendar
• udit, patcon, ben: Discuss business planning tomorrow in person
• ??: Jan 20 ping PL if haven’t heard anything

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