2019-03-13 Toronto Workers Co-op: All-Hands Meeting

Time: Wed, Mar 13 @ 5-6pm ET Location: https://appear.in/offline Attending: patcon, udit, dcalk, yurko, elon, benhylau

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Agenda

Will people speak freely being recorded?
- sched call with co-op devs. waited. patcon made protocol for humane recording.
Read summaries > watch videos (what is a good way to capture information to be accessible?)
Will this support us or future folks?

Business Planning: Plan is half filled
Finance: Not much happened
- writing grants together with others (eg. Law & Design CoLab, Dames Making Games)
Governance: Expect to summarize profit vs. non-profit piece soon
Infra & Ops: Holding

Session to write grants together
- Sit in the same room to write independent grants together
  - Dames Making Games
  - Law & Design Colab
“Don’t meet any less than once a week”
Infra group needs to draft a process to decide whether to take on a project
When there is a RFP, how to go about it:
- Call a meeting
- These are the skills needed, temp check on proposal, do we want to commit
- Timeline for decision
Personal networks to draw on for skills we don’t have in house
Udit: short timeline projects have a sponsor: assemble the team
- Proposal: “Project Steward”
Dawn:
- I think there might be a way that we have different risk tolerances
- How do we figure out how to say yes to each other as much as possible (in line with values and 7 cooperative principles)
ben: Risks I felt:
- No legal entity yet
- Don’t know how to quote / bill / distribute
- Unknown aggregate capacity
- Lack second-hop talent / capacity network
- Don’t know how to say yes to each other
ben feels we need much more of the above figured out
dcwalk feels like we can figure out a subset of what have to be decided, knowing the rest will involve minimal risk (we all know each other and have worked together for years)
udit: thinking about per-project risk

Voted: Consensed to switch to weekly meeting schedule, this timeslot

https://loomio.cryptography.dog/p/SOsB0eai
no strong objections to top two: hypha, dripline, no blocks on those
one with most concerns… (random assembly) is lowest in the ranking, only higher than chosing a new name
CRITICAL TODO: Ask Garry to vote with comment: “we have voted, no strong opinions, also–discussed that we think branding will be important to set the tone of any name”

benhylau: Schedule CoopDevs call (without recording)
pat + udit: To fill business plan sheet
dcwalk: set up calendar to weekly meetings
dcwalk: ask garry to vote on loomio name (by email, all can see and chime in ;))

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