2019-05-15 Toronto Workers Co-op: All-Hands Meeting
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GDriveTime: 17:00 - 18:00 EDT
Location: https://meet.jit.si/offline
Attending:
- yurko
- elon
- garry
- dc (cultivator)
- ben
- patcon
Notetaker:
- benedict
- [~] dc
- [~] elon
- [~] garry
- patcon
- udit
- yurko
[TOC]
Agenda
- Previous Action Items
- patcon: review and feedback on working open statement for submission to handbook
- all: collect examples for handbook toolchain discussion
- dc: cultivate May
- patcon: cultivate June
- patcon: setup google drive
- dc: schedule design jam THU
- infraops: rename chat channel name
- infraops: migrate services from .club/.dog to .coop domain
- Run through of Announcements and Updates (add below)
- Quick Working Group Updates (10 mins)
-
Business Planning
- Design Jam recap
- Finance
- Governance
- Infra & Ops
-
Business Planning
- Discussion
- Check-in on remote participation and trust
- how do we feel about the degree of remote participation?
- how do we have high trust relationships with members?
-
early-MAY Review business plan and Y1 strategic/financial plan. Key discussion points:
- Competitive positioning
- Project pricing
- Sweat equity
- Wage (Living Wage, Guaranteed Income)
- Relationship of “billable” and “non-billable” work and compensation
- Check-in on note-taking software
- +template change? “Announcements,” “Standing Items (e.g., opportunities, project check-in)” section
- Design jamming continues
- mid-MAY Articles of Incorporation
- Opportunities and Proposals
- Hosting our own cloud (e.g., Nextcloud instance) for others too
- Check-in on Transition of Infrastructure (and Cleanup)
- decision: using shortlinks in official way
- end-MAY Check-in dc’s research/study proposal
- beginning-JUN Finances software
- Check-in on remote participation and trust
Announcements
- Ben absent for the next few calls (May 08-??)
- Udit absent for call on May 15, and unavailable June to mid-July
- Net-Centric Resources call recap (patcon)
- dc remote and in different timezones June 10 - July 29, should be able to attend many meetings but miss some
- August/September Co-op social
- patcon potentially remote for month or two in fall in London.
Notes
- Review of previous action items
- Toolchain discussion - one more week
- Review infra transfer and flag as actionable items
- Announcements section (please add in)
Working group updates
-
Business Planning
- Design Jam
- Initial vision
- Early development version of “vision board” - http://vision.hypha.coop/ , http://vision.hypha.coop/upload.php
- Design Jam
-
Finance
- Dejardins selected last call
- Waiting on incorporation for next steps
-
Governance
- Waiting on meeting with Fourth Pig (were given other leads)
- In person meeting with Danny Spitzberg time poll https://www.when2meet.com/?7825838-NfcEa
- Discussion Prioritization
- Remote participation and building trust
- beginning of business planning
Trust and Remote Participation
- What is a high trust relationship?
- patcon: regular? in person? (weekly)
- patcon: this is a long term relationship
- between co-worker and friends
- empathy building
- dcwalk: degree of comfort necessary for a long-term working relationship
- dcwalk: echo long term relationship and repercussions of it
- what are the expectation of presentation of online spaces
- video call vs in-person meetings. disadvantage?
- how do we navigate not having a common meeting space
- patcon: various ways to mitigate these concerns, something to think about
- ben: previous remote workers and they flagged issues with only interacting in one “channel” – e.g., slack
- yurko: an issue at current company
- patcon: a virtual meeting space with monitors
- ben: weekly social - dev team + the community at a social space.
- garry: cadence/rituals that are casual and not project-specific always
- q&a:
- video calls … a block from some folks
- in person … commute is difficult
- How important is it to have physical in person time together?
- ben 5
- garry 4
- dcwalk 3
- Elon 3
- oʞɹn⅄ 2
- patcon 5
- Important to spend the time together early on, build trust and relationships
- Ben feels the important thing is we have a shared sense of what is a healthy relationship among members and make efforts to maintain that in whatever mean available
- Look at shifting the next meeting time
Business Planning
Follow Up
Actionable Items
- patcon: review and feedback on working open statement for submission to handbook
- all: collect examples for handbook toolchain discussion
- patcon: setup google drive
- infraops: migrate services from .club/.dog to .coop domain (loomio / jitsi name / experimental services (pw))
- all: review business plan in google docs
Upcoming Discussions
-
late-MAY Review business plan and Y1 strategic/financial plan. Key discussion points:
- Competitive positioning
- Project pricing
- Sweat equity
- Wage (Living Wage, Guaranteed Income)
- Relationship of “billable” and “non-billable” work and compensation
- Check-in on note-taking software
- +template change? “Announcements,” “Standing Items (e.g., opportunities, project check-in)” section
- Design jamming continues
- late-MAY Articles of Incorporation
- Opportunities and Proposals
- Hosting our own cloud (e.g., Nextcloud instance) for others too
- Check-in on Transition of Infrastructure (and Cleanup)
- decision: using shortlinks in official way
- early-JUN Check-in dc’s research/study proposal
- early-JUN Finances software