2019-11-06 ASYNC Hypha Worker Co-op: Standup Meeting

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Time: Wed, Nov 06, 2019 @ 5-5:30pm ASYNC
Location: https://jitsi.hypha.coop/hyphacoop
Attending: ben, garry, patcon, dc, yurko
Cultivator: dc
Notetaker: dc

Agenda

• Standup (3 min/person)
  1. What did you work on this past week?
  2. What do you plan to work on this coming week?
  3. What are your blockers?

Standup Notes

• Opening thought/question:
  • Ben, now on daylight savings, changed!
  • Dawn not out ahead :/ burned off that extra hour
• Person: Ben
  • last:
    • early distributed.press discussions, started weekly calls with near-term objective
    • want deck/website to discuss concept. Maybe longerterm wanting a research project in that space. More clarity in next month
    • lots of aether catch-up, feature work. Some gap/need for strategy work. Sales, audience strategy. Interest?
    • Communications tools, ready to send PR
    • Discussion about pay period next all hands
  • next:
    • Decision-making practices discussion
    • Set up quickbooks, maybe transferwise
  • blockers:
    • Tax form to Burak (who has to decide?)
• Person: Garry
  • last:
    • Coordination, brand meetings
  • next:
    • Priority for next weeks, working on branding project. Assist on that
    • Things that come out of this (e.g., website, decks, etc…)
  • blockers:
    • Having the workshop happen is a blocker. Scheduling a new time (working with our limited availability)
• Person: Yurko
  • last:
    • banking situation. Trying to figure out how things work.
  • next:
    • Credit card info, getting ready to submit an application
  • blockers:
    • How to get peoples input? Blocker to a finished proposal
• Person: Patcon
  • last:
    • mostly Civic Tech stuff in Saint John
    • time to first convo with luisa, coordinating around that, including the one that didn’t happen today. Lesson: more time to schedule. Can’t do “day of”
    • Updating cultivator meeting templates
  • next:
    • In transit (to NY)
    • Platform Co-op Conference!
    • Potential work (devops)
    • Want to do more business development
  • blockers:
    • Chatbot PR review! Got early feedback but need more
• Person: DC
  • last:
    • Business development plan
    • Deploying handbook
  • next:
    • Moving of things into handbook
    • Handbook better testing links etc.
  • blockers:
    • Need: review (patcon)
• Person: Elon
  • last:
    • Read Loomio and Github threads
  • next:
    • Work to close off some infra related issues
  • blockers:
    • None

Future Discussions

• Meeting times? Are they the same?
  • Recently (September 2019) re-set our availability, lets wait unless member raises concern that they need to be adjusted?
• Pay period Loomio Poll close
  • #todo discuss next all hands
• Meta concern: who needs to be discussed with in order to move forward?
  • Credit Card
    • $60, any number of names, who should be on it?
  • Sending US tax form
    • What our entity status is
• Proposal: we apply for $1000 ($60) credit card with Desjardins with two people listed on it: Yurko, DC
  • recommendation: 2 mths of expenses
  • $500 - 1000
    • Consensed on call, all 5 members okay with this proposal
• Question: are we okay to send US tax form to prevent them witholding taxes?
  • Need to send tax form
  • Concerns over how we represent our status?
    • turns out no hold/block
  • Can we revise status in later filing if we’re wrong?

Next meeting

• Pay periods
• #todo dc create issue: write one-pager on co-operative and tax status

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