2020-05-06 Hypha Worker Co-op: Standup

Time: 5-5:30pm ET
Location: https://jitsi.hypha.coop/hyphacoop
Attending: yj bl dw el gi uv
Cultivator: yj
Notetaker: gi. gi, yj, el, bl, dc, uv, pc

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?

Helpful link: https://github.com/issues?q=org:hyphacoop+sort:updated-desc+involves:YOU

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Standup Notes

Person: bl
- last:
  - Contract agreement draft
  - Drafting bizdev emails
  - Looked at Open Collective purposal
  - Meeting with Digital Life Collective (next week follow up)
  - Digging into “other Hypha”
  - Met with Hank
  - Continued work with Aether
- next:
  - DWeb camp website (pinged Wendy)
    - mid-month send out to subscribers
    - hypha brand (in contact email)
    - possible inbound opportunities
  - distributed press MVP
- blockers:
  - need to figure out where to focus on
  - better prioritizing
Person: dc
- last:
  - drafted contract
  - restarted with StART
  - getting ready for next purposals
  - letterhead, template agreements
  - bylaws iteration
  - donation made
  - Convo with fu (on starting a coop, delivery software potential)
  - social media: break a 100 followers (~~at 98~~ at 100)
- next:
  - looking for things to tweet
  - StART keeping the ball rolling, contract signing
  - onboarding Nomadic (HST status)
  - 2 calls
- blockers:
  - capacity and time
Person: gi
- last:
  - busy at work
- next:
  - depending on schedul
  - try to follow up on website things
  - be on the lookout for PRs
- blockers:
  - work
Person: uv
- last:
  - Qm
  - CivicTechTO COVID-19 connecting (external facing response)
  - responded to CivicTechTO email
    - talked to infra about it
- next:
  - similar to last week (CivicTechTO, Qm)
- blockers:
  - time
Person: el
- last:
  - finished the email doc
  - clean up the email pipeline (internal email routing)
- next:
  - finish tickets that infra has open
- blockers:
  - no blockers
Person: yj
- last:
  - finance stuff
  - subsidy research
  - infra research (living outside of el, yj)
  - infra monitoring
  - in-depth meeting about public facing infra instead of internal
- next:
  - hoping to finish open infra tasks
  - more details explanation on COVID-19
- blockers:
  - randomest of things coming up
  - split with Toronto Mesh

Discussions

Email Show and Tell
- Gist: how to change your password, send-as, forward, alias, who’s on which list, get onto a new group address
- Doc: https://github.com/hyphacoop/organizing-private/blob/master/documents/infrastructure/email.md
- Shortlink: https://link.hypha.coop/email
Postponing AGM until June, switching to virtual format (shorter), check-in on weekend dates:
- 6-7
- 13-14 <– Gov WG proposes this
- 20-21
  - uv: prefer 1 day on weekend, 12-15 maybe booked
  - bl: tiring for 1 day, with little gap
  - yj: nothing scheduled, open
  - gi: open
  - el: open
  - bl: 13-14 works
  - dc: same
- dc: polling for all
- request: each WG is expected to present a “formal” report (2-5 hours of work from start-June)
Check-in on WG capacity
- bl: how we can decide on org pacing, how people feel on progress, talked briefly in ops
- uv: moving at a unsustainable pace?
  - bl: not moving fast on org goals, personal level: not sustainable
  - bl: unexpect commitments adding up
  - yj: inverted from bl (ft commitments)
  - uv: similar to yj, lots of commitments, feels temporary, flatten out over time
  - dc: a lot of authority over commitments, more time on hypha things, COVID-19 related, timing is unfortunate, might be moving at a faster pace than what we can manage
  - uv: thoughts on work being done differently?
    - bl: resolve internal processes, load-balancing, prioritizing challenges in WGs. maybe more async work?
    - bl: actively doing check-ins (room), more org-wide comms outside of sync meetings
    - dc: looking at basecamp as a model (think time, no chat), daily stand-ups maybe, examples we could look
    - dc: getting better at time in meetings. maybe 1 hour of sync time per-week
  - next steps: can we imagine a model that defocuses on chat, more attention on async platforms?
  - dc: end meetings on time, cut meetings off if it goes over
#todo: end meetings on time
#todo: leverage github over chat for discussion

Parked

Solidarity action: Endorsing The Leap People’s Bailout
- “From pandemic to prosperity for all” https://theleap.org/peoples-bailout/
  - Housing
    - Immediate Housing for All (Suspend all rent and mortgage payments)
    - Legislate and Entrench Housing as a Public Good
    - Ultimate Goal is Pandemic-Proof, Climate-Safe Housing for All
  - Healthcare
    - Free and Accessible Healthcare for All (PPE for frontline workes, testing and treatment for all)
    - Reverse Decades of Health Cuts
    - Universal Healthcare Must Cover Every Part of Every Body: Eye care, dental, and mental health
  - Work
    - No Worker Left Behind (wage subsidy)
    - Worker Power Can Stabilize the Economy For Good. (worker co-ops)
    - Democracy: Public, cooperative, and worker ownership
  - Future: Transportation, Education, Food
  - Theme: Green New Deal
- CWCF has already endorsed: https://twitter.com/WorkerCoop/status/1255175524499914752?s=20
- Endorsement form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd9bgB8-zhPS74TFKg-qnjL33yWNta17znUlYq8tjfTGQFrOw/viewform
- Outcome:
  - Someone submits the google form and tweets from @hypha coop with hashtags
Proposal: Setting up OpenCollective
- Proposal: https://hackmd.io/cAU-FaMHTAeilCOA836D7Q?edit

Action Items for Cultivator

Migrate items with #todo:person to task board
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