2020-11-25 Hypha Worker Co-op: All Hands

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Time: 5:00-6:00pm ET
Location: https://link.hypha.coop/calls
Attending: el, yj, uv, dc, pc, bl, gi Cultivator: yj Notetaker: gi el, yj, uv, dc, pc, bl, gi

Agenda

Item	Time (min)
Personal Checkins	5
Announcements	5
Task Board Review	15
Working Group Updates	5
Project Updates	5
Discussions	20
Process Checkout	5

Notes

Personal Checkins

• What are you doing for holidays
  • dc: was going to visit family.. quaranteening in alberta
  • bl: take time off and chill
  • pc: not sure what to do with, should we shoudnt we. Hopefully go home.
  • uv: cottage in late december but can we?

Announcements

• …

Task Board Review

• Archive DONE tasks

• Review HIGH [priority-★★★] tasks
  • #329 ASN from ARIN
    • ping dc/ops for doc
  • #313 server setup
    • documentation stuff to get done
    • trying for this cycle
  • #104 amend articles for not-for-profit
    • dc to get to it tomorrow
  • #134 cc
    • Submitted a request for auto payment
    • Marking as DONE
  • #308 y2 strat
    • done by tomorrow (biz-dev call)
  • #311 anti-black racism plan
    • no progress.
    • #todo scope a small piece we can act on
    • operations WG co-work for rescoping
• Triage NEW tasks
  • n/a
• Assign UNASSIGNED tasks
  • skipped

Working Group Updates

• Business Planning wg:business-planning uv
  • no biz dev call last week
  • agenda tomorrow: finalize y2 biz plan
  • rolling out a blog
    • using biz dev for cowork writing
• Finance wg:finance bl
  • legal review for OC contract
  • scheduled friday info call (expanded group, casual)
  • legal review TBD
  • talked to rodica, sorting accounting, project budgets (next month)
• Governance wg:governance dc
  • call with informal sys
    • early stage, talk to other people re:governance
    • follow-up call in january (patcon to join)
  • ammending articles (reflect not-for-profit status)
• Infrastructure wg:infrastructure yj
  • welcome gi to infra call
  • checking on long-running tasks (documentation)
  • hoping to focus on revenue initiatives
  • reactivated shared notes
• Operations wg:operations pc
  • postponed session (tagging issues)
  • no update week

Project Updates

• Meet.coop (yj)
  • last week redeploy server (did not liked virtualized)
  • holding pattern (waiting to spin up from scratch)
  • hypha: provisioning servers 1 month old
  • increased jitter buffer to help with performance
  • Paid for servers (bill by pounds)
  • larger story of co-op infra for outreach, deck shareout, fundraising
  • goal: $100K funding in next yr
  • crossed $1000 GBP recurring monthly (mostly $40/mo)
    • many based on trust in partners
  • worth retroing on growth strat (in 2y?)
• MJW coaching (pc)
  • last week meeting, workshop last thursday (5 attending)
  • overwhelmed by our content (in need of calibration)
  • pitched digital coaching
  • new dynamic (expectation setting)
  • uv pc looking to debrief
• Qm (dc)
  • reconnected, had a call with backend tech team
  • co-work session, uv sent email, waiting
  • taking a step back and think of next steps
  • planning for next 3 months
    • figuring out if it works for Qm
  • transition to right style for next 2 months
  • reconcile work styles between orgs
• StART (pc)
  • more clarity, no map of budget
  • mixed prioritization concerns
  • go relationships, working in good faith with each other
  • feeling better today than last week
• Aether (bl)
  • (in camera)
  • #todo kick to operations WG (re: transitions)
• COMPOST (uv)
  • had call with DisCO folks (interest in Hypha)
    • invited to hangout in their digital spaces (working model, gov, trust)
  • working session after call
  • new tech workers: benny + elon
  • 2 asks (discussion)
• OC (bl)
  • no more update. kick to discussion

Discussions

• #todo skills (all but gi)
  • https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1LyElXvLj7ASclSPQqcgOnuEWqBWBStilEfOhIosZzhA/edit#gid=1841786771
• call with sarah
  • friday, haven’t heard back. maybe monday
• MJW invoice
  • #todo:pc update after call
• uphold hypha account
  • uphold: transferwise with crypto/fiat (web monetize for COMPOST)
    • set one up for Hypha?
    • pc: tax implications?
    • bl: don’t know, super new
    • dc: in support. logicistical setup can get annoying. factor in spending more money
    • pc: covered by COMPOST funds?
    • bl: doesn’t think there is a big crypto component to it
    • for discussion: bl write an issue to detail the ask
    • uv: biz dev discussion, ways to share with others with rev stream
    • bl: parse out Hypha/COMPOST divide
    • dc: codification between Hypha and COMPOST would be helpful
• OC legal review
  • operations WG take over? bl to continue?
  • dc: unclear on further discussion, 30min discussion, operations WG involved
  • next: sync between bl and operations
  • #todo:pc review OC legal email
  • take to operations WG meeting tomorrow
• #prev holiday party
  • dc: can this be an operations WG task? +1
  • not much new from last week
  • pitch minecraft party
  • take to operations WG
  • shoutout to Discord for Minecraft (bedrock and java)
• #prev OKR review (pc)
  • uv: revisit last OKRs and not commit to new ones to start
  • https://link.hypha.coop/okrs
  • min spec if time
    • http://www.liberatingstructures.com/14-min-specs/
  • dc: call this quarter a right-off and defer to jan, 2021
    • general vibe is end of year being hectic
  • review OKRs later (start of revising OKRs)
    • #todo schedule jan review/remake
• #next holiday hours: how do we?

Process Checkout

• n/a

Action Items for Cultivator

• Migrate items with #todo:person to task board
• Publish meeting notes as open access, or publicly indexed with restricted access
• Reset meeting pad for next meeting

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