- 📅 February 23rd 2025
- 👥 Ash, Vinny, Molain, Vee
- Facilitator: Ash
- Note Keeper: Ash
- Stack Keeper: none
- Tasks ✅
- Reviewing progress on Q1 collective development roadmap
- Discussion of establishing a formal team structure for implementation within the workers cooperative
- Communications plan discussion
- Onboarding working group discussion
- Setting a day this week for another Collective Development Breakout Session
Current Status
Coop Academy
- Accepted to coop academy but it doesnt start until the fall
- Unclear how much bursaries we will qualify for at this point
¶ Main Discussion
Development Timeline
- Ash proposes that we start looking at creating a workers cooperative asap so that we have a legally recognized and compartmentalized organization for tax and payment processing purposes
- Additionally
- Look at drafting provisional articles of incorporation
- we can change them later, it costs $130
- Fees
- An initial board of directors (Organizing board)
[Insert initial organizing board flowchart here]
Nextcloud Folder
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Ash onboarded 2 - 3 new people over the past week or two
Responsiblities:
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Create a well documented onboarding process, including:
- Form Templates
- Create application form queue to go to onboarding nextcloud deck (action item backlog)
- Essential Reading List with access to supplemental materials
- Conduct onboarding interviews
Molain & Vee:
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Onboarding that utilizes simple quiz questions that confirm the applicant has actually read the documents
- We'll need to map all the different communications platforms and applications we use
- Establish what we actually want to get out of each of them. What function do they fulfill?
- what devices they can be used across
- What account people need to access them
- Use this information to inform the plans for reforming the Discord, Nextcloud and Wiki Documentation
¶ Website and Wiki Talk
Previous breakout session notes
Date: Tuesday Feb 25th 2025, 6 PM - 9 PM
- Discussed formation of provisional workers cooperative
- Discussed provisional team structures and development trees
- Discussed function of the onboarding working group
- Discussed initial outline for communications plan
- Set date for the next breakout session
Molain: Look into the needed to form a provisional workers cooperative
Ash: Put the call out to join the Onboarding working group
Vee likes the organization framework we have developed
Good meeting everyone
Breakout session on Monday Feb 25th, 6-9pm EST, for working through a communications plan outline.
The next regular meeting will be on March Sunday 2nd, for weekly review and check-in.