September meetup

Sounds good! If you let me know when we are definite about the day, I can get a cheapish non-refundable rail ticket. Perhaps negotiate off list about timing etc.

Monday 24th sounds OK for me

Ok, I'm going with September 24th, and will look into a place to meet - I'll probably ask the Shrub if we can use their space on Guthrie Street, unless anyone has another preference. (See the "venues" thread.)

As for topic, if anyone would like to suggest anything, either one of the ones on our list already, or a new one, that'd be welcome (and I'll try and keep the info in header up-to date.)

I was wondering if by default we might just discuss what we want from the group and what/how to organise future meet-ups.

But also we will (or may, fingers crossed) have notable visitors Simon (@asimong) from Lancaster and Chris (@chriscook1 ) from Linlithgow, which might be a chance for us to ask them about their areas of expertise.

Simon is (paraphrasing his web page) interested in non-hierarchical/cooperative governance, and involved with the P2P Foundation/Commons Transition group elsewhere here on Loomio.

Chris is (it says here) is a fellow at UCL's Centre for Strategy, Resilience, and Security with a interest in P2P/alternative finance.

And of course there will be three of us (myself, Simon and David) who have have first-hand experience of the governance of social.coop, an experiment in cooperatively-managed social media, which recently has been going through a bit of a crisis of community resulting in a bunch of resignations and general mayhem...

Thanks Nick I look forward to meeting everyone. Chris I've met three times before, but always good to talk more with! I'll be around much of the day, as it was a great opportunity to spend more time with you, and also cheaper train ticket ;)

Thanks a lot for organising this! I'll be there and look forward to meeting you all :)

Is it going to be the Shrub, then, Nick? I note on their web site that they aren't open on Mondays at all for normal business -- can you or anyone suggest somewhere cosy to sit and work -- at least silently, but ideally also to participate in a call from 11 to 12 (not absolutely vital)? Doesn't even have to have wifi.

Simon, I'll be able to rendezvous with you next Monday morning, say from 11ish onwards if that helps. As a member, I can get you into Edinburgh Hacklab, which south central Edinburgh in Summerhall, has desks, power, wifi, and should be fairly quiet during the day. There are many other options, but I can advise off-thread.

So, my email to the Shrub last week was sadly was unreturned - I hear they're super busy, it being freshers week. Anyway, I rang just now and managed to speak to someone and get the reservation scheduled for 6pm - 9pm, I just need to turn up a bit early and get the key.

This is in 17 Guthrie Street, so the door uphill of the old swapshop (the swapshop has moved to Bread Street). There should be space for about 15 people I'm told, and there's a projector.

Hi Nick, Nick, Tao, David, Luke, good to meet you all yesterday.

A couple of links to a few of the many things discussed last night:
https://www.localfutures.org/the-commons-short-and-sweet/
https://primer.commonstransition.org/
https://teamhuman.fm/
https://bananananaba.com/Convocational.html

I wondered if it might be helpful to have a page (wiki page?) somewhere as a reference point for P2P Scotland? If we wrote posts or reports it would be more than one page, I wasn't thinking of that, and anyway we all post in other places -- I was thinking just of a list of the people who would like to be listed as interested, or identify publicly as "members" in some way not formally defined, and a list of useful links for learning more about the matters that we share an interest in. That's where the links above would go...

As for me, I would say something about the things that connect me specifically with P2P Scotland: my Scottish roots, surname, and connections; and my P2P interests. Maybe the interests shared with other members?

And the Hacklab is awesome, with great people!

Possibly we could have a page or category on the P2PF's wiki? That seems the simplest thing do do, and arguably appropriate, although I'm not sure what the P2PF people would think.