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Wed 3 Aug 2022 2:47PM

Meetings of the Finance Committee: when? why? who? where? what fun?

CW Caitlin Waddick, @[email protected] Public Seen by 13

This thread is for The Stuff of real time meetings of the Finance Committee. The agenda for the meeting could get linked here. And a link to any meeting minutes. We might discuss timing and location and especially: How do we make our meeting fun and worth having? How do we craft our relationships to each other? How do we make decisions? ... No actual financial content will be discussed in this thread. This thread is just the nuts and bolts of having a meeting, and hopefully some jokes or memes to lift the dull parts. Suggestion: we might create a new thread for this stuff at the beginning of every year.

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Nathan Schneider Mon 3 Oct 2022 3:09PM

Hi everyone, ( @Matthew Cropp @Caitlin Waddick, @[email protected] @Leo Sammallahti ), @Josh Davis and I are the only ones who made it to our planned meeting. I think we failed to announce it properly. I'm sorry about that! But we were the ones who were supposed to do things, so we just used the time to catch up on those. When shall we meet next?

JD

Josh Davis Mon 3 Oct 2022 4:00PM

Here's a link to the Financial Tracking document we made today at the meeting: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1k4geyWCmz5OIxYVQT0IPdVE2y8yUOK_o?usp=sharing

CW

Caitlin Waddick, @[email protected] Tue 28 Feb 2023 3:59PM

I have written down that we are meeting today, at 11 AM Eastern (Feb. 28th), here: https://socialcoop.meet.coop/nat-flp-g76-mf4

JD

Josh Davis Tue 28 Feb 2023 4:01PM

@Caitlin Waddick, CaitlinWaddickSocial.Coop Me too. I'm waiting for the meeting to start now.

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Nathan Schneider Tue 28 Feb 2023 4:02PM

@Caitlin Waddick, CaitlinWaddickSocial.Coop Yes, that's right! Signing in now.

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Nathan Schneider Tue 28 Feb 2023 4:52PM

Today's minutes:

Agenda

  • Check ins

  • Where are we now? Assess financial situation

  • Platform6 GM

  • Asnyc comms - Matrix?

  • Any proposals we should make to membership? 

  • Legal Working Group

  • Elections?

  • Finish by :50

Present: Caitlin, Josh, Leo, Nathan

  • Current balance is almost 16k GBP, budget is 17k GBP. We are not spending most of our funds. We have the ability to do much more

  • Status of past spending proposals

  • We need more accountability in the co-op as we get more serious

  • Proposals we could make

  • Propose a general manager? Leo can take that to the "growing social.coop" group

  • Hire outside support on tech or other services?

  • Pay a quarterly fee to Platform6

  • Meet.coop is going away. Do we need to replace that service, or is Jitsi sufficient?

  • Platform6 general meeting

  • Idea of organizing an event on cooperative fediverse instances. Establish more permanent support structures for them.

To dos:

  • Nathan:

  • Draft general manager proposal—or start with the problem, and explore diverse solutions

  • Leo:

  • Bring our reflections back to the "growing social.coop" governance group

  • Get the domain under Platform6 control

  • Initiate discussion on budget priority increases

Next meeting: April 30, 9 am Denver, https://meet.mayfirst.org/socialcoop-fwg

NS

Nathan Schneider Tue 30 May 2023 3:40PM

Today's meeting (just Caitlin, Josh, Nathan attending)—to dos:

Next meeting: August 29, 9 am Mountain, https://meet.mayfirst.org/socialcoop-fwg

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Nathan Schneider Fri 4 Aug 2023 8:08PM

Will do—adding to our agenda.

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Andrew Escobar (Andres) · social.coop Finance Working Group Fri 4 Aug 2023 8:15PM

For context, I deleted my comment shortly after posting (to keep with the intent of this thread) and created a separate thread: https://www.loomio.com/d/wO2so9E5/open-collective-host-platform-6

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