Meetings of the Finance Committee: when? why? who? where? what fun?
Caitlin Waddick, @[email protected]
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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.
Nathan Schneider Tue 14 Nov 2023 5:10PM
2023.11.14 FWG meeting
- Check in on balance and budgeting
- Stripe issue
- Domain
- Structure and WG membership
- P6 and Innovation.coop
Nathan Schneider Mon 12 Feb 2024 4:53PM
2024.02.12 Finance Working Group meeting minutes
Minutes:
- Organizing circle update
- Organizing circle is not yet ready to take action or approve a budget
- Fiscal host transition
- We can involve a lawyer to clarify the contractual relationship between Social.Coop and the new host.
- Going to reach out to P6 and innovation.coop to move the process forward
- Going to make a proposal in Loomio to approve a budget for the legal costs of the transition, with a goal of making the legal docs publicly available
- Andres will lead moving forward on this.
- Review budget plans
- Revising to bring contributions to other orgs into the FWG, not TWG.
Next time (30 min in a month):
- Review budget discussion
- Design process for external contributions
- Story cards? Document the reasons for the contributions
- Move the P6 > innovation process forward
Nathan Schneider Mon 18 Mar 2024 3:54PM
March 18 (30 min.):
Fiscal sponsorship
P6 is moving to Innovation.coop slowly. No big deal. This is working for now…
bigger question: Will P6 under Innovation be willing to serve as a durable, long-term fiscal & legal host to social.coop? (The view is Yes, but confirmation would help.)
Beyond P6–FWG linkages, can we establish FWG–meet.coop linkages with the other significant project on P6.
Review budget discussion
Review "Team Roles" on Open Collective
Should all FWG members be "Admins" or "Accountants"? Propsal?
Design process for external contributions
Story cards? Document the reasons for the contributions
Outcomes:
Announce result of annual budget (Nathan)
Initiate annual P6 payment of 600 GBP for fiscal costs (Nathan?)
Design community contribution process (Caitlin and Josh)
Socialize annual budget in the Organizing Circle to encourage working groups to implement the budget (Caitlin and Andres)
Aiming to begin paying stipends to the FWG mid-year in June
Check in with Matt Cropp and Leo about membership (and remove them unless they want to remain)
Nathan Schneider · Tue 29 Aug 2023 3:53PM
TODAY'S MEETING
Agenda
consider the path forward with Platform 6 (and therefore innovation.coop);
evaluate the need for a decision by the FWG or the membership;
provide a general update to members on P6 to Innovation.
representative to steering body;
Discuss proposal for a comprehensive budget
social.coop domain
Decisions
- Andres is willing to join the working group! Gotta add him to the list on the wiki once we can log in.
- Pinged Graham about a co-op-wide proposal on the innovation.coop
- Starting with Caitlin as representative to the Organizing Circle
- Andres will develop a proposal for a budget model in the FWG, which we'll then bring to the broader membership
Next meeting: November 14 at 9 am MT