Agenda for the on-boarding call - October 8th 2025 at 5PM UTC

- [5 minutes] Opening

* What is the goal of this meeting and review the agenda

* Who is here and does anyone have hard stops?

* Who is taking notes? (Ammar is facilitating)

* Establish norms on speaking (Rounds + progressive stack)

* When are we meeting next? (Same time on October 22nd)

- [20 minutes] Introductions

* What do we call you? Where are you from? How are you connected to social.coop? How are you showing up to this meeting https://feelingswheel.com/?

- [10 minutes] Social.coop context and background

* Review By Laws: https://wiki.social.coop/wiki/Bylaws

* Review working group purposes, current member composition, and updates: https://www.loomio.com/d/TZrD5I6C/call-for-volunteers, https://www.loomio.com/d/5ngdmUzj/organizing-circle-recaps-2025

* Round: Any questions or reactions to offer?

- [5 minutes] Next steps

* Next meeting identify selection criteria for members

* Final meeting to review volunteers and make selection

- [5 minutes] Reflections

* How did this meeting go? What worked well and what should change next time?

* How are you leaving this call?

Meeting notes

- [5 minutes] Opening

• What is the goal of this meeting and review the agenda

  • everyone consent!

• Who is here and does anyone have hard stops?

  • Dan C, Rich Jensen, Nathalie Szycher, Ammar

• Who is taking notes? (Ammar is facilitating)

  • Nathalie is taking notes

• Establish norms on speaking (Rounds + progressive stack)

• When are we meeting next? (Same time on October 22nd)

  • Nathalie has conflict in October 29th

- [20 minutes] Introductions

• What do we call you? Where are you from? How are you connected to social.coop? How are you showing up to this meeting https://feelingswheel.com/?

  • Rich

    • knows Dan from previous project

    • working with coops from some times, music topic

    • looking forward to process

  • Nathalie

    • she/her pronouns, located in Germany

    • Not an active social media user

    • working with Karrot and Sociocracy for all

    • interested in exploring governance of social coop

  • Dan

    • Chicago timezone

    • connected through Nathan Schneider

  • Ammar

    • they/ them

    • located in Seattle

    • hopeful and energetic, hoping for this process to bring energy to social.coop

    • grateful for everyone being here

    • member of social.coop Organizing circle

- [10 minutes] Social.coop context and background

• Review By Laws: https://wiki.social.coop/wiki/Bylaws

  • 5 minutes to read on our own

  • Questions/ Reflections

    • important for social coop to find its spot between surveillance capatalism and a one person run instance

    • fan of the coop, happy to participate

    • Which decisions can working groups take? Compared to all member ones?

      • A: Any member can propose a decision, working groups operate within these policies.

    • Who is approving expenses?

      • A: Any new projects need to be approved by the full membership

    • "Every quarter, all non-paying members receive an email checking" is it happening? A: Not in that time frame

• Review working group purposes, current member composition, and updates: https://www.loomio.com/d/TZrD5I6C/call-for-volunteers, https://www.loomio.com/d/5ngdmUzj/organizing-circle-recaps-2025

  • will advertise this call for volunteers in the upcoming days

  • second attempt to establish Legal Working Group

  • we only have 3 members for the committee (instead 6 - 9)

  • Round: Any questions or reactions to offer?

    • Which working groups? Organizing Cirlce and Legal Group. Organizing Circle has 3 seats open. For Legal Working Groups it's second attempt to convene.

    • Other working groups e.g. Tech? They'll do their own selection

    • happy to finally get involved into the governance, have been receiving Loomio notifications

    • more than I expected to do

    • List of volunteers? Will look at it next meeting

    • looked at Organizing Circle Recaps, want to reviewit after the call

    • work makes sense

    • respect the ways how the community organizes

    • Q: Do we have enough candidates? What are the quantities? A: We have a dozen of volunteers, can share the list

    • try to reach out to people and promote the call ourselves!

    • How many seats are open? 6-9 members for Legal Working group, could be less

- [5 minutes] Next steps

* Next meeting identify selection criteria for members

* Final meeting to review volunteers and make selection

* Conflict for next meetings?

- October 22nd? no conflicts

- October 29th? Wednesday November 5th 1500 UTC instead

- [5 minutes] Reflections

* How did this meeting go? What worked well and what should change next time?

* How are you leaving this call?

- thank you very much for inviting me

- well moderated, effective

- what I expected to happen, great to ask questions and read bylaws

- useful to get oriented about coop governance

- appreciate organization

- volume of Ammar's mic seems to be low

- happy to see you all, excited to see it going forward

- grateful for taking notes