Advice for setting up a local meet-up group
Nick S
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Hi all -
A few of us were planning to start a P2PF/Commons Transition meet-up in Edinburgh. I was wondering if anyone had done this before elsewhere and/or had any advice to offer? So far it hasn't really been announced, and is in very early stages of planning. I got so far as creating a Loomio group P2P Scotland and a proposed initial date.
Beyond that I simply wanted to announce it and seek the general blessings from P2P people here - for example, is it OK to use the P2P logos and the name, etc? Is there any general support you can offer to local groups?
Note, I say Edinburgh, but it might be branded as more of a Scotland-wide affair, since the few people interested so far are distributed outside Edinburgh (Glasgow and Falkirk/Edinburgh I believe). This larger catchment area obviously means there may be more people who might register their interest, but then poses problems as the physical meet-ups need to be in one place or another.
Cheers!
Nick
Simon Grant Thu 15 Mar 2018 4:30PM
Thanks to @julienlecaille for reminding us of the excellent work of Maia and lescommuns. Where and how is that wiki hosted?
Mike @mikeh8 I see you're in Sussex. Greetings from the other end of England! Looks like we are getting people's support and encouragement, so I hope to go ahead and start a new Loomio group next week, still curious about whether it could be a subgroup of this one, and how that would work...
UK folk could then, there, we can discuss how exactly to take things forward, whether a wiki on the French lescommuns model, drawing from the Australians, or what?
Maïa Dereva Fri 16 Mar 2018 12:35PM
Hi @asimong ! The wiki is hosted by a specific French association called "Legal Service for Commons" (technically, we rent a dedicated server from Online.net).
See http://legalserviceforcommons.initiative.place/ (in French, sorry)
mike_hales Fri 16 Mar 2018 1:02AM
UK commoners gathering, July 20th
Forwarding . . .
Date: 16 March 2018 at 00:06:23 GMT
From: Torange Khonsari
Sent: 15 March 2018 17:30
To: Worker Co-operatives [email protected]
Subject: [Worker Co-operatives] This is an open invitation to all initiatives or...This is an open invitation to all initiatives or organisations involved in commoning practices and projects to assemble in London on Friday July 20th. This would be the first assembly of UK commons or those practices close to commoning to come together and organise. If you are interested please DM me with your email and I send you more details.
Michel Bauwens Fri 16 Mar 2018 6:11AM
Loomio is great for discussion and self-organization, not so much for ongoing documentation,
that is where the wikis come in, to offer a knowledge commons for the community; the mediawiki is very easy to use, it took me about 15 minutes to learn
Michel
Simon Grant Fri 16 Mar 2018 12:51PM
Completely endorsing @michelbauwens1 here. Loomio for discussion and decision, flowing and changing with time. Wiki for reference -- documentation whose value endures over time. MediaWiki is most effective for anyone with Wikipedia experience (who know the Wikitext format) but others are possible, depending on hosting.
Julien Lecaille Fri 16 Mar 2018 4:20PM
Knowledge of wikitext is not even necessary, we use VisualEditor for easy WYSIWYG edition :)
Simon Grant Mon 26 Mar 2018 6:53AM
I've now started a Commons Transition UK thread to which everyone with a UK interest is invited -- partly to discuss and facilitate local / regional groups in the UK. https://www.loomio.org/invitations/4e5a51c7ae14bd2f38da
Thanks!
Michel Bauwens Mon 26 Mar 2018 7:43AM
dear Stacco/Ann-Marie,
perhaps a good time to do a write up on the discussion resources available on Loomio, for our blog audience ?
thanks Simon for your initiative .
Michel
Stacco Troncoso Mon 26 Mar 2018 10:34AM
Quick note: Dear Michel, when you use Loomio over email and forward to someone it doesn't really work on Loomio and "abducts" the conversation to email It's best to @ + tag.
With the groups yes. I thnk it makes more sense to publicise them in social media than a full out blog post at this stage. @asimong maybe we can take the introductory text from the CT UK group? (or, indeed, do a quick check in that thread to ensure everyone is fine with this)
Liam Murphy · Wed 14 Mar 2018 8:49AM
My comment is 'Please go ahead and do it'! (thanks for that Julien - will look)