@Ammar suggests using https://socialcoop.meet.coop/amm-cbi-efd-ggk in the mastodon thread. Bread crumbing this here as well!

Meeting notes

Opening

Who is here

• Ammar

• Eduardo

• Melissa

Check-in

Pending tasks

budget approval

• Did we already approve the budget?

  • We approved the 2025 budget, we are to illicit feedback on budget structure for future budget making and review.

  • last meeting recap: https://www.loomio.com/d/4yPdSMjK/organizing-circle-meeting-2025-october-23-1500-utc-/4

  • in the previous meeting we reviewed the 2025 real expenditures and took that as the 2026 base with a range of +/- 15% in order to accomodate variations.

  • the spending categories.

  • we are getting feedback from the community.

  • agreed (but still didn't formalize) that we should

    • Pay the operational expenses

    • Pay the contributors stipends

    • Keep a rest for potencial future needs (still not decided the %)

    • Distribute the rest on related projects based on community votes.

  • next steps for this:

    make sure that someone is formalizing this, and if we don't have someone to own it yet, get someone

consent vs consensus

Eduardo gave us a brief sociocracy lesson in consent vs consensus.

nominations for community contributions from the OC

• As the OC, do we want to make a nomination?

  • IFTAS? they were struggling with funds...

  • spritely??

  • sociocracy for all?

  • is there a way to contribute to Darius and Erin's work?

  • EFF?

• Nominating as the OC is a strong statement, we are uncomfortable doing so.

• We will move forward by having individual (not on behalf of the OC) nomination. Melissa will do a round of nominations in the loomio thread

hackathon and walkthrough

• ok to publicize these events?

  • We should write a wiki about the events and share it as a mastodon announcement.

    Hackathon - Dec 6

    https://luma.com/7cd4ttb7

    Walkthrough/ brainstorm - Dec 1

    https://luma.com/yz59gq9c

    Inter-Coop-Collaboration > Hackathon event save the date - Dec 6

    Melissa to write this up in zulip/wiki and get this to a point where we can publicize tomorrow/Friday

    will include having a server announcement

OC kanban (already shared)

https://share.mayfirst.org/apps/deck/board/1128- The board is shared with mayfirst nextcloud members who are part of the OC group.Eduardo walked us over the columns and tags.

Letter from Selection Committee

Letter

The jury committee for selecting OC and LGW members for 2026/2027 term has decided the following:

- Enthusiatically approve @arod and @MarieVC for Legal Working Group membership

- Enthusiatically approve @loppear and @pjw for the Organizing Circle membership

- Asking Organizing circle to make a final decision whether to accept @Kevinlebarron for Organizing Membership or for a provisional period.

We couldn't find the social.coop profile for @Kevinlebarron and unsure if they are a member in good standing. We encourage Organizing Circle to implement a provisional period for these new contributors so the teams are not forced to work with people we have no knowledge of their communication skills and compatibility with how the working group conducts its affairs.

Reaction

- Uncomfortable with inviting someone we don't know anything about (Kevinlebarron).

- We should email him and get clarification.

- Ammar to email the person.

Next steps

• Invite @loppear and @pjw to join the OC, do we have an onboarding process?

• Tell Alex that Marie is also going to be on the Legal Working group

Closing