Housekeeping for this Loomio group
Danyl Strype PublicSeen by 157Welcome to all the new participants who joined since Open 2018 in London! Sorry for my lack of active participation since then. I'm currently in Hong Kong at the 'coopathon' prior to the 'Sowing the Seeding' conference on platform cooperatives, so hopefully we'll have another wave of new members soon!
I'm aware there's a legacy of older threads here going back a few years. Some of them are very long, and complicated, and only some of them might be relevant to the current iteration of the group. Could we have a few volunteers (ideally among those who have been around a while) to summarize the key point of each discussion, using the editable context box at the top of each thread?
Also, can we have an indication of who has coordinator powers over the main group, and each subgroup, and whether they still want to hold this role? Also anyone who would like to volunteer (or nominate someone) to take on a coordinator role for the group or a subgroup?
@Bob Haugen:
That’s interesting. Whatcha got in mind?
What I'd like to do is find consensus on a program of work for this
group over the next few months, to make sure we're getting value out of
the time and attention we're all putting in here. If possible, I'd like
to get the Loomio crew to sponsor OAE with a free gold service level so
we can create and manage subgroups to focus on different aspects of OAE.
If not, I guess we can try to break into a larger number of aspect
discussions using threads.
For example, Marco is interested in deploying a set of open apps for use
by an individual who wants to self-host, on their own end user PC, or a
Rasberry Pi, or a spare desktop in the closet. This could also be of
interest to anyone from IndieWeb who's here, or from projects like
FreedomBox/ FreedomBone/ YUNOHost. I would make this one subgroup, in
which a number of discussions could take place about the different use
cases for these projects (and others relevant to single-user
self-hosting), and how a user could decide which one to use for their needs.
Then there are the folks who joined since Open 2018, most of whom are
interest in the "commons cloud" concept, deploying a set of open apps
for use by community organizations. This may or may not overlap with the
work Bob and Lynn are doing on ValueFlows and CommonsPub, which could
also have its own subgroup (or set of threads) focusing on open apps
sets for implementing mutual credit and other economic transactions.
Basically, what I'm proposing is that we try to identify some generic
families of open app ecosystem, so folks can focus in on the discussions
that are most relevant to the work they're doing, or the projects they
want to get started. I think this is where we can drill down into the
nuts and bolts of our implementations, our tech choices, and our
successes and failure, and help each other avoid dead ends, or identify
areas in which we can pool dev resources.
I'm in the Hyatt Regency room 1301 (sha tin), for tomorrow's platform coop meetup as well, have a lunch and dinner appointment today, but if you were in the neighborhood,
else we talk in the next days!
I am right in the middle on our fundraising campain at Startin'blox, and won't be able to help with the tyding, but I love the intiative ! Kuddos !!
I like your generic community guidelines, @gregorycassel !
I'm one of the (many) coordinators and I'd like to remain one. The coordinator role here is minimal and I hope it stays that way. If we ever have intense conflicts, perhaps we could consider adapting something such as these p2p-oriented Generic Facebook Community Guidelines which I've written. Loomio groups aren't structurally so different from facebook groups -- no offense meant!-- so I suppose that such adaptation would be easy.
@strypey , your request for some volunteers to summarize old big threads by editing the Context box is potentially quite valuable, if anyone responsibly pursues it. Thanks for asking. I find responsible reporting to be quite hard to do, and I will pass because I'm over-committed in duties for various groups.
Hopefully, it's about to get very busy
That's interesting. Whatcha got in mind?
The main group has a lot of coordinators. If you look at the member list, it's everybody through Mikey (assuming they show up in the same sequence for you as for me, I am a coordinator). I don't know how coordinators for subgroups work.
Also, if you no longer have any interest in lurking in this group, now might be a good time to unsubscribe. Hopefully, it's about to get very busy ;)
Could be a good idea. Suggestion: start with one or two subgroups that you know would be interested and see how it works.
I doubt that the CommonsPub (P2P economic network software project) will want to coordinate work here, because we are trying to live in our own evolving system, but at least some of us will continue to participate here in one way or another, and be available for discussions.