Membership/admission decisions
Harry "Outlandish" Robbins PublicSeen by 106A place to discuss individual applications from potential CoTech members (co-ops).
Discussions about changing/defining/refining policies should be had on Discourse and then brought here for ratification
(on behalf of Go Free Range) it'd be great to have Creative on board.
Happy to agree on this, although I have to say I find it weird that an organisation that appears to want to be seen as worker co-op chooses a legal form that veers form that.
Very glad my prodding of one of their members finally led to them to apply :P
I'm trusting the comments of Alan, Harry and Chris here as there is no public info about structure on Create's website. As they also have a .coop though (requires status) I'm sure its all good :)
That's great to hear @alanpeart looks forward to reading :)
@graham2 said re Creative.coop:
Happy to agree on this, although I have to say I find it weird that an organisation that appears to want to be seen as worker co-op chooses a legal form that veers form that.
What do you mean? Outlandish, for example, are a Consortium Co-op too, no?
What I mean is that in my view a consortium co-op model is designed to enable organisations to be members. A worker co-op model is designed to have employees as members. I can see that one could squeeze a worker co-op into a set of consortium rules, but its not tidy.
As @jdaviescoates says, Outlandish chose the Consortium rules over the Worker Co-op rules (with advice from @sionwhellens). We felt they were more flexible and had few disadvantages. For example, at some point in the far future Outlandish itself might wish to become a federation of local and/or service-based co-ops (e.g. Outlandish Scotland / Outlandish Events). We have no plans for that, but it seemed silly to make it impossible, especially as we are in the process of converting from being an LLP, which we found too restrictive.
Approve Sleuth's application to join CoTech
proposal by Chris Lowis (Go Free Range) Closed Fri 13 Jul 2018 9:03AM
Thank you for participating everyone. It is with great pleasure that I am able to welcome Sleuth to CoTech. I'll help them get orientated and set up with everything they need.
Sleuth are a technology coop currently offering consulting and master data management services.
Eleanor Nichols of Sleuth says:
> We were part of the Hive Coop mentorship programme, and our mentor Sion Whellens advised we become part of the CoTech network.
Eleanor has read and confirmed that Sleuth are eligible to join under the rules of our constitution and has shared that constitution with Sleuth's members.
On that basis I propose that we approve Sleuth's application to join CoTech.
Results
| Results | Option | Votes | % of votes cast | % of eligible voters | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Agree | 11 | 100 | 10 |         | |
| Abstain | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Disagree | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Block | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Not voted | 97 | 90 |              |
Look great!
Agree
Sleuth have already been advocating for CoTech via their use of/participation in Space4 activities.
Hi all, thanks for the comments! Just wanted to respond re: our website. We've been sadly lax about our own website and only recently managed to commit enough time to move it past "holding page" status. We will definitely be adding a page in the very near future, about co-operatives in general, and our structure and why and how we operate as a co-op in particular.