Well, we had two very useful strategy discussions. The next step is to summarize the excellent notes taken by Matt C and Mica. Maybe this could be a task for the Community Working Group?

I'm totally overloaded at the moment with the frantic and chaotic start to a very strange academic year. But I will read the minutes from the summits with interest..

They seem to be at the bottom of the Agenda disroot pad, here: https://pad.disroot.org/p/Social.Coop_Strategy_Summit_%231

Not sure if there is a more "processed" or summarized version of the notes, @Mica Fisher might know (she took the excellent original notes).

Are there any notes/minutes from the first summit session available somewhere?

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No prob! Gotta give credit where due: It's derived from a Google translated version of vTaiwan's stock description, and adapted from there :)

Thanks for sharing. I like the instructions for commenting you included in that Polis poll. Maybe we can use those too. The process you describe does seem like something that could help us with getting some much needed open-ended feedback using Polis. I think the use of the HackMD pad is also a good idea for us too to accompany the deliberations. Thanks.

Re: Polis. I've used it for small discussions, so it's not just an "at scale" thing. Specifically, one discussion was a lengthy and dramatic mailing list thread surrounding a contentious hackspace decision. I teased the seed statements from that thread (linked in convo description), and offered this:

https://pol.is/2yscmwabsf

If you can suss the dynamics from clicking around the viz for a few minutes, then I'm glad to say I just saved you from reading 20 pages of unstructured emails :)

Note that there were 15 people who chimed in via email, and 20 who participated in the conversation. A 33% increase in participation feels significant. imho Polis really shines at async or combination sync/async via pre- or post-circulation -- ideally post-circulation, as sychronous comms in advance allows seeding the Polis convo with lots of nuance. Having 7 people in the synchronous convo is a minimum for getting the visualization to show.

Anyhow, hopefully this is helpful, but I'm fine with whatever those convening think best! (Polis is actually easy to use unofficially, just by taking notes and populating a polis conversation with seed statements, then sharing it in the last 15 minutes)

Disclaimer: I'm biased here, as I did participatory community research on g0v and vTaiwan in 2018, and now steward the weekly pol.is community calls :)

https://github.com/pol-is/polis#%EF%B8%8F-get-involved

I suspect the people of Taiwan were much more sussed and better organised than the membership of social.coop, when it comes to strategy. Also, far more numerous.

I thought that the way the people at vTaiwan made their government would be a good model for us to follow. Some of the methods described in the Exit to Community: Distributed Governance | Media Enterprise Design Lab | University of Colorado Boulder Webinar with @Nathan Schneider were effective in organizing their new Democracy. In Particular I think the use of the advanced AI analysis polling platform called Polis was effective for rational deliberation at scale - Polis -

I would like to know what everyone feels and thinks about using such processes for our strategy summit.

Here is the summary of the webinar by E2C.

Check out the webinar if you haven't already or again if you have maybe.

Exit to Community: Distributed Governance | Media Enterprise Design Lab | University of Colorado Boulder

What does everyone think about the processes used by vTaiwan to form their government and its relevance to informing our collaborative strategizing processes? 🙂

I could set up a poll on Pol.is for the question of what our purposes and strategies should be and everyone could put in their statements and everyone could vote on them. The analysis and process with Polis smart polls seem to be more informative than regular polls and could yield useful conclusions and data to inform our summit processes.

Unfortunately I am occupied both days of the summit! Thank you so much for putting this all together and for everyone who will take the time and join. I am looking forward to hear about the outcome.