Social.Coop Community Cafes
One of the ideas generated in our Strategy Sessions was holding regular "Community Cafes" for folks in social.coop to connect more deeply. This thread will help us plan and schedule these meet ups.
Nick Sellen Mon 28 Jun 2021 11:36AM
Ok, I picked a date/time and put it in the spreadsheet:
Hands on introductory session about Karrot: "Start a group, become a community" https://karrot.world
6th July (2021-07-06)
9am West Coast USA
12pm East Coast USA
5pm London
6pm Central Europe
would appreciate a nod (or otherwise) from @Matt Noyes (or someone else) that it's all good, then would go about promoting it (on mastodon only I guess...). I guess people from non-social.coop instances can join too? (and I signed up for meet.coop social.coop account, waiting for the invite link on that).
Matt Noyes Wed 16 Jun 2021 9:05PM
I think you have to experiment. Maybe @Mica Fisher has ideas?
Nick Sellen Wed 16 Jun 2021 9:01PM
Great! Is there a format/structure that you've found worked well so far? I'd like to do something as interactive as possible....probably create a demo group that people can play around with... that kind of thing...
Matt Noyes Wed 16 Jun 2021 8:38PM
Very interested. The key to these community cafes is to organize the participants you hope will come -- reach out directly to people you think might be interested, see why they are interested, if they know others who might be...
Nick Sellen Wed 16 Jun 2021 5:34PM
Hey! Would people be interested if I did a session about https://karrot.world? Open source community organising software, or from the blurb on our front page:
Karrot is a free and open-source tool for grassroots initiatives and groups of people that want to coordinate face-to-face activities on a local, autonomous and voluntary basis.
It is designed in ways to enable community-building and support a more transparent, democratic and participatory governance of your group.
Alice Kile Tue 8 Jun 2021 4:00AM
Thank You for sharing this resource!
Yasuaki Kudo Sun 23 May 2021 10:54AM
Peer-to-peer education of subjects that lend themselves to mutual verification! I have been quite productive with my friend's daughter doing this math/logic course https://jscoq.github.io/ext/sf/lf/full/Basics.html
If we create a thriving learning community, that might form a basis of future worker cooperatives, just like how Mondragon started with former students of their vocational school 😄
Mica Fisher Thu 20 May 2021 3:27PM
Hello again, friendly reminder that these meet ups continue, but we've rebranded! They are now social.coop Community Cafes (more fun right?) 🙂🍵. Come share your ideas, BYO beverage/snack of choice.
Sign up here!
Caitlin Waddick, @[email protected] Wed 7 Apr 2021 1:51AM
I just posted:
Announcement -
Social Coop Happy Hour / Round Table Discussion on Agrarian Commons and Trusts hosted by me
I scheduled it for April 8th, 11 AM Eastern Time (NYC) = UTC-4. Does that work for you? Are you coming? Should we reschedule? The place is BigBlueButton: https://socialcoop.meet.coop/adm-udt-e
Nick Sellen · Tue 29 Jun 2021 9:32AM
... I'll just go for it :)