Online worker co-op weekend?

I'd be interested in learning more Micky.

Agaric is working with the Office of Opportunity and Achievement Gaps, a
department of Boston Public School System (BPS) to put together an
online learning management system as schools will not be open for the
summer and possibly not even in the fall. The free software
foundation has put a few free software packages together to create an
LMS using Canvas with BigBlueButton as the video chat/whiteboard -
We are going to add NextCloud for document storage and Drupal as the
outer layer for a school Website, so the result would be a Drupal school
website with the online classroom built-in We have been testing the
Canvas and BBB setup and so far it is working well! If anyone would like
a login to take a look, just email me - [email protected]

I am also working on a solidarity project - http://citizencommandcenter.org

In Solidarity,

Micky Metts
Agaric ~ FreeScholar
https://agaric.coop - We are your Cooperative Tech Ally.
Join Agaric on IRC any time - irc.freenode.net in the #devs-r-us channel

Is there any interest in some discussion space to look at the issue of Members who don't want to be involved in management of the business. I've come across this a few times. This is especially relevant as we try to flatten democracy and use tools like sociocracy. I also think we need to get to grips with this if we are realistic about growing the number of worker co-ops, and widening participation in worker co-ops. Is training enough when some people either aren't interested or find it stressful? Is sociocratic governance a potential answer - people get involved in the things they are interested in rather than disconnect entirely? But if all members only do what they are interested in, who does the difficult stuff that no-one wants to touch like HR and financial fire fighting? And is this equitable?

It worked really well @Matthew (Rhizome) I liked it a lot. 👍

I agree. I've been using Miro of late in delivering online training sessions and it seems to be ideal for this (though another layer of tech can be off-putting for some, so there would need to be adequate tech support/ tutorial in advance)

For the Open Space, an online whiteboard tool like Miro would really help to recreate the live "buzz" that Open Space generates.

Hi folks,

Rhizome is happy to contribute in any way we can be useful. We were thinking specifically about offering some online training around:

(1) online decision-making, and keeping our decisions democratic/consensual. This could be decision-making in smaller co-ops , but equally around running online AGMs or large group decision-making

(2) working with conflict - stressful times for co-ops everywhere, less opportunities for face to face communication, more opportunities for misunderstanding.

We'd also be up for a conversation about facilitating on online Open Space type session, where people can bring whatever is on their mind and have the conversations they want with the people that are interested. It takes the pressure off trying to decide what the relevant topics are in advance - we can let the wisdom of the crowd do it for us on the day!

Or a World Cafe style conversation?

Open to other ideas and suggestions....

Totally see where you are coming from Chris, we shall be back to normal next year, don't fear.

I think it is great that people are interested in doing this and if it happens I really hope it goes well, but it is the fact that I get to camp without the kids for a weekend, spend time eating some great food, chatting and drinking beers around a bonfire with awesome people, away from computers, is what makes these weekends special for me, an online version is not something I'm personally interested in, sorry.

I was planning to do one of these anyway, Cilla at the College had also offered so it may be worth the three of us having a quick chat if I can pin her down.