Change from Loomio (ending free version)
Loomio is ending the free option of their service. Costs to continue would be $1/month/member. We currently have 50 people in our loomio decision group. This is likely well outside our budget for the use we get.
Please provide suggestions on alternative decision making tools.
cstewart000 Sat 28 Dec 2019 5:28PM
See below my point to Sarah. There maybe ~50 people registered to hackland on Loomio but only maybe 20 participating.
Sarah Tanfield Sat 28 Dec 2019 4:16AM
Are all of the people on the Loomio active members?
cstewart000 Sat 28 Dec 2019 5:27PM
No, but I imagine that we would have to set up the payment and cover everyone (who participates even once).
Jonathon Shields Sat 28 Dec 2019 10:15PM
No, not active. But it would be nice to have something that would support all of our members should they choose to weigh in on a subject.
Karsten Sperling Sat 28 Dec 2019 9:38AM
Couldn't we get more or less the same functionality with a dedicated #proposals slack channel? One thread per proposal, vote via 👍👎? I guess it would lack some of the polish like freezing polls when they are over.
cstewart000 Sat 28 Dec 2019 5:34PM
I am not against this. - Maybe I will do a trial on slack check in at #decisions
Sarah Tanfield Sat 28 Dec 2019 10:13PM
I like this idea
Simon Mon 6 Jan 2020 8:14PM
If slack is used for decision making, how long do the decisions need to be stored for? Do they need to be stored? If so, we have the free version of slack and these decisions will be lost over time. Slack by itself would be pretty awful for voting, since it's a messaging tool, However, I do see that slack has a few voting/polling apps.
Poll Created Thu 2 Jan 2020 6:30AM
Let's ditch loomio and use slack for voting and making decisions! Closed Sun 5 Jan 2020 6:02AM
Vote to confirm that we are happy to switch to using slack as our decision making tool.
Go to the #decisions channel on Slack if you want to try out the poll tool.
Important notes/benefits:
Keeps all hackland items inside Slack
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Its possible to close a poll. ie: to record the outcome of decisions with slack /poll
Results
| Results | Option | % of points | Voters | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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Agree | 100.0% | 1 |
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| Abstain | 0.0% | 0 | ||
| Disagree | 0.0% | 0 | ||
| Undecided | 0% | 50 |
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1 of 51 people have participated (1%)
Jonathon Shields · Sat 28 Dec 2019 1:12AM
We could apply as volunteer group, doesn't look like you need any special paperwork. This brings the price to $1/year/member which is much more affordable. In saying that though, this new layout is a terrible experience on mobile devices (edit : actually might just be Firefox, chrome seems fine), maybe we should look at other options.