October 2019 Social.coop Strategy Thread
Matthew Cropp
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In the most recent Community Working Group Operations Team call, we discussed moving a process forward to collect members' thoughts on the strategic direction of our co-op, with an eye towards a developing a plan to guide the co-op going forward. We'll be given a short (8 minutes) slot during the Platform Cooperativism conference in early November to discuss social.coop, so that gives us a good deadline for completing this work.
So, I'll be putting out a schedule poll for a 90 minute Zoom call this month that all members are invited to participate in, and we also welcome folks to share their thoughts and ideas in this thread!
mike_hales Wed 30 Oct 2019 3:47PM
Here's a condensed version of what's in my pdf notes - more visual, single page
Matthew Cropp Fri 1 Nov 2019 3:24PM
Facepalm Thanks for noticing, just updated with the link.
mike_hales Wed 30 Oct 2019 7:21PM
@Matthew Cropp was there intended to be a link here, to the meeting notes? I don’t see one.
Matthew Cropp Wed 30 Oct 2019 3:43PM
Notes from today's call. Thanks everyone!
Matt Noyes Mon 28 Oct 2019 9:13PM
That was my understanding. Thanks for getting the conversation moving!
mike_hales Mon 28 Oct 2019 9:07PM
No problem with abstaining Matt, I’m not trying to get these ideas endorsed here. I just want to float some thoughts for discussing on Weds, which first began to form during the meltdown weeks last year.
Manuela Bosch
Wed 30 Oct 2019 9:26AM
i did not have the chance yet to dive into this and have been not enought involved lately to be able to judge priorities. but i trust it's the right topics to discuss.
Ana Ulin
Tue 29 Oct 2019 4:48PM
Points #4 and #3 ("A-list") feel particularly important to me.
The financial underpinnings of social.coop and how we compensate those who "do the work" (tech or otherwise) feels like an existential matter for the continued thriving of social.coop.
Having a set of ideas that don't need to be re-litigated in times of crisis would make us more robust and help prospective members self-select. Can be a simple list, eg: https://doubleunion.org/base_assumptions/
emi do
Tue 29 Oct 2019 1:10AM
@mikeh8: thank you for putting so much thought into this. I think it's awesome that you are able to articulate and organize your ideas in writing. For me, the theoretical ideas you're presenting are a bit taxing to my energy levels towards this project and it's hard for me to reconcile the proposals you've made with the practical issues we are facing on the platform.
JohnKuti · Fri 1 Nov 2019 5:02AM
not an exhaustive list of things to distinguish in a social network / information commons:
1.what’s important news for everybody, news for specialists in a particular area, personal reflection and ongoing communication between friends.
who should and shouldn't be allowed to register as a user.
speech and aggression.
“work” that should be paid in money and “work” that shouldn't.
issues where a collective acts as one and where each member acts separately.