@melis_tailored you down if I most this private message thread to the Workshop area so it’s easier to keep in focus? I have so many forum messages right now lol
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Copy that. Some content coming up 
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…best to get that from @Angus now. If you want some general statements on our tech policy and principles to ‘feature’ or link to in the newsletter, see this post.
Grants:
There is no sign of the eSSIF-Lab BOC2 announcement yet (they are waiting for the legal checks to complete) so best say nothing on Stay Fair Play Fair yet… (also wait for Jonathan at FairBnB.coop to call this.)
eSSIF-Lab BOC1 funding final stage payment of €41k is due on Thursday this week:
“With the final part of our EU Next Generation Internet grant funding from ESSIF-Lab, we are able to move forward on trials of privacy-respecting ‘Artist Circles’ and further roll out of Community Credentials to our community. We are hugely grateful to all those who have participated and for the great support we have had from our EU NGI coaches. Thanks also to the other inspiring teams working with us to build a better, privacy-respecting internet. Look out in Community Forum for further news and developments.”
brandon - community update
Resonate Cooperative has had a series of conversations with grassroots alliances and organizations in the United States and Europe focusing on a collaborative effort to draw in on the experience and expertise of frontline communities in co-constructing our platform and developing tech-tools with digital dignity. Check out our TRUST Community Engagement Report to have a better sense of how that work is shaping. We’ve made updates to The Resonate Manifesto, which defines and further clarifies our intentions and purpose for building our cooperative in the ways we are. In the spirit of cooperation and collaboration, we also wanted to invite you to check out Art.coop’s Solidarity Not Charity - Grantmaking in the Solidarity Economy Report, as about their Study-To-Action Public+Talks they’re having on Fridays starting in September.
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@melis_tailored lmk if this works
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Moved topic to Workshop
no, still working on some aspects
@melis_tailored here’s a link to include in the newsletter:
Invite folks to follow the link and RSVP for the next General Meeting! Please include the time and date as well.
Great, thank you.
does anyone have anything else to write/share/add to the newsletter?
we’re now aiming for Friday - so please have everything to me latest on wednesday.
melissa
Final call for any updates to the newsletter. We are finalising it for tomorrow.
Melissa
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Trying to get clearance from colleagues in FairBnB.coop to announce this:
…or at least say something now that the winning teams have been announced among the EU Next Generation Internet community.
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In addition, Rich mentioned he would take a look at setting up our open collective page with some projects to reflect our funding needs. If we could put in a link to that in the newsletter, it could be shared more widely?
This is the ‘ask’ I updated for an upcoming EU NGI-facilitated meet potential backers session:
We have an existing, attractive web app player with approximately 20k tracks. We need an ‘app store presence’ and our back-end capacity for growth, including bulk uploading and rights management, needs improvement.
UX Design €15k
Front and Back-end Software Engineers and Developers €65k
Catalogue management team (Artist and Track data management, rights management) €30k
Marketing team €20k
Member services team €10k
Mobile apps design shop contract €90kProject Management €18k
Here is the context - they asked projects to complete a ‘business canvas’. Here’s ours:
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re: current postponements with our rulebook/secretary matters, think it’s prudent to hold off about introducing sue or me yet — will send farewell notice shortly though
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Former chairperson Terry Tyldesley and former Secretary Nick Meyne have announced their retirement from Resonate’s Board of Directors. While the co-operative is saddened to see them move forward from their governance roles, Resonate is elated for the new ventures both Terry and Nick are to embark on both within and outside of Resonate. Both board members tirelessly served Resonate for years, and we thank them for their invaluable contributions to building our community, and cannot wait to see all they proceed to accomplish.
@Nick_M @terry please feel free to edit and add details for anything you’d like us to mention !
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@angus and I met earlier today to review the rulebook and concluded that we have likely been running past board appointments incorrectly – including this recent one. Until we sort through that and come to an agreement about election standards, we don’t have clarity about the status of Sunita and Sue as board members. Out of respect for everyone involved – especially Sunita and Sue – let’s hold off on any announcements about their roles just yet.
Further elaborated on in Boardroom:
https://community.resonate.is/t/board-elections-process-postponing-general-meeting/1847
That is very kind Sunita, Thank you!
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@Hakanto I think it’s OK to announce the board comings and goings in good faith, irrespective of any formal legal position. It’s how we have been reasonably acting and behaving as a board until now. We can use the (acting) suffix in a footnote. If it turns out under investigation that none of us were appointed properly as directors then so be it.
We will fix it with the registrar when the all rulebook changes are caught up and the forms go in.
We know this should be done properly, with preparations for elections, a nomination committee and the like… All more work to be implemented in the transformation plan.
@melis_tailored On the press release, there is some doubt if the announcement really is ‘public’ or not. It has been made in the Fundingbox forum, but you have to sign up (open to anyone to sign up) to see it. I have written to them to check. Meantime @angus is doing some separate great work on a website and landing page for Coop Credentials, so best not to hold the presses for us - sorry - we can save it for the next edition.
