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Current Agenda includes:
Completing a draft Charter: Example (blank)
Brainstorming about Forum features
Forum governance policy
From the notes:
Good examples of Forum-type navigation:
(Models suggested for our Forum)
Really good article, Nick. The āmust readsā at the bottom look good too ā just read one and thought it was excellent, especially in regards to creating a better sense of which communication tools suit which situations, and what they foster.
I will be āhostingā the space for the first time, and it will be a great opportunity for any member of the community to participate and meet other members. The main objective of these sessions is to discuss about the Resonate forum and community, and also about anything related to Resonate and music in general. I will be present until 13:00 GMT. Everyone is welcome!
November 28 - 12:00 GMT āA-Side Meetingā (naming convention in place until discontinued)
Omar and Rich
Omar has committed to facilitating meetings though Jan 23 (?)
Starting with defining the charter: (revising from notes of Nov 14 below)
November 29 - 00:00 GMT āB-Side Meetingā (Jonny @CosmicHighness) has committed to facilitating meetings through Jan 23(?)
Rich / Hakanto / Sam / Jonny
Jonny opens.
Rich theory of governance circle
Participation depends on What kind of time commitment do people have?
Notes from the chat. During the meeting.
notes:
Draft Charter Template Dochttps://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1E1Gq8pbTLmWnWOwI0sjbgFWOCF7NCzudrjDQN5o3brw/edit?usp=sharing
16:01
Sam Martyn
getting setup now
16:13
btwā¦ Iām trying to take notes on the notes pageā¦
icebreaking
different people have different behaviors
h- when you are new it is hard to know what the tone of the space is
the value of a greeter
16:19
Hakanto
16:21
Sociocracy - safe enough to try
r- pitching the experimental culture
h - pitching a culture where even if people donāt agree, they can figure out something worth trying
about fostering experiences
bc experiences create stories that allow people to learn together
j - Iām into trying things instead of theorizing
there can be unlikely outcomes (pro)
s - be thoughtful about governance language. try to cover all the contingencies but keep it simple in everyday language.
Get the charter filled in and work at improving.
pitching the idea of getting the minimum viable statement out thereā¦ and adapt.
Question. How important is the forum?
Make sure that we are being efficient with our time.
H- What impact would there be on Resonate if there was no forum?
S - maybe they build community a different way? What do they want to use?
16:35
Hakanto
16:42
R - tells a story about the forumā¦
the old chat spaceā¦ peter open the forumā¦ basecampā¦
we can have different spaces for different people
different functionsā¦
r - itās about designā¦
sam - three biggest thingsā¦ developing the platformā¦ fundingā¦ coordinate the workā¦
Operations meetingā¦ 8am Monday.
H - Interested in Co-op
People donāt know what a co-op is.
I donāt think it is anyoneās responsibility to do all the research. Doesnāt fit with some peopleās personality types. Co-op should be educating.
Interested in co-opās because they are not charities.
can decide to be a conventional business. but it is up to the co-op to decide how to run.
management is accountable to the participants.
H - method of extending timeā¦concept of āante upā.
Be precise about the time. Not just staying longer.
R - THE CO-OP IS ABOUT TIME
S - Looking at Basecampā¦ see accountabilityā¦ embrace failureā¦
The right questions can get the conversation going.
Objectives: (For Community Forum Governance Circle)
Governance Task: (High-level purpose draft for Co-op as a whole.)
Create, maintain and articulate the location, purpose, standards of behavior and decision-making methods for Resonate co-op spaces.
Forum Governance Circle Objective: (High-level purpose draft for forum.)
Establish, maintain and articulate the location, purpose, standards of behavior and decision-making methods for the Resonate Community Forum, ie community.resonate.is/coop.
Listening is active not passive.
The Community Forum Governance Circle (CFGC) should:
Maintain and cultivate clear statements of purpose and goals for the Forum.
Provide shared representative space for developing designs for the Forum that make being in the forum a good experience
Governance Circle should make sure that Forum processes are working (See experimental method below)
The CF should have a Welcoming Purpose
The Forum should provide easy orientation to whole design of the coop
A place to accommodate work
Clarifying expectations for participation
The CFGC should be the accountable vehicle for members and CF Stakeholders to: make sure the forum governance processes are transparent and intentional - āexplaining the why.ā
The Establish policy / Strategy - important precedents - Review Terms and Conditions
The two hosts are striving to maintain a common thread for folks to grab on to.
Method: Managing sequences of experiments
Objective proposal for Draft Charter:
Propose and control forum features and gain feedback from community members
Streams and Roles:
Method: Rich pitches concept for convening twinned or alternating Circle meetings scheduled approximately twelve hours apart to accommodate two host teams (Provisionally called āThe A-side and the B-sideā convening twin meetings to cover Four Hosts handling alternating weeks to convene circle meetings.
ROLE A: Commit to hosting regular meetups, they maintain a common thread of orienting information for people to work off of, with a particular focus on the international nature of Resonateās work; tending the soil for growth; nursery gardener looking for sprouts
ROLE B: Helper
paired Host Quartet
Scope & Constraints:
Like an experiment.
With review dates.
What is the final vision for the forum. Rich tells a story about a future where there is no specific geographical bias. Not Western Europe not Anglophone.
How We Work:
As a series of experiments safe enough to try.
An Experiment requires a plan, a commitment to practice for a time, a commitment to review and evaluate.
By engagement we create experience from which best practices can emerge.
Maximum peopleās freedom, initiative, and creativity ā by making it clear whatās out-of-bounds ā make it specific ā how do you lose the job - defined endpoints.
A thread
International meetings
Key Stakeholders:
Links:
Key Tasks & Deliverables:
What brings someone to a forum:
The conversations, the care, the people, the respect. Good writing.
Connections, shared insight and information, passing on knowledge
Learning new things
A clear theme ā everyoneās there for a specific reason that connects you
Like-minded vision
āWhat are you committing to?ā
November 21 - Meeting Notes
1200 GMT - Omar / Rich
Omar:
Supporting Hakantoās Welcoming Kit notes
Omar will to be considered as a facilitating member of the GMT NOON Governance Circle // Rich - offers to an initial alternate
Define roles of Facilitating Member(s) and Alternate(s)
(Jonny Wolf is considering becoming first Facilitating Member of NIGHT Forum Governance Circle with Rich as initial Alternate)
Through 3rd of January. Which would be a time for re-evaluation and perhaps setting terms for another experimental interval. (Series of experiments concept from Hakanto).
Notes for NIGHT meeting:
Rich: I really like the idea of having teams that are built around the idea of some member working while others are sleeping. So I have tried to bring this to the design of this circle
We like Plant metaphors for the forum:
Tending, Gardening, Cultivating, production under certain amount of self-regulation, (co-regulation) life-cycles coming from the system itself. (Rich reflects on Hakantoās concept of the Spirit Captain from Bandarr.)
Goals for Forum:
Place
Goals for this meeting:
Fit words into the topics for the charter.
Start that activity by 4:45.
Hakanto has an idea:
Noticedā¦ Engagement comes from a question, or proposal or pitch. People arenāt starting threads. Also, spaces arenāt defined. Think it would be interesting to say: you are free to start a category on the forum, but you have to commit to posting a question at least weekly in the space. Rule: a Category is valid if there is a minimum thresh-hold of activity. Move from Active to Inactive. H- Offers āGardenā as metaphor. Gardens need a Gardener.
H - Thinking we should beware of offering Categories from the top down. Categories should follow engagement.
Publish a methodology for opening new Categories.
Rich: Question: What should we do about old Categories right now?
Future Meetings:
Have a clear agenda/objective to the meeting.
(Consideration of the creative benefits of meetings without structure or that have āopenā time designed into the program.)
Setting rules or procedures to creating documentation relating to Meeting Notes:
Should be a scribe keeping notes.
Clear statement of location of previous documents and working policies.
Settling time frame for facilitators commitment and review of Governance Circle processes.
Describe embodiment. A component of being human-centric.
Story-telling. The history of the forum. The future of the forum. The purpose of the meeting. To set up a representative governance circle to design the forum, problem-solving within the forum
Posting this as it seems to connect well and inform the Governance Circle conversation last Saturday. Outlines the Co-opās working business case and method as well as describing the Co-opās intentions for hacking the technology that supports this Discourse forum to provide a Verifiable Credentials service that can be used to connect Member services across co-operative communities. @Sam_Martyn Credit to @Nick_M for driving this documentation.
