All Hands 5 May 2022

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In view of a crirtical situation with membership, income, paid hours and communication across ops members https://forum.meet.coop/t/sustainability-discussion/970/77 I propose an alternate agenda for this all-hands.
Two items, 30min each:

  1. A proposal for sign-up automation and limited user interaction, based on @benhylau yesterday
    https://forum.meet.coop/t/sustainability-discussion/970/71
    and comments that follow in that thread.
  • Questions include:
  • A short-term focus on rapidly engineering a slimmed-down platform operation involving one decently paid Admin person and a Tech team/person (decently paid?)? Who to occupy these roles?
  • Would/could this then be scaled? Adding further regional servers (eg Agaric’s proposal)? Adding labour-intensive relationships with users back in again? Etc?
  • Would this be a multistakeholder coop? A consumer coop? A worker-coop-ish free software project bringing in a small income and federating loosely with other projects/coops?
  • Etc?
  1. A matching proposal on short-term marketing work (Business plan, Marketing plan, dramatic membership increase) based on
    @osb https://forum.meet.coop/t/sustainability-discussion/970/23 and comments that follow in that thread
    @Graham “marketing activity can shift focus from stopping the rapidly emptying bucket of paying members . . and filling it up”.
  • Questions include:
  • Alongside the slim-platform development above, could this also be paid work? Or is it further sweat-equity debt that might not be repaid?
    @wouter “We have collectively incurred around 50.000 GBP as debt towards the operational members”
    How OK is that?
  • Is dramatically increased membership essential anyway (>10x), to pay wages in the slimmed-down platform operation?
  • Etc?
  1. AN Other item? If the above radical slimming and concentration of work contributions is adopted, does it remove the pressure from the communication issues flagged within the Sustainabiity discussion?
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