Evolution 1 - Find a new home

Summary of actions - meet. coop Board of stewards 27apr2023

  1. Governance: @wouter volunteers to draft a format for All members to vote. add a general vote for the whole membership, user and operational member. Also include the “collaborator members” class that was added a year ago…
  2. Infrastructuring: @mikemh to talk w @petter on federating of platform space provisioning. Convene sysadmins from our community to explore @ commons.hour @flancian volunteers participation too. Include Autonomic (CommonsCloud). @gcotnoir obviously. Tech circle obviously (@dvdjaco, @yurko). Micky Metts @ Agaric. MayFirst perhaps (their strategy is different). Oli SB @ OpenCoop is collaborating w Collective Tools in this area. Fair.kom @ Vienna.
  3. Data privacy: @mikemh to convene a commons.hour on privacy/security/national regulatory frameworks/server strategy/coop service strategy. Include: @petter, @flancian. Tor project (@anarcat). Simply Secure (Georgia Bullen). @gcotnoir.@dvdjaco.
  4. Members’ participation & communication: @mikemh: Create a forum thread to highlight the task lists in the four main evolution topics.
  5. Members’ participation & communication: @richjensen: Send out a newsletter about this Board conversation so members get aware of this and get encouraged to contribute. @wouter Rich, if you manage to draft a summary message, I can help sending it out through the channelsmh: do this as a forum thread, announce via OpenCollective mailing.
  6. Governance: @wouter: proposal about responsibilities in the Board of Stewards that we want to uphold recurringly or that need tackling topically. Include time commitment. Include possibility of ‘project focus’ - eg infrastructuring thro federating.

Full notes of the meeting: Nextcloud