Broad agreement to migrate meet. coop
Meeting of meet. coop @evolution team, WebTV and innovation. coop 2023 07 17. See the notes here: Nextcloud
The proposal:
We propose Webtv operates the (BBB) service and innovation.coop pays them for that. Innovation.coop handles marketing and customer first line support, and - if there is interest amongst the user base - engages with users to involve them in governance to whatever level they desire.
We’re keen in our meeting to get a sense from Gabriel as to where the natural/comfortable boundaries are for Webtv and to seek to work with those where we can. We feel both Webtv and innovation.coop have some flexibility and share a desire to see meet.coop survive and thrive as a cooperative brand and a basis for evolving community.
There is good agreement on this, and WebTV @gcotnoir is now in conversation with meet. coop Tech circle @dvdjaco @Yurko on migrating the platform. Will assess, and come up with a timeframe.
Next steps
- Ops members to approve the proposal, including use of the current funds at OC Meet.coop - Open Collective. A large part should go to compensate the workers that worked on meet. coop for the last 3 years without much compensation. @wouter at work on this.
- Pitch to Ops members: Discuss: how can they stay involved? Encourage them to continue contributing.
- Pitch to User members: we propose to migrate to a new mode of federating meet. coop v2.0: webtv + innovation. coop, new version BBB
, continue investing energy. Not a voting matter (this lies with Ops members), we invite comment and strategic advice, ultimately they vote with their feet as users, and we do all we can to enthuse and engage them. - For all the above: develop some revised advisory and contributory framework aka governance through innovation. coop. Is there a kind of meet. coop circle inside innovation. coop? A circle could hold scheduled open meetings (‘User community’?) maybe two or four times a year. Anybody interested can contribute. @Graham wonders whether the Board membership can be morphed into User community, simpler than convening a Board with fixed membership but variable availability? To be discussed. The challenge is to keep the wagon on the road, halt decline in membership, start process of engaging w user members and potential users. We will be led by the energy of our customers/members. Avoid unnecessary complexity in governance.