Summary of decisions, special All-hands & Board meeting, 02feb2023
Decision: no participant is against the rationale of folding meet.coop as it is.
Decision: accumulate some explicit learning. Many people have an interest in what our project has been, and what has worked.
Decision: Collocal absorbing our members and taking over platform ops is a fallback option, not the preferred option. We should notify @hng .
Migrate platform ops and member base to another multi-stakeholder co-op with its own strong community, member-facing front-end and subscription machinery: Commonscloud/femProcomuns, MayFirst, social.coop. Decision: This is the option we prefer. Much of the discussion was around social.coop, as a new home for the platform operation and for our members.
We have a decision on freezing our service commitments, providing plain vanilla rooms from now onwards, no more event servers or other ‘special’ services. @dvdjaco@Yurko
Also decision to create 1-page documentation of the tech operations aspect, to share with social.coop tech team (and publicly, thro the forum). @andia@dvdjaco
Also decision by @mnoyes , to raise within social.coop the matter of platform-transfer and member-transfer to social.coop (when the documentation above is to-hand).
6 months should be the max time to complete a transition, 2-3 months max to decide. We should start with the tech team at the host organisation, which will be faster, and if they give a green light then we would be looking at a 6-8 month decision time after that. Meanwhile we could include the social.coop tech team as meet.coop volunteers. Agreed.
We can meet again in march and see how things are going. March review - run a vote @ forum. Go/no-go with social.coop (Collocall as fallback).
What about the money we have now in the bank, can we use that to pay a decent salary for the time remaining? We can postpone that decision until the next meeting in march, there has been a lot of unpaid work in meetcoop, let’s all think about this.
Timing Decisions:
not running on for months indefinitely. Six months OUTSIDE to complete the transition. Tech transition itself takes some time. so - the decision/negotiation should be three months max
the ‘social’ timeline in a recipient coop could be 6-8 months?
Month 1 - communicate statement to all users, invite them for a short process of discussion in the forum with a decision about the path forward
write 1 pager
approach SC Tech WG- social.coop tech team will be YES/NO pretty fast
publish @ OpenCollective
open thread(s) @ forum
Crash team, to see this through - who? Decision: @mikemh@mnoyes (social.coop) @dvdjaco (SHORT discussions, tech style ), @Graham (work w members), @andia (comms incl 1-pager). Action mh: open a DM thread in forum
), @Graham (work w members), @andia (comms incl 1-pager). Action mh: open a DM thread in forum