I don’t think meet.coop should be led by the technology - or what software already exists…
I think we should aspire to being great and providing a great service… for anyone who wants to ditch Zoom and become part of a cooperative future. To me that means we set our sights high and work around any tech issues… I completely understand that we need to be pragmatic about
what we can do in the next few weeks with the hardware, software, knowledge and skills that we currently have.
But I don’t think that (i.e. what we can do in the next few weeks) should have anything to do with our “governance model” (which is now the title of this thread…) in fact, I don’t think governance should be conflated with marketing at all (which is why i started a separate thread about Marketing specifically).
A lot of potential customers will want the services that meet.coop is providing - but will not want anything to do with governance.
I agree with the governance strategy proposed by Benedict (via an email thread):
I’d like us to strike a balance, where we make sign-up really easy, but at the same time allow for paths for anyone to meaningfully participate in decision-making if they want .
me too!
RE enabling people to sign up quickly and easily for meet.coop services (i.e. Marketing!) as @decentral1se said:
I would agree with leaving it the coop level but then again, I imagine that will totally confuse new customers.
Avoiding confusion and making signing up super easy is our KEY goal - if we want customers!??!
And there seems to be some disagreement about this… as @chris said:
I’m not convinced that we should have individual customers at a
meet.cooplevel
So this seems like the first thing we need to agree on … because unless we have some agreement on that we can not design a governance model or any marketing plans…
So maybe that should be a key decision for the meeting tomorrow? - NB what time and where is this meeting?!
Just for clarity (and in case I can not join the meeting) - I’m 100% behind the idea that meet.coop should be able to accept individual customers as I know there is significant interest in such a service - and if it meet.coop does not cater for that need then I think it will miss out on significant revenues and the potential to do many more exciting this once we have developed a strong customer base… but if meet.coop doesn’t want to fill that need then that’s OK too i guess… although I can’t see why meet.coop would pass up on such an amazing opportunity to become a leader in cooperation and collaboration!?