Governance Model

Organization circle
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I consolidated what we discussed so far, and from yesterday’s meeting, into this that I hope to receive feedback on Thursday. If we can get this sorted, we can move on to drafting what our Circles are and decision-making and voting in the next Governance meeting.

Proposed one pager

Meet.coop, The Online Meeting Co-operative, is a meeting and conferencing platform powered by BigBlueButton, stewarded by co-operatives across the world.

We have two types of memberships–Operational Members and Beneficiary Members. One may apply to one or both membership types as an organization or as an individual.

Operational Members steward all operational aspects of Meet.coop.

  • To apply, you must commit a minimum of 500 in Euros, equivalent resources, or 40 hours of voluntary labour in work areas defined by the Co-operative.
  • In turn, you may participate in the Co-operative’s working Circles and are eligible to apply for waged positions defined by the Co-operative. An Operational Member may also self-elect to become a Beneficiary Member as well, without an application process or paying annual membership fees as long as they remain an active Operational member.
  • To maintain active membership, you must be contributor to at least one Circle and participate in at least 50% of our All Hands meetings.

Beneficiary Members use the Meet.coop platform for internal meetings or resell Greenlight accounts.

  • To apply, you must commit a minimum of 200 in Euros per year.
  • In turn, you will get a set of Greenlight containers as according to our defined Service Levels, which you can manage for reselling our BigBlueButton server capacity. You may also participate in the Co-operative’s working Circles.
  • To maintain active membership, you must maintain good standing with annual membership fees and from your resale revenue, pay a percentage set by the Co-operative to Meet.coop to cover its operation costs, and provide best-effort oversight to your Greenlight accounts in compliance with the Co-operative’s Fair Use Agreement.

All membership starts with an application to contact@meet.coop. Upon approval, in addition to the responsibilities and rights for the type of membership, the new member may also participate in the Assembly, Forum, and other member spaces. All memberships carry voting rights with voting strengths as according to membership type and level of participation.

Current membership as according to above

Currently, the following organizations and individuals meet the application criteria above based on Contributions page:

Operational Members

  • Autonomic Cooperative (40h from Luke)
  • Collective.tools (50-100€/month for renting servers + hours from Petter)
  • Digital Life Collective (2x E5440 @ 2.83GHz (8 core) 16GiB ram 2TB machine at 198.204.235.226/29)
  • femProcomuns (40h from Wouter, David)
  • FOSSHOST.org (VPS dev.meet.coop + TURN/STUN turn.fosshost.coop)
  • Hypha (40h from Ben, Yurko, Elon)
  • Webarchitects (40h from Chris)
  • Mike Hales (individual) (€120 + hours)

Beneficiary Members

  • Animorph Co-op (€500)
  • Free Knowledge Institute (€500)
  • May First Movement Technology (£225)

The following organizations and individuals are unclear:

  • Agile collective
  • Koumbit (our main server is with Koumbit and Sébastien has spent time on Meet.coop)
  • Melissa (individual)
  • Remix the Commons
  • Yasu (individual)

Sébastien, Melissa, and Yasu are all involved, it’s just unclear from the Contributions page whether they intend to commit to the threshold of being an Operational Member.

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