# Meet.coop intentions and distinctiveness **URL:** https://forum.meet.coop/t/meet-coop-intentions-and-distinctiveness/143 **Category:** Strategy **Tags:** member-ops, time-deliberating, board **Created:** [22 June 2020 22:09 UTC](https://forum.meet.coop/t/meet-coop-intentions-and-distinctiveness/143 "2020-06-22T22:09:05Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 3
### Author: ![mikemh](https://forum.meet.coop/user_avatar/forum.meet.coop/mikemh/32/358_2.png) [@mikemh](https://forum.meet.coop/u/mikemh) #### Post date: [22 June 2020 22:11 UTC](https://forum.meet.coop/t/meet-coop-intentions-and-distinctiveness/143/3 "2020-06-22T22:11:21Z")
Response by @benhylau to @mikemh : Thanks for sharing this Michael. **Is Hypha supportive of participatory democracy, local decision-making, intersectionality, and many other values of the municipalist project?** [Yes 🙂](https://handbook.hypha.coop/vision.html) **Is Meet.coop a response of the article?** That depends a lot on what organizational structure and governance and service model emerge from the current process. Of course I would like for Meet.coop to express these values above, and build towards the larger movement in the article. I think this will inform how Meet.coop expresses our approach to technology, _as a practice_ vs. _as a consumption_ . Are users _participants_ or _consumers_ ? If we directly copy from what collocall offers to their users, then we aren’t signaling our intentions to engage users as participants. On the other hand, as in the case where "traditional leftist background found it hard to simply change their ways of practicing politics overnight”, it is hard for those who want alternatives to Zoom to all of a sudden learn about cooperative membership in order to hop on a reliable videoconference call. 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**. What Luke says here seems like a good starting point: [Governance Model](https://forum.meet.coop/t/governance-model/128/12) Lastly, I think these are important discussions, and perhaps we can move this thread to the forum? --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.meet.coop/t/meet-coop-intentions-and-distinctiveness/143)._