Planning of Meet.coop Xmas party

[wouter]

and then somebody ended the meeting, while I wanted to make final screenshots! So much for making everyone a moderator -> giving the power to end the meeting is not such a good thing!!

FORTUNATELY I did make screenshots during each of the whiteboard activities, so we’ll be quite fine. And Ben told me he saved the chat, did you? Uff

I go and take care of the kids here, it was wonderful to meet up and draw/write together!!

[benhylau]

I have this:

and I posted the chat log in our chat.

[garyalex]

I thought it was a lovely party! There were about 15 of us, on and off, most of the time, many from the UK, but a gang from Toronto, and people from Barcelona, Paris, Berlin and South Africa. We had some silly games, some serious discussions and got to know each other. BBB worked well for us, and there were various things we could not have done on Zoom!

[wouter]

There were fun moments:

Unfortunately it was impossible to capture the “wave” we tried. But it was nice trying, hehe

[wouter]

Things participants like about mete.coop:

[wouter]

What does meet.coop mean in your mother tongue or languages that you know, and how would you translate meet.coop into them?

And Xmas trees started to appear

[wouter]

We briefly saw the draft roadmap, and while the group had no time to review it in detail, it helped get a feel for where we are heading to next year.
Also @NickM mentioned in the chat that we’d join forces to work on the SSO.

(if time would have permitted, we could have “voted” with dots on priorities for the group)

[wouter]

Organisations that are Ops Members (inner oval) or User members as per early December 2020:

comments from participants:

• WOW that circle filled out over the last year!
• i remember when there was only a few!

[wouter]

As last exercise we discussed the evolution of the meet.coop membership. In the last 5 months we went from 10 user members to 50, a five fold increase. How would you think it would evolve in 2021?

comments from participants:

• if we’d keep the same growth rate, we’d be reaching around 1500 members by the end of next year
• if we’d grow “only” ten times, we’d be around 500 members
• If we had 1500+, how much server space would we need? How much user support?
• have you done that ‘total addressable market’ thing? …and worked back from that?
• I think you could best do the growth hacking via affiliation and cross selling deals with other coops
• server space we don’t know but I expect the main cost is labour not computers
• i feel weird about the ppl in the growth/funnel hacking communities, but its undoubtedly effective imho

[wouter]

It was great to see members that we don’t normally see at regular meetings. Hellekin from Petite Singularite, @NickM from Resonate - an honour to have such guests crash at your party,

Excellent that @fredsultan, @mogams, @Dvdgmz joined, while we know you are there in the background, it was good for people to see faces and connect.
@georgiamoon and Eileen - now we know that we can practice German with @melissamcnab and @eileen and a few others
Great to see the wider Hypha team, with Pathcon and Dawn as well, apart from @elon, @Yurko and @benhylau as always
thanks for being there @3wc, @osb and little Zack!
And Cath from P6! Marco from FKI also joined for a while! And NickS, colleague from Mel at Code-Cooperative!

thanks to all for participating, and especially for @garyalex to co-host, and to be patient with me

[melissamcnab]

Fantastic @wouter - Thanks for posting! - was a fun evening.

Nick S was with me, he co-owns our co-operative (Code-Operative)

[wouter]

thanks, Mel. now I recall and Nick has a daughter in The Hague!