Hello, posting this as the first step in forming the cotech coordinator proposal working group, as agreed at the gathering last week. (Proposal here: Autumn Gathering 2021 - CoTech )
Do you want to be in the working group? It means you’ll get to do work on some proposals.
If yes, when do you want to meet? In the proposal it says the group meets weekly.
How do you want to work?
I suggest we create a project board, and then spend an hour a week breaking down tasks, checking in and handing them out. Then work on tasks asynchronously.
What if I don’t want to join the group, but want to view the ongoing progress ahead of the next gathering? I think the best move is to check in on the group’s work on the wiki.
I’m excited about the potential of having a CoTech network co-ordinator
I think it’s important to keep commerce and the commons distinct*, meaning that I think that client-facing tasks, commercial co-ordination and perhaps co-ordination around the gatherings would be a very welcome addition to the network
Recent collaborative efforts like the shared infrastructure, propaganda working group and initially the newsletter have been kept out of contractural/exchange-based relationships, and they’re thriving. Of course facilitating these collaborations could be great as well, e.g. by giving prompts for people to contribute, but I’d like to clarify that we wouldn’t want to centralise the administration of these other aspects of CoTech’s activity
I’ve sent emails organising the first feedback session for the Cotech Coordinator Proposals.
If you didn’t get an email but would like to be in a feedback session for the proposals, please reply here or contact me directly and I will work on including you!
I have also updated the coordinator proposals wiki page with new pages for each proposal! Thanks to everyone so far who has engaged with the process, I’ve tried to include all the feedback that we’ve already had, but if I’ve left something out, let me know.