Templating the Co-op Start-Up Process

As is this:

http://www.reconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Do-ocracyHandbookREconomy2016.pdf

Although a few bits now out of date. @coopsmark you gonna do an updated version? or is there already one? :slight_smile:

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Interesting reading about our experiment with the new start-up tool “level”, thx for the comments.

On a related note,open data services helped us put our worker co-op rules on github as another way to reach out to a tech audience. It’s been done in such a way that if people have improvements or want to tailor the rules to their own needs, they can. Edits can either be forked off into a new version or if in time deemed better practice than the original merged back in.

I like this idea and wonder if it would work for other core worker co-op guidance/resources like developing a how to start a co-op guide or the worker co-op code of governance.

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Need to get this whole list up on there @athertonjohn

Model governing documents | Co-operatives UK

And on https://www.gitbook.com/ too

Then we need to contact all the sponsoring bodies and do the same with all their model rules too. List of sponsoring bodies here http://web.archive.org/web/20150924055310/http://www.fca.org.uk/static/documents/forms/mutuals-model-rules-sponsors-list.pdf (new FCA site doesn’t seem to have the list at the moment)

Love that. Might try to convert some Canadian model governance docs :slight_smile:

Not sure what data standard it’s using, but for future convo, Akoma Ntoso is a standard for legal docs (incl legislation and by-laws):

There’s an open source online editor: Demo | LIME

Akoma Ntoso has been finalized, but as with most specs, it has been criticized for being overly complicated. So I’m glad we are started with someone much simpler (and in existence!)

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Oh hey, I dug up this tool I found ages ago:

It basically takes a Google Spreadsheet and uses that to drive the data of a visual drag-and-drop contract wizard. could prob be just as effective as by-law builder

With the right schema for the xml, the spreadsheet could be auto-generated, or vice versa (not sure the best canonical form)

EDIT: Seems their GitHub Pages website is down, but relaunched here (might need some love, in retrospect): Contract Generator (see below)

Original creator of the contract builder just pushed a newer, better version here:
https://blopa.github.io/contract/VueJS/

They seem open to suggestions for features to make it more useful:

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Re: yourlevel.co.

Hey @athertonjohn, I have a group of technologists that’s tentatively interested in exploring creation of a similarly-intentioned tool for the Canadian context. Might you have any resources to share, or be open to doing a call? Curious how the experiment is going!

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Hello Billy
This is a great idea to build a template system.
Does there exist a website hosting contract, that we might use?
Thanks in advance.
Felix

I’m not @BillySmith, but I also don’t understand the question - could you elaborate on what you are looking for and then perhaps people here will be more able to help? :slight_smile:

Thank you @BillySmith. We have been asked by a website client who we also host their site for them for a web hosting contract. We already provide an SLA and service description.
This has been requested from an “audit committee into business continuity, and had some questions around what would happen to our website/data if there was a major problem

Again, I’m not Billy (and I’m not sure he could help, afaik he isn’t involved in web hosting)

Also, I think your request is off topic and you’d be more likely to get a useful response from the network if you just created a new topic asking if anyone has a web hosting contract they could share :slightly_smiling_face:

Thank you @jdaviescoates will do, that’s very helpful.

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That website isn’t working anymore. What happened @dansmallaxe ?