The Workers Co-op Weekend was great 
, thanks @athertonjohn for organising it.
We had a well attended session on CoTech that @Kayleigh ran.
And then on Sunday we had a really positive discussion between three Cotech co-ops, Outlandish, Co-operative Web and Webarchitects and the main food co-ops present, Infinity, Suma, Essential and Greencity (nobody from Unicorn came to this session but @Kayleigh will also email Dan at Unicorn about the meeting).
The key points that I think came out of this were that:
- The co-ops are using different point of sale / warehouse inventory software, this is a massive and complicated, crucial and key part of their IT infrastructure.
- The co-ops are looking at options for HRM software, I started a thread on open source options.
- We all agreed that it would be great to see if we can co-operate together more and that if one or two people from CoTech could visit each of the food co-op to get a better understanding of their current systems and needs that this could provide a very valuable starting point. The idea would be that the food co-ops would be able to put people up for free and that we could apply to SolidFund for the cost of the fares, perhaps we could also get a grant to fund this. Any volunteers to take this on, it should be fun.