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Hi #SoicalCoop! Organizing Circle meeting today touched on how we define member involvement and how decisions are made.
*Member involvement*: microblogging, financial contribution, strategic guidance, operational support, and social groups.
*Decision making*: Strategy via Loomia guides operational groups and role holders.
Add your comments in the Loomio thread here: https://www.loomio.com/d/7fdFsRj2/social-coop-governance-scoping
@CaitlinWaddick @Matt_Noyes @MarieVC @amonle @edumerco @flancian
LoomioSocial.coop governance scopingGreetings everyone!The Organizing Circle met today and below is the recap. We are looking for feedback on reworking the governance policy for social.coop. Please read the recap below and comment on what the Organizing Circle should consider when drafting this policy (aka what is the scope?).We identified the need for two levels of governance: one for social.coop and a second for the Organizational Circle. Governance needs to address how decisions are made and what processes support this. We want to center the following values in our governance: transparency, engagement, equity, and simplicity. An identified tension is how to listen to individual concerns from the minority while hearing feedback the majority. A question is what decisions are made in Loomio threads vs in working groups or circles (ie recent discussion around involvement in a research project https://www.loomio.com/d/2bIqy6FW/proposal-to-participate-in-eu-research-project vs a theoretical proposal to redistribute surplus budget direct to members).Many folks in the Organizing Circle are familiar with sociocracy (https://www.sociocracyforall.org/) and this structure seemed popular in the discussion. General tag lines for sociocracy are<br>Good enough for now, safe enough to try.<br>Those who do, decide.<br>We had lots of discussion around possible tech stacks including: Loomio threads for agenda/recaps supported by Wiki for documentation of termed policy. A challenge would be to ensure we revisit policies in a timely way.In the Organizing Circle we are going to loosely adapt a consent decision model. Kathe TB (me!) noted that she is getting training certification and could offer training if folks are interested in the future. Folks were generally enthusiastic about the agenda construction, facilitation, and timeliness of the meetings to date.Question to the general group: We seem to be outgrowing direct decision with Loomio and need a bit more structure. What else should we consider in designing the governance document for social.coop?Link back to agenda and notes thread: https://www.loomio.com/d/zI1q0w95/organizing-circle-meeting-2024-january-30-tuesday-1300utc
@ktoddbrown @Matt_Noyes @MarieVC @amonle @edumerco @flancian
We made a major decision:
“ • DECISION: ask FWG to make a formal budget proposal for 2024-5 to the membership.”