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@gc Right now we operate collectively, so there is no board to elect, which would be the purpose of elections. There's some discussion on a thread in the Governance working group on Loomio about whether or not a standing governing body will be desirable as we scale...

@mattcropp why do you need a board to have elections? there are plenty of things you can elect people to do besides sit on a board lol. my house operates collectively too, but we're having elections for our ~9 officer positions tonight - and afaik, all the housing co-ops in austin elect officers of some sort. sure, my house is only twenty people, not a couple hundred people, but I don't know why that would mean social.coop wouldn't benefit from having elected positions of some kind.

@gc We are in the process of discussing the formation of more formalized "Operations Teams" for each working group, so how those roles are populated seems like a good place to discuss elections.

And, now that I think of it, we did do an election of @Matt_Noyes to a six month term as our rep to the Internet of Ownership Council, and we also did vote in @ntnsndr to the "treasurer" role early on, but it would be useful to have a regular time to review those roles.

@mattcropp @ntnsndr @Matt_Noyes ok, cool! so we've already been doing one off elections occasionally, that's really good to hear. I definitely think we should start having regular elections, eg every 6 months, for all of the officer positions. the duties of those officers should also be explicit and in the bylaws.

I'll check out the loomio thread in a bit, but some example officers we could use might be:

- the head of each ops team
- treasurer
- membership
- sysadmin
- education/social