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| ledmer | !add Introducing Devesh | 20:26 |
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| anthony_p | just had a nice slice of fresh baked bread | 20:29 |
| anthony_p | how's everyone else doing? | 20:29 |
| ledmer | Good! | 20:30 |
| johan_f | I'm doing well | 20:31 |
| jelkner | anthony_p, you're able to come next week in person, yes? | 20:32 |
| anthony_p | I should be able to be there next week, yes | 20:32 |
| jelkner | we have someone coming from the Democracy Collaborative | 20:33 |
| anthony_p | That's great | 20:34 |
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| jelkner | we will be planning a dinner for VASEN. | 20:34 |
| ledmer | !agenda | 20:34 |
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| Devesh | Hi | 20:36 |
| johan_f | hello | 20:36 |
| anthony_p | hi | 20:36 |
| anthony_p | I had my meeting with Jim Johnson, the independent coop developer, yesterday | 20:37 |
| johan_f | how was it? | 20:37 |
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| anthony_p | there was a lot of talk about nova's background and him filling me in on his background and groups he works with to accomplish growth in coops | 20:37 |
| V_ | Hey everyone, i’d like to introduce Devesh. He is a Junior at Washington-Liberty High school. He will be helping with the business side of things as well as helping with taxes for novaweb and secosol | 20:38 |
| anthony_p | nice to meet you Devesh | 20:39 |
| anthony_p | during the meeting with Jim, one of the things that he emphasized was identifying our current capacity, and to make sure that we don't exceed it, but also to make sure we have projects that utilize it effectively as well | 20:39 |
| Devesh | Looking forward to working with you guys. | 20:39 |
| jelkner | I had a long meeting with Devesh last Thursday where I subjected him to several hours of torture listening to a detailed history of our several organizations. | 20:40 |
| johan_f | welcome devesh | 20:40 |
| jelkner | Not only is he interested in finances, he is interested in fund raising too! | 20:40 |
| jelkner | I told him if he can figure out how to get us some grants, we can pay him for his time. | 20:41 |
| jelkner | SJC perhaps? | 20:41 |
| jelkner | SECOSOL? | 20:41 |
| anthony_p | He was also open to giving us a visit during one of our regular thursday meetings, and has a good number of connections to the seed commons financing network | 20:41 |
| jelkner | awesome, anthony_p! | 20:41 |
| Devesh | That all sounds good | 20:41 |
| jelkner | We want to make Thursdays into a community meeting space | 20:41 |
| jelkner | we have access to a whole trailer of classrooms | 20:42 |
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| jelkner | so we can even have several work sessions going on, giving each one there own room | 20:42 |
| johan_f | anthony_p sounds good. Also do you remember the name of a coop he worked with? | 20:42 |
| anthony_p | the tech collective peer network meeting went pretty well also, and they're looking to put together a "needs & offers" list for the different tech coops to share what they can provide to each other and what they would like support with from each other | 20:43 |
| johan_f | anthony_p Thank you for raising the character limit for comments | 20:44 |
| ledmer | talking about decidim | 20:45 |
| johan_f | yeah | 20:45 |
| anthony_p | I don't remember specifically which coop he was a member of, but he helped build and was part of his own coop for a decade before getting out of it and moving to freelance work with USFWC and different coop development organizations like the Baltimore Round Table | 20:45 |
| ledmer | I wasn't able to find a page to put the summaries fo the meetings | 20:45 |
| anthony_p | we should put the summaries in the meetings, in comments or attachments | 20:47 |
| ledmer | I just asked johan | 20:47 |
| johan_f | ive showed ledmer how to make meetings now | 20:47 |
| anthony_p | great! | 20:47 |
| johan_f | i have one more thing to say | 20:47 |
| ledmer | He told me were to put them, I will find it | 20:47 |
| ledmer | update it*** | 20:47 |
| johan_f | jelkner was talking about to me about the decidim business plan | 20:48 |
| johan_f | To help with that I was looking into companies like open source politics that use decidim to see if they were public or not | 20:48 |
| jelkner | yes, we need to develop a business plan | 20:48 |
| johan_f | I found out that OSP was private and also part of the decidim partners | 20:49 |
| johan_f | https://decidim.org/partners/ | 20:50 |
| anthony_p | that just reminded me of one of the topics of discussion with Jim, his original coop was a web development coop that produced websites that performed statistical analysis for state governments, so he has experience with getting government contracts as well | 20:50 |
| johan_f | Essentially decidim has partners that give them a portion of their income (1.5% to 3%) in exchange for Decidim promoting them and recommending them | 20:51 |
| anthony_p | We can potentially do something similar, but we have to have something running and proof of concept if anyone's going to work with Nova in the same way | 20:53 |
| anthony_p | where are we on a business plan? | 20:54 |
| anthony_p | do we even have a working document? | 20:54 |
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| anthony_p | or any example documents to reference? | 20:54 |
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| jelkner | anthony_p, i don't know how to make a business plan | 20:56 |
| jelkner | i've never done it | 20:56 |
| jelkner | if you know any good, *simple* templates | 20:56 |
| johan_f | I don't think we do I was mentioning the partners as I thought we can research into them as part of them are service providers of Decidim | 20:56 |
| jelkner | i would be grateful if you sent them my way | 20:56 |
| anthony_p | I haven't either, and I don't know anyone who has made one either | 20:56 |
| jelkner | but most business plans are evil | 20:56 |
| jelkner | so i want to write one that isn't evil | 20:57 |
| anthony_p | i'll email Jim and ask him | 20:57 |
| jelkner | we want to make living, not a killing | 20:57 |
| jelkner | that's not usually how it works :-( | 20:57 |
| jelkner | anyway, time's up | 20:57 |
| jelkner | let's continue this next week | 20:57 |
| anthony_p | okay, i'll email jim about a business plan, see you all next week! | 20:57 |
| johan_f | alright see everyone next week! | 20:57 |
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| ledmer | Bye | 21:03 |
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