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| LittleWebster | Possible CPA Co-op contract? (added by ledmer_) | 11:38 |
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| jelkner | Hi all | 21:31 |
| anthony_p | hello | 21:31 |
| jelkner | Let's jump right in | 21:31 |
| johan_f | hello everyone | 21:31 |
| jelkner | I was pretty blown away by my experience at the CPA annual meeting yesterday | 21:31 |
| jelkner | I believe I understand why they reached out to us and why I didn't scare them away with my rant. | 21:32 |
| jelkner | And whether we get this gig or not, there is a huge business lesson here for us. | 21:33 |
| jelkner | So, a bit about CPA | 21:33 |
| jelkner | It is a non-profit purchasing cooperative | 21:33 |
| jelkner | i won't take time here to say what that is, but it behooves you all to study | 21:33 |
| jelkner | anyway, in 2011 a group of synagogues and churches formed it | 21:34 |
| jelkner | they began with energy purchases | 21:34 |
| jelkner | they have been growing like gang busters | 21:34 |
| jelkner | their big "breakthrough" in my opinion came when the recruited DC charter schools | 21:35 |
| jelkner | now most of their "big" members are those | 21:35 |
| jelkner | in addition to energy (gas, electricity, solar panels) | 21:36 |
| jelkner | they have relations with vendor (who were present at the meeting) | 21:36 |
| jelkner | for insurance | 21:36 |
| jelkner | for cleaning and maitenance services | 21:36 |
| jelkner | for food services | 21:36 |
| jelkner | one charter school that spoke provided 450 lunches a day | 21:37 |
| jelkner | and CPA provided that vendor | 21:37 |
| jelkner | i won't spend more time now | 21:37 |
| jelkner | but i'll sum up with this | 21:37 |
| jelkner | when the meeting ended and they reported back on the new services that members requested, guess what came up first? | 21:38 |
| jelkner | IT services!! | 21:38 |
| jelkner | so that's why they invited us | 21:38 |
| Ved | Wow | 21:39 |
| ledmer | what specific services are they looking for? | 21:39 |
| Ved | this is quite exciting | 21:39 |
| jelkner | they would be happy if they could find a low cost vendor of IT services to take care of their member's needs | 21:39 |
| Ved | how low is low though | 21:39 |
| jelkner | ledmer, all kinds of things | 21:39 |
| Ved | thats the big question | 21:39 |
| jelkner | not too low, ved | 21:39 |
| jelkner | what i mean is we are not talking bottom feeders | 21:39 |
| anthony_p | I think that in partnership with Jetro, their low end is probably not anything to worry about honestly | 21:40 |
| jelkner | their brand is that they are community focused, progressive, and diverse | 21:40 |
| Ved | Got it | 21:40 |
| jelkner | they want vendors that match their brand | 21:40 |
| ledmer | we are just that | 21:40 |
| Ved | yup | 21:40 |
| jelkner | anyway, we don't need to spend more time on this now | 21:40 |
| Ved | I like it, hopefully this Airtable project goes through | 21:40 |
| jelkner | but even if we don't get this gig | 21:41 |
| ledmer | we may have finally found our niche target | 21:41 |
| jelkner | and Alex is friendly enough that even if he says no, you could ask him why and tell him you are just getting started in business | 21:41 |
| jelkner | and could use the feedback | 21:41 |
| jelkner | let's see | 21:41 |
| jelkner | but remember, they came to us specifically because we are a *coop* | 21:42 |
| Ved | + | 21:42 |
| jelkner | while that is a niche market | 21:42 |
| jelkner | we are one of the few players in it | 21:42 |
| Ved | there are many fish in the sea | 21:42 |
| ledmer | right | 21:42 |
| jelkner | so you young business padawans need to learn a lesson from this | 21:42 |
| jelkner | ok, that's all i got | 21:43 |
| devesh | +1 | 21:43 |
| jelkner | ACTION done | 21:43 |
| Ved | sounds great | 21:43 |
| jelkner | anything else? | 21:43 |
| jelkner | i have a 5 pm video meeting i need to set up | 21:43 |
| anthony_p | it's certainly an opportunity on the business side of things, and I think we should definitely engage them further, because regular business with them by all appearances should be helping people that can use that help | 21:43 |
| jelkner | so i need to leave 5 minutes before 5 | 21:43 |
| jelkner | +1 anthony_p | 21:44 |
| Ved | yes hopefully im able to sway them towards us | 21:44 |
| ledmer | +1 | 21:44 |
| johan_f | +1 | 21:44 |
| devesh | +1 | 21:44 |
| anthony_p | +1 | 21:44 |
| jelkner | anything else, or are we finished? | 21:45 |
| anthony_p | i want to point out, they're probably also a candidate for Decidim in the future as well | 21:45 |
| Ved | Perhaps but I reached out to them initially for that and they said theyre not interested | 21:46 |
| Ved | But then they said they would be interested in us doing other projects for them | 21:46 |
| anthony_p | the number of groups and people they work with might be conducive to using that platform for shaping the direction of their coop and insert more democratic access to their decision making process among their members and partners | 21:46 |
| johan_f | so as a collective they are not interested | 21:47 |
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| johan_f | goodby all | 21:48 |
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| klarios | hello, sorry I am late, busses are delayed. I can look at the logs. | 21:50 |
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