Join us tomorrow for Members Hours (Tuesday 4pm PT/ 7pm ET) where we will dive into prep for agm, including explainer, and any resolutions you might want to put forward

Anything else to cover?

If not already signed up, link here: https://lu.ma/6n73vv6l

#CoSocialCa

As we're prepping for our #CoSocialAGM2023 and are leaning into the members forum more fully, I ended up posting our official rules of the #coop https://members.cosocial.ca/t/rules-of-the-cosocial-community-cooperative/95

I _think_ we can take the PDF and turn it into a set of linked forum pages and it will be usefully indexed and searchable.

If you'd like to help with this, leave a comment.

Note: that is a #CoSocialCa members-only link. We might make it visible in the future, but for now, serving members.

@evan I don't object in principle to advertising to fund services, but for me one of the attractions of #CoSocialCa was that it's funded by member subscriptions.

I'm soliciting feedback on a possible resolution to prohibit advertising at #CoSocialCa

https://members.cosocial.ca/t/agm-prep-getting-ready-for-october-3rd/86/5?u=evan

#CoSocialAGM2023

I'm running for the Board of Directors of #CoSocialCa at our annual general meeting.

This is my candidate statement:

https://members.cosocial.ca/t/agm-prep-getting-ready-for-october-3rd/86/4?u=evan

#CoSocialAGM2023

@jensorensen I think #CoSocialCa would do great on Co-op Tank

🌞 Productive hour- Tools chat: Shared what we have in place. Discourse is promising, clarity on permissions and other guidance is needed. Jitsi is our tool for meetings. Still seeking some tools (💡welcome for voting? surveys?). Tackling distributed decisions, but slowly and steadily getting there. Onward we go!
Tx ... anything missing: @aeisenberg @alkatandan @boris @dawn @jlin @mick @ryancoordinator
#CoSocialCa

Pre-maintenance checklist complete, all tests pass.

Should be smooth sailing tomorrow morning. Aiming for < 30 minutes.

https://cosocial.info/blog/scheduled-downtime-for-database-upgrade/

#CoSocialTechOps #CoSocialCa

I did some simplistic math on storage costs for #CoSocialCa as part of looking at offering Pixelfed.

The recent release also has sign in with Mastodon.

Have a look at the numbers and discussion https://members.cosocial.ca/t/running-pixelfed-at-cosocial/29

#CoSocialPixelfed

@aeisenberg Welcome to #CoSocialCa!

Good discussions around #CoSocialCa co-op matters like:

Should we support organizations having accounts https://members.cosocial.ca/t/organizational-member-pricing-and-details/53

Support for no charge low income accounts https://members.cosocial.ca/t/purchasing-donating-on-behalf-of-low-income-members/62

Approaches to supporting emergency / fire info https://members.cosocial.ca/t/yellowknife-evacuation/64

Some of these are publicly readable but only members can comment, some are members only. We’re still testing this and any decision type stuff isn’t happening there.

Hey #CoSocialCa we’re continuing to experiment with #CoSocialDiscourseForum at https://members.cosocial.ca

You can login with your existing Mastodon account, although you do need to confirm an email (can use the same one).

Your account will need to be manually upgraded, right now by me when I see the new signup, and I’ll DM you when I’ve done that (or you can DM me and I can do it right away).

All right cosocialists of #CoSocialCa !

The World At Six tonight had a segment about evacuees from #Yellowknife having problems posting news to their friends and family about the fire because Meta is blocking Canadian news links.

What can we as a co-op do to help?

@timfordwrites hey Tim this is great.

I’ve “unrolled” this thread on the #CoSocialCa public wiki as a test https://members.cosocial.ca/t/news-journalists-in-canada/60

1) Do you mind me showing it like this?

2) As I’ve noted in the comment, we might be able to talk to Spread Mastodon to add a “Canadian News” category https://spreadmastodon.org/follow-suggestions - is this something interesting to pursue?

@vfrunza Welcome to #CoSocialCa ! Enjoy your time with your daughter, the days are long but the years are short.

Question for #coop people : I want to improve the langauge on how #CoSocialCa talk's about member share purchase + annual dues we ask people to pay, do you have any great examples of how #cooperative / #platformcoop have done this?

In a couple of hours (7pm ET/4pm PT) we have our office hours, first topic is tweaks we might need to onboarding and helping members join and feel welcome... see you all soon...and if not in your inbox already...sign up to join here:

https://lu.ma/6n73vv6l

#CoSocialCa

Jamming with @dawn on adding #wiki capability to the #CoSocialCa #Wordpress blog https://cosocial.info so we can use it as our home base and open it up to members to work on together.

Anyone have recommendations on plugins for this?

Use #CoSocialWPWiki if you've got ideas around this!

#CoSocialCa members are welcome to attend! I see a couple of folks have registered already.

Please spread the word to people new to the concepts of open social media and wanting to understand for themselves and their organizations how to get involved and what it means.

Thanks @evan for taking the time to do this!

I’m hosting the first #DWebYVR Community Garden Dinner this evening. We’re going to aim to hold them monthly.

Let us know you’re coming / register for future ones here https://lu.ma/dwebyvr-garden-dinners

5pm - 8pm drop in at East 4th at Scotia in the CoFood Vancouver garden.

Emily, my cohost, will tell us about #CoFoodVancouver and the garden space there.

I’ll talk about #CoSocialCa, the Canadian social media co-op I help run.

Bring your own discussion topics & something to drink & eat.