Thoughts on a Tiny Co-op

I'm pretty excited about a conversation with all of the tiny garden members this past week. And I have been thinking a lot about what it would mean to create a co-op style community. I wanted to drop down some thoughts to share them with you here in the hopes that they can create a foundation that was shared with the larger community as we figure out what this next transition looks like for the tiny garden.

Transitioning #

Some thoughts on how we can get from where we are not to where we would love to be:

• Create a collection of tasks
• Craft a message to the existing group about the transaction or migration of the group.
• How do we create start to loop people into even this document.
• Guidelines for entering and leaving the group

Governance #

• How do we select new members
• How do we onboard new members
• Is there a trial period
• How do we distribute groups tasks

Finances #

• How do funds get spent?
• How do we collect and when?
• How do we make funds transpatent? (I feel like this should be a two party system. For example we vote on when funds get spent)

Group Representation #

• How do members want to be represented on the site?
• How can we work as a group on projects?
• How is credit communicated for group project in relation to tiny factories
• What types of information do we want to share publicly and privately?
  • New letter
  • Zine
  • Profiles
  • group chats
  • group working calls
• How can we increase the diversity

A Online Co-op would mean #

• Shared group funds
• Max number of people
• Share brand to leverage
• Community to get support and feedback from
• Voting to make decisions
  • Small decisions can be emoji-reaction voted
  • Big decisions can be through online forms and a few days