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