Co-op Credentials Community Call 1

[angus]

If you’re interested in coming, please RSVP below. Click the zoom link when you’re ready to join on the day.

Agenda

1. Welcome and introductions (10 minutes)

2. Overview of the coopcreds project (10 minutes)

• Why it exists and what problems we’re trying to address
• Where we’re currently at with the project
• Who are we (organisation?)
• What we are planning for the next few months (short term)
• What we are planning for next year (medium term)

3. The opportunities to participate (15 minutes)

Development track

• answer the survey
• Join the Credentials Community Sub-group
• help us determine the infrastructure providers
• help us write the implementation documentation

Business track

• answer the survey
• present use cases and business models
• sign up for the trial

Research track

• answer the survey
• help us refine the survey
• help us analyse the data from the survey
• help us develop ecosystem models

4. Questions and Answers: 20 minutes

[peter]

Really great call! Hope we can widen the circle for the next round and do some outreach to the US, specifically Cooperation Jackson and maybe Evergreen in Cleveland.

[angus]

@peter @equalmatt @Thom @Nick_M @DavidRandall @talenus Thanks for coming to our community call at such short notice. We’ll be having another in mid January, which I’ll be scheduling later in the week, so keep an eye out for an invite.

Thanks to those who’ve already filled out the survey. If you haven’t yet, you can find it here

https://community.coopcreds.com/w/stakeholder-welcome

@Thom has already continued the conversation from our call

Ethical music touring and tourism

Very Cool. We would partner on this. Its kind of a fora de exio model? Homestay minigigs seems one angle, Coop-festival another. Like the ‘stay with your fave indie musician’ thing is real and scalable, and musicians are great…‘cultural ambassadors’? What I’m really thinking though is distributed festivals - maybe more simultaneous/concurrent than just a music trail? Then ‘walled garden’ the festival, Shares not Tickets. People are used to ‘different rules apply’ in Festivals, like airports,…

Giving discounts on the basis of organisational status

OK this sounds like an audit layer or function is required - like this is kind of an ESG-type proposition, with tiering dependent on how ‘coopy’ an entity is? Or how ethical it is, according to a common criteria - like reinvestment rates, degree of participatory governance, all that jazz… Examples: there are Coops stricto sensu, incorporated using local Coop law, then in this country many people choose non-co-op entities with internal Coop governance due to Coops being legally disadvantaged. It…

Hope you all have a good holiday period and hope to see you again in Jan.

[angus]

@peter @equalmatt @Thom @Nick_M @DavidRandall @talenus @richjensen Happy new year everyone

In order to accomodate as many people’s schedules as possible, we’re going to be holding our next community call on 2022-02-03T14:00:00Z. There was an event in this topic for this friday, but that was too early in the year for some potential attendees.

More details and RSVP here. Hope to see you there!

Co-op Credentials Community Call 2: Use Cases

Our next community call will be on 2022-02-03T14:00:00Z (UTC). We’ll be focusing on Use Cases, and will be looking to settle on the use case for our upcoming trial of Cooperative Credentials, which we’re looking to do in March - May of 2022. Please save the date and RSVP above if you can make it. A more detailed agenda, with a list of potential use cases will follow.