Assemblies and deliberations

Here we describe the architecture of venues in which the work of stewarding & provisioning in meet.coop is done: assemblies & reviews, deliberations & choices, design practices & cultural exchanges.

Updated: 19jul2021

This topic is incomplete, to be extended xxx

Assemblies - face-to-face venues for meet.coop stewarding - are:

• Circles, under broadly sociocratic principles - operational members

• Standing assembly (all-hands) - operational members

• commons.hour - operational members, user members

• General assembly - operational members, user members, Circles

• Board of stewards - proxy for General assembly, between assemblies; effectively a Circle of nominated spokespeople for each Circle, operating on behalf of the multistakeholder General Assembly. Convenes the General Assembly

• etc?

Media spaces for deliberation within meet.coop stewarding are:

• The forum - specific nominated categories/threads in the forum? A decisions & polls thread/category?

• Polls (?)

• etc?

Protocols for assemblies and deliberations:

• Protocols - Time

• Protocols - Multiple languages

• Protocols - Facilitation & moderation