# Running list of sessions

> Updated: 05sep2021

There are more than twelve sessions below. It seemed appropriate to expand the running list a little, to enable more member organisations to bring a focus. Three phases. Some sessions held in dual language?

For a shorter listing, without comments and notes, see [Summary running list](https://meet-coop-1.gitbook.io/handbook-trial/5-commons.hour/commons.hour-programme/summary-running-list)

![Running list of sessions - outline : Sept 2021](https://781026599-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-legacy-files/o/assets%2F-MbjRiwwKa0TXyi4B5WE%2F-MiqagFyhHWxoDSPc_Jh%2F-Mir3hHzWGfXB0phv5gc%2Frunning%20list.jpg?alt=media\&token=4cb34702-cd44-417f-933d-b41f53e45533)

> The paras below, formatted like this one, indicate which area of the handbook we have in our sights for this session.

#### Phase 1 - Intro

#### **Session #1- Sept 2021 - Intro**

**Wouter Tebbens, Mike Hales** @ meet.coop Community circle - Intro to `commons.hour`: intentions of `commons.hour`, rationale for the running list of topics, the methodology for designing a weave of contributions thro protocols and a handbook.

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#### Phase 2 - Opening the frame(s)

#### **Session #2 - Oct 2021**

**Ela Kagel** @ Supermarkt, Berlin - Community development and geography, the community of a trans-region digital infrastructure? Learning to behave in digital space.

> `Intersectional community` - **Community development** in a *trans-region* digital-mediated landscape: ‘infrastructuring’ as community development

#### **Session #3 - Nov 2021**

**Natalie Brenner, Jaime Villareal** @ May First Movement Technology, USA/Mexico: Autonomous movement organisations and governance, in the MayFirst platform of tools and movement education.

> `Assemblies and deliberations` - Operating with a membership comprising **autonomous movement organisations**. Working with a machinery (or ecology) of boards, annual assemblies, elections, priorities; paid and unpaid contributions.

December 2021 - No session this month.

#### **Session #4 - Jan 2022**

**Monica Garriga/David Jacovkis/David Gomez** @ femProcomuns, Barcelona: developing and maintaining a digital commons. the difference it makes, to approach a coop as building a commons?

> `Political economy` - **Provisioning** the stack of digital commons: evolving and tuning the toolstack and how it runs, maintaining it, paying a fair wage for the labour involved.
>
> * *Hold this in dual language?*
> * *Invite Remix to comment here, in advance of their later session #8?*

#### **Session #5 - Feb 2022**

**Graham Mitchell** @ Platform6, Webarchitects, Yorkshire: governance in coops, specifically multistakeholder. Being realistic about work contributions from unpaid members (unpaid executive membership of Boards?) but not collapsing into a de-facto provider-led worker coop, or passive consumer coop.

> `Assemblies and deliberations` - **Coop governance** - in workers’ coops, consumer coops. Working with a machinery of executive vs non-executive board members, users and workers, elections and sociocratic circles.
>
> * *Comment invited from Francesca Pick @ GreaterThan/OuiShare/Enspiral*

#### **Session #6 - Mar 2022**

**TBC** - ¿Silvia/Stacco? @ Guerrilla Translations/DisCO project - or perhaps ¿Lynn? @ Mikorizal/ValueFlows: contribution accounting in practice, including kinds of contributors, types of work, forms of recognition (including credits), tools for accounting and valueing.

> `Political economy` - **Contribution accounting** and recognition of different kinds of contributions; including **livelihood** of operational members.
>
> * *Invite Nathan Schneider to comment, in advance of their later session #10?*

#### **Session #7 - Apr 2022**

**Cade Diehm/Ben Royer** @ New Design Congress: ‘Society as user’, design justice as a practice in cultivating a stack of digital commons.

> `Intersectional community` - **Solidarity as collaborating and federating**: how to achieve *mutuality across movements* in our making and mobilising of venue-, media- and platform-spaces
>
> * *Invite Trinh @ commUNITY, Georgia @ SimSec, Stefi @ Moving Sports to comment here? Might this convergence of perceived concerns be white-male tokenist?*

#### **Session #8 - May 2022**

**Sophie Bloemen** @ Commons.network/European municipalist network: Organising in a frame of municipalism and doughnut economics, multi-region/multi-language: tools for conviviality, platforms and digital infrastructure. And the governance of these - commoning, not just coops.

> `Assemblies and deliberations` - **Distributed peer-to-peer organising**; deliberation (in threads), text chat. Working in a flat organisation: work-circle (sociocratic?) organisation, project organisation, campaign organisation.
>
> * *Hold this in dual language?*

#### **Session #9 - Jun 2022**

**Fred Sultan, Yves Otis** @ Remix the Commons: cross-language and cross-region challenges and shared learning spaces.

> `Intersectional community` - **Silos**: why we find ourselves in silos, how to organise *‘beyond fragments’* and uneven development
>
> * *Hold this in dual language?*

#### **Session #10 - Jul 2022**

**Nathan Schneider** @ Media Enterprise Design Lab, U Boulder Colorado /*Everything for Everyone*: a ‘provocation’ on multistakeholder governance, rationale for federation rather than internal complexity.

> `Political economy` - **Collaborating**, flat organising & norms in the world of P2P free-libre culture. Benevolent dictatorship, unlimited individualism, ‘autonomism’? The power of protocols & limits of ‘trust’. Differences in a commons, between free-libre freedom and sanctioned participation.

No session in August.

#### **Session #11 - Sept 2022**

**Jason Nardi** @ RIPESS: Organising and steering for solidarity economy across flat organisations, within and across regions.

> `Assemblies and deliberations` - Peer-to-peer organising; deliberation (in threads) and text chat. Flat organisations: work-circle (sociocratic?) organisation, project organisation, campaign organisation. Benevolent dictatorship, in the world of P2P, endless forking - even, sectarianism? Falling back on libertarian individualism?
>
> * *Jason: Invite local solidarity economy organisations to contribute? NYC? Jackson? Francophone north-south? Etc etc.*
> * *Invite contribution by MayFirst? GEO?*
> * *Hold this in dual language?*

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#### Phase 3 - Drawing together protocols into practice

#### **Session #12 - Oct 2022**

**meet.coop Community circle** - Firming-up on protocols, assembling and implementing a `handbook` - GENSET.

*Any chance of involving Cilla Ross in this, ex-Vice Principal, Coop University, UK? As governance of a commons of movement capability, aka a distributed college*

#### **Session #13 - Nov 2022**

**meet.coop Community circle** - Distilling protocols and principles into a `Constitution`. Including `Political economy` - User members’ and operational members’ privileges and **limitations** (aka Code of conduct); obligations and **sanctions** (including moderation, exclusion, credit or status penalties, whatever).

*Contribution from Emi Do, Matt Noyes @ social.coop invited here.*

#### **Session #14 - Dec 2022**

**meet.coop Community circle** - `General assembly`, preparations for the inaugural assembly. Relationship with **Standing assembly** of operational members (aka All-hands) and `commons.hour` (aka standing assembly of user- and operational-members). A **Council** (comprising the speakers of operational Circles?) as standing proxy for the General assembly?

*Recruit user members to Community circle - although this should have been ongoing.*

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**Additional session - To be scheduled?**

**Tor project** - xxx

> `Political economy` - **Members’ privileges** and limitations in the digital commons of meet.coop; obligations and sanctions. User members; operational members. Safety, privacy, defence of meet.coop spaces.

### Basic links

**Please do register** if you hope to participate in a session. A head count helps us plan for facilitation. 

* Sign-up for all sessions is in **Sign-up** posts, in the [Discourse forum](https://forum.meet.coop/c/community/commonshour/26)

**Documentation** on `commons.hour`

* `commons.hour` [landing page](https://meet-coop-1.gitbook.io/handbook-trial/4-assemblies-and-deliberations/assemblies-and-deliberations/commons.hour) in the handbook