<div dir="ltr">Hey everyone<div><br></div><div>I'm in touch on behalf of CoTech, the tech co-op network formerly known as the Megazord. Either you were invited and couldn't make it, or we think you should know about it, so please have a read below. If you've already been updated, give it a little skim just in case. </div><div><br></div><div>The best indication of what happened over the course of the three and a bit days is the <a href="https://wiki.coops.tech/wiki/Main_Page" target="_blank">Wiki</a>. This includes:</div><div><ul><ul><li>A breakdown of which tech co-ops were there. This isn't everyone, there were also a few people who came with the intention of converting the organisations that they're involved with to co-ops in the near future/ they are related to the worker co-op movement in some way.</li><li>A list of the sessions that ran from Tuesday to Thursday morning. Monday is missing because we had facilitation training delivered by the brilliant Becks and Rhiannon from <a href="http://www.seedsforchange.org.uk" target="_blank">Seeds for Change</a> co-op, they come highly recommended. The training was very effective and useful for the following days. </li><li>Don't forget to have a look at the <a href="https://www.loomio.org/g/oVwtKDOn/digital-co-ops" target="_blank">Loomio</a> group- all threads are public, as well as the blogs written by <a href="http://outlandish.com/blog/the-cooperative-technologists-have-landed/" target="_blank">Ellie</a>, <a href="https://medium.com/weareopencoop/a-spectre-is-haunting-tech-the-spectre-of-co-operation-dbabbaabda1e#.g0j2b660o" target="_blank">John</a> and <a href="https://agile.coop/blog/co-operative-technologists-aka-megazord-first-conference" target="_blank">Tanc</a>. </li></ul></ul><ul><li><a href="http://www.wortleyhall.org.uk/" target="_blank">Wortley Hall</a> was a brilliant venue, you might well describe it as 'dreamy'. If you ever need a venue that combines co-operative history with lots of space, brilliant staff and wood carved panpipes in one of the meeting rooms, this is your spot. <br></li><li>Outlandish and Glowbox are currently collaborating on a map of the Megazord which will be ready to launch soon. If you couldn't make it to the Sheffield retreat, you will be able look up someone who co-ops nearby and arrange a catch up. If you don't want to wait, you can have a look at the list of who was there on the Wiki and get in touch.</li><li>We think this will be the first of many annual events but didn't want to wait that long to catch up with people so we agreed that in order to support our fellow co-operators and keep up to date with what's going, we'll make an effort to attend events nearby. Check out the calendar listed on the front page of the Wiki and if you're a co-op, add anything that you're organising to it. </li></ul>If you don't want to receive any more news on CoTech, please reply to all and I'll find somewhere to record it. I hope you really want to get involved though, this network has already proved to be really engaged and will only fulfill its potential if there is widespread participation. <br><div><br></div><div>Many thanks and I hope you're all well. And please also feel free to click on that link below my name where it says we're on the look out for more devs :D </div><div><br></div><div><div class="m_-1507289743608308471gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size:small"><font color="#666666" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:20px">Kayleigh</span></font></div><div style="font-size:small"><font color="#666666" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:20px"><a href="http://www.outlandish.com/blog/job-opportunity-senior-developer-for-complex-data-project/" target="_blank"><br></a></span></font></div><div style="font-size:small"><a href="http://www.outlandish.com/blog/job-opportunity-senior-developer-for-complex-data-project/" target="_blank">Our amazing co-op is on the look out for talented developers. </a></div><div style="font-size:small"><br></div><div style="font-size:small"><font color="#666666" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:20px"><span style="line-height:normal"><a href="http://outlandish.com/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">http://outlandish.com</a> | </span></span><a href="mailto:kayleigh@outlandish.com" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">kaylei<wbr>gh@outlandish.com</a> </font><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">| 02075619968 </span><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">| 07949241684</span></div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><div style="font-size:small"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#666666">3rd Floor, 149 Fonthill Road, Finsbury Park, N4 3HF</font></div></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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