<div dir="ltr"><div>Hi folks,</div><div><br></div><div>I thought I'd send an update explaining how the trial's going.</div><div><br></div><div>We've got 7 co-ops as members of our CoTech group on Cobudget:</div><div><br></div><div>* Outlandish</div><div>* Go Free Range</div><div>* Co-operative Web</div><div>* Gilded Splinters</div><div>* Calverts</div><div>* Wave</div><div>* Glowbox Design</div><div><br></div><div>Two of the seven have backed the bar tab proposal and another three have funds in their accounts that are available to be allocated.</div><div><br></div><div>Is anyone else interested in a Cobudget account? Even if you're not planning to fund the bar tab I think you'll probably be able to provide useful feedback about the tool.</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers, Chris</div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 1 February 2017 at 18:22, Brian Spurling <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:brian@outlandish.com" target="_blank">brian@outlandish.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr" class="m_74326295469559976gmail_msg" style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13px">Hi Cooperative Technologists,<br></div><div dir="ltr" class="m_74326295469559976gmail_msg"><div class="m_74326295469559976gmail_msg" style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13px"><br class="m_74326295469559976gmail_msg"></div><div class="m_74326295469559976gmail_msg" style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13px">After the retreat in November a working group was kicked off to explore the concept of CoTech-wide CoBudgeting.</div><div class="m_74326295469559976gmail_msg" style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13px"><br class="m_74326295469559976gmail_msg"></div><div class="m_74326295469559976gmail_msg" style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13px">We are about to attempt a trial run, in which we hope to involve as many coops as possible. We are going to CoBudget a bar tab for the <a href="https://www.loomio.org/d/PvQJqtK2/open-2017-platform-cooperatives" class="m_74326295469559976gmail_msg" target="_blank">CoTech social</a> on the 16th February at<span class="m_74326295469559976inbox-inbox-Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://2017.open.coop/" class="m_74326295469559976gmail_msg" target="_blank">Open:2017</a> 🍾 🍻 ☕</div><div class="m_74326295469559976gmail_msg" style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13px"><br class="m_74326295469559976gmail_msg"></div><div class="m_74326295469559976gmail_msg" style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13px">If you would like to be involved in the trial, read on. If you have no wish to fund a bar tab but still have an interest in the CoBudgeting trial, that's fine - you can just observe, if you wish. </div><div class="m_74326295469559976gmail_msg" style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13px"><br class="m_74326295469559976gmail_msg"></div><div class="m_74326295469559976gmail_msg" style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13px"><i class="m_74326295469559976gmail_msg">But please get involved either way! This will be a useless trial if we don't get lots of feedback out of it.</i></div><div class="m_74326295469559976gmail_msg" style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13px"><br></div><div class="m_74326295469559976gmail_msg" style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13px"><b class="m_74326295469559976gmail_msg"><u class="m_74326295469559976gmail_msg">The plan is as follows:</u></b></div><div class="m_74326295469559976gmail_msg" style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13px"><br class="m_74326295469559976gmail_msg"></div><div class="m_74326295469559976gmail_msg" style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13px">We have created a <i>Cooperative Technologists</i> CoBudget group, here: <a href="http://cobudget.co/#/groups/603" class="m_74326295469559976gmail_msg" target="_blank">cobudget.co/#/groups/603</a><wbr> (log in required)</div><div class="m_74326295469559976gmail_msg" style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13px"><br></div><div class="m_74326295469559976gmail_msg" style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13px">A note on terminology: The CoBudget platform has<span class="m_74326295469559976inbox-inbox-inbox-inbox-inbox-inbox-Apple-converted-space"> </span><i class="m_74326295469559976gmail_msg">groups</i><span class="m_74326295469559976inbox-inbox-inbox-inbox-inbox-inbox-Apple-converted-space"> </span>(Cooperative Technologists), which in turn have<span class="m_74326295469559976inbox-inbox-inbox-inbox-inbox-inbox-Apple-converted-space"> </span><i class="m_74326295469559976gmail_msg">funders</i><span class="m_74326295469559976inbox-inbox-inbox-inbox-inbox-inbox-Apple-converted-space"> </span>(Outlandish, Go Free Range, etc). A funder has<span class="m_74326295469559976inbox-inbox-inbox-inbox-inbox-inbox-Apple-converted-space"> </span><i class="m_74326295469559976gmail_msg">funds<span class="m_74326295469559976inbox-inbox-inbox-inbox-inbox-inbox-Apple-converted-space"> </span></i>(£, even though the icon in the app is $), which they can allocate to<span class="m_74326295469559976inbox-inbox-inbox-inbox-inbox-inbox-Apple-converted-space"> </span><i class="m_74326295469559976gmail_msg">buckets<span class="m_74326295469559976inbox-inbox-inbox-inbox-inbox-inbox-Apple-converted-space"> </span></i>(project pitches). A bucket is first created for "discussion and design", before being opened up for funding.<br></div><div class="m_74326295469559976gmail_msg" style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13px"><br></div><div class="m_74326295469559976gmail_msg" style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13px"><b class="m_74326295469559976gmail_msg">Getting you set up on CoBudget</b></div><div class="m_74326295469559976gmail_msg"><ul class="m_74326295469559976gmail_msg" style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13px"><li class="m_74326295469559976gmail_msg">We are creating <b>one CoBudget account per coop</b>, so the thing to do<span class="m_74326295469559976inbox-inbox-Apple-converted-space"> </span><i class="m_74326295469559976gmail_msg">right now</i>, is email or Slack me or Chris an appropriate email address (e.g.<span class="m_74326295469559976inbox-inbox-Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:team%2Bcobudget@outlandish.com" class="m_74326295469559976gmail_msg" target="_blank">team+cobudget@<wbr>outlandish.com</a>) so we can add you.</li><li class="m_74326295469559976gmail_msg">Log in and change your profile name to the name of your coop.</li><li class="m_74326295469559976gmail_msg">Everybody will start with £0 funds. <br class="m_74326295469559976gmail_msg"></li></ul><div class="m_74326295469559976gmail_msg" style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13px"><b class="m_74326295469559976gmail_msg">Funding the trial bucket</b><br class="m_74326295469559976gmail_msg"></div><ul class="m_74326295469559976gmail_msg" style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13px"><li class="m_74326295469559976gmail_msg">There is one bucket ready-and-waiting for you:<span class="m_74326295469559976inbox-inbox-Apple-converted-space"> </span><i class="m_74326295469559976gmail_msg">TRIAL RUN: fund a bar tab for the CoTech social at Open:2017</i><br class="m_74326295469559976gmail_msg"></li><li class="m_74326295469559976gmail_msg">Because this is a trial run, you won't have any funds. So... </li><ul class="m_74326295469559976gmail_msg"><li class="m_74326295469559976gmail_msg">Post a comment in the bucket's discussion stating how much your coop would like contribute</li><li class="m_74326295469559976gmail_msg">Chris or I will add that amount to your funding pot</li></ul><li class="m_74326295469559976gmail_msg">You can then allocate your funds to the bucket</li></ul><b class="m_74326295469559976gmail_msg" style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13px">When the bucket is fully-funded</b><br class="m_74326295469559976gmail_msg"><ul class="m_74326295469559976gmail_msg" style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13px"><li class="m_74326295469559976gmail_msg">Go Free Range is the project owner, so they will be responsible for collecting the actual money from each coop. </li><li class="m_74326295469559976gmail_msg">They will also be responsible for managing and paying the tab on the night</li></ul><div style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13px"><b>Afterwards</b></div><div><ul><li><font color="#212121">If there's money left over, we can have an interesting chat about what to do in this scenario</font></li><li><font color="#212121">Then we'll gather feedback and lessons-learned, and decide on next steps - probably moving towards a more formal Loomio proposal. </font></li></ul></div><div class="m_74326295469559976gmail_msg" style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13px"><br></div><div class="m_74326295469559976gmail_msg" style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13px">Any questions about any of this, probably easiest to jump on<span class="m_74326295469559976inbox-inbox-Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://tech-coops.slack.com/archives/cobudgeting-wg" class="m_74326295469559976gmail_msg" target="_blank">Slack</a> and ask there.</div><div class="m_74326295469559976gmail_msg" style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13px"><br class="m_74326295469559976gmail_msg"></div><div class="m_74326295469559976gmail_msg" style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13px">Happy CoBudgeting!</div><div class="m_74326295469559976gmail_msg" style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13px">Brian, Chris and the CoBudgeting Working Group</div><div class="m_74326295469559976gmail_msg" style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13px"><br class="m_74326295469559976gmail_msg"></div></div><div class="m_74326295469559976gmail_msg" style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13px">P.S. We've come up with this plan based on a very useful conversation with some CoBudget experts from Enspiral. If you want the backstory, check out the <a href="https://tech-coops.slack.com/archives/cobudgeting-wg" class="m_74326295469559976gmail_msg" target="_blank">Slack channel</a>.</div><div class="m_74326295469559976gmail_msg" style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13px"><br class="m_74326295469559976gmail_msg"></div><div class="m_74326295469559976gmail_msg" style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13px">P.P.S. We hope you will agree, this trial run is fairly low key and not, we think, worthy of a formal proposal. It's more about testing the logistics, hence why we're keeping this out of Loomio. If anybody strongly opposes this trial run, you are welcome to simply not participate (and, please, share your concerns in the <a href="https://tech-coops.slack.com/archives/cobudgeting-wg" class="m_74326295469559976gmail_msg" target="_blank">Slack channel</a> so we can incorporate them into the eventual proposal).<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br class="m_74326295469559976gmail_msg"></font></span></div></div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div dir="ltr" class="m_74326295469559976gmail_msg" style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13px"><div class="m_74326295469559976gmail_msg"><br class="m_74326295469559976inbox-inbox-Apple-interchange-newline"></div></div></font></span></div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div dir="ltr">-- <br></div><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:normal;font-size:small"><div style="font-size:12.8px">Brian Spurling</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Outlandish</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="color:rgb(136,136,136);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">We are hiring: </span><a href="http://www.outlandish.com/blog/job-opportunity-senior-developer-for-complex-data-project/" class="m_74326295469559976gmail_msg" style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px" target="_blank">http://www.outlandish.<wbr>com/blog/job-opportunity-<wbr>senior-developer-for-complex-<wbr>data-project/</a><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:normal;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 class="m_74326295469559976inbox-inbox-inbox-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span><a href="mailto:brian@outlandish.com" target="_blank">brian@<wbr>outlandish.com</a> </font><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">| <a href="tel:020%207561%209968" value="+442075619968" target="_blank">02075619968</a> </span><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">| <a href="tel:07706%20997049" value="+447706997049" target="_blank">07706997049</a></span></div><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;line-height:normal"><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>
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