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Resolution 024: Budget: 013: Reintroduce kite-flying

  • Topic: Reintroduce paid kite-flying hour
  • Date: 2024-10-30
  • Deadline: 2024-11-13
  • Size: Large

Summary

Allocate up to €2000 to paying attendees for their presence at weekly "kite-flying hours".

Details

During the phase of ECF-funded work, Co-op Cloud had "kite-flying hours", an informal weekly call. We stopped doing these at the end of the ECF funding. Currently, our only chance for synchronous check-in with other folks in the Co-op Cloud Community is monthly federation meetings which, as well as only being open to members of the federation, are also proving difficult to organise.

This resolution proposes reintroducing kite-flying hours, initially with a rotating slot that alternates between 12 UTC and 19 UTC on Thursdays in order to accommodate folks in different timezones.

This schedule can be changed as necessary via a Medium decision.

Attendance of kite-flying hours is paid at the standard €20/h rate.

This budget is expected to last around 4.5 months, assuming up to 5 weekly paid attendees at kite-flying sessions.

Time during kite-flying sessions can be spent on anything useful to the Co-op Cloud Federation; some examples could be:

  • Co-working, e.g.:
  • abra development
  • recipe maintenance
  • documentation
  • funding applications
  • writing resolutions
  • developing posts for social media, or the website blog
  • federation admin (membership, finance)
  • infrastructure maintenance
  • Welcoming new members of the co-op cloud community
  • Supporting community members with technical issues
  • Holding informal discussions / polls about any aspect of co-op cloud

Budget 013: Kite-flying 2024-2025

Budget amount: EUR 2000

Who will implement this: 3wordchant

When will the money be spent: Until the budget is exhausted; expected to be around the end of March 2025

What is the money for: Paying attendees of weekly "kite-flying" sessions

Questions

3wc: Should this be open to anyone in the community, or just federation members? If it's completely open, are there are any expectations / criteria, or could someone literally get paid to come listen in every week? KP: I think we just monitor that and if there's any problematic behaviour, we may need to change course.