On Fri, Feb 12, 2016 at 02:12:59PM -0800, Aaron Wolf wrote: > On 02/12/2016 02:00 PM, Bryan Richter wrote: > > > > Hmm, yeah, maybe co-op/money/website are a lot more interdependent > > than I was thinking. That makes me wonder — what is the plan for > > co-op and money? If they are going to impact site development, and > > be impacted by it, we need a holistic roadmap. I looked around at > > the Next and Strategy wiki pages and didn't find any mention of a > > plan. I'm pretty sure there *is* a plan (part of which is drafting > > bylaws..?). > > > > We need the Bylaws first and foremost, and there's work I need to do > (partly since Jon, who had done some, hasn't been active lately).
I think it would be good to list these tasks, whatever they may be, in OpenProject. Regarding the tech roadmap, I have some more questions about the relationships between co-op requirements and website requirements. These questions may be rather pedantic, but my hope is to have a ridiculously clear set of priorities. > > Will there be requirements put on the website to achieve any of that > > vision (non-profit, cooperative, both)? > > The website in terms of the projects we support will need to follow the > legally stated mission. So: does the website need to follow the mission before incorporation, or can it follow afterwards as a work-in-progress? If the former, does that mean we must be funding other projects before we can incorporate? (I highly doubt it, but like I said, I want the relationships to be stunningly clear.) > Otherwise, we will need to have infrastructure one way or the other > for managing the board meetings and membership contracts etc. i.e. > the basic operations of running a co-op. > > ... > On the tech infrastructure side, we need to have the systems that > recognize co-op members in terms of board elections and other voting. Again: is this infrastructure a hard requirement for our website before incorporation, or is it something we can fulfill by other means first? I am trying to determine what, exactly, the MVP is. If we can be a co-op without these features in our website, then it would not be 'minimal' to have them. If we can AVOID having these features until later, that would give a lot more flexibility to the tech roadmap, and allow us to hit the milestone of funding ourselves (!!) a lot sooner.
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