Notices by CoSocial Community Cooperative (coop@cosocial.ca)

@etienneff Welcome to #CoSocialCA! Time to fill in your profile, pin an #introduction post, and talk with the world…

This Thursday Nov 28 come join our November #CoSocialCa Assembly: https://lu.ma/mmznqvah

We're trying something new with our regular operations calls ... this is a space for announcements, working groups to get feedback on projects and tasks, and for group discussion and questions.

All members are encouraged to attend!

A group of cooperatives have created a Manifesto to create Cooperative Digital Infrastructure and are asking fellow coops, individuals and other organizations to endorse five calls to present to the ICA, or International Coop Alliance: https://datacommons.coop/cooperative-digital-infrastructure-manifesto/

The board is seeking input before endorsing it, you can share comments on this thread or our members discourse: https://members.cosocial.ca/t/endorsement-of-the-draft-cooperative-digital-infrastructure-manifesto-time-sensitive-in-november/358

#CoSocialCa will be doing an election disinformation crisis simulation tonight at 5PM PT/8PM ET/9:30PM in Newfoundland.

We'll play through a scenario of election disinformation for CoSocial. People from different roles as CoSocial will role-play as board members, trust and safety team, tech ops, and other members.

All members are encouraged to attend and participate. Observers welcome, too.

Our membership and trust and safety team, with the patient leadership of @aeisenberg , have developed a new code of conduct for CoSocial.ca.

The Board has asked all members to review the document at https://drive.google.com/file/d/1m2aY9PF8EJLbK-sIUkrOnuF0jPI99DOV/view?usp=drive_link and share comments in this thread or on
https://members.cosocial.ca/t/code-of-conduct/124/42 .

If enough responses are positive, the Board will approve this as the organization's new code of conduct at its next meeting in mid-May.

We're celebrating 1 year of #CoSocialCa !

Perhaps less exciting, this means that services billing will renew soon.

We use Open Collective, which doesn't send notification ahead of renewing, so we wrote up a post https://members.cosocial.ca/t/annual-renewal-of-cosocial-membership-with-open-collective/257

#CoSocial welcomes our newest member @rhea Rhea Myers!

A reminder that the members forum has a lot of discussion in members-only areas.

But! You don't need a new account. You can use your #CoSocialCa Mastodon account to sign up and login.

Here's a write up on how this works https://members.cosocial.ca/t/login-and-sign-up-to-the-cosocial-members-forum/237

#CoSocialPixelfed is coming!

@gov and the TechOps team have been getting it more production ready.

Watch for a working group kick off announcement, will be looking for more volunteers for early testing and documentation

#CoSocialCastopod is also coming.

Inspired by meeting with #SocialCoop's @Matt_Noyes, going to run this as an "open working group" for anyone in the fediverse that wants to learn about @Castopod podcasting app

Watch for that announcement soon, too :)

The #CoSocialCa Board and Core meeting yesterday is looking to move more of what we work on to be available to members.

Check the notes in the members forum https://members.cosocial.ca/t/jan-16th-2024-core-meeting/234

The Trust & Safety Handbook is now also in the forum rather than a GDoc https://members.cosocial.ca/t/cosocial-trust-and-safety-handbook/235

This should make it easier to for all members to review and participate

More work to be done on splitting it out into sections, adding more resources for onboarding, etc.

Welcome new member @denton - our first licensed private investigator member at #CoSocial !

#CoSocial reminder! We have a #Montreal member meetup at La Chope Angus tonight (9 Jan 2024) at 7PM. https://www.lachopeangus.com/ Please RSVP with @evan . No storm can stop us!

Are you a #CoSocial member in #Montreal? Join us for a members meetup on January 9 2024 at 7PM at La Chope Angus, a coop brew pub, https://www.lachopeangus.com/ . Please RSVP with @evan to let us know you're coming.

This has been an amazing process to go through with @alinemonjardim guiding #CoSocialLogoDesign

“I’d like to share my “expert” opinion on some of the comments posted. My hope is to share and clarify design choices to everyone, so you can make a more informed decision on the final logo design.”

Please read Aline’s full comments and recommendation on the members portal https://members.cosocial.ca/t/cosocial-logo-design/196/33

Her recommendation is the #3 logo that won the last poll, which we’ll go with absent final feedback.

We've got a final round of tweaks today in our chosen direction for #CoSocialLogoDesign

Here are three options for the logo, please use the poll in the reply, as well as open feedback in a comment

https://members.cosocial.ca/t/cosocial-logo-design/196/26

Moodboard 1: Patriotic, figurative, and classic. Built on Canadian nostalgia with a modern twist, this concept aims to rescue what unifies Canadians by celebrating its national symbols.

#CoSocialLogoDesign

Moodboard 2: Democratic, representative, and new. Built on a sense of collaborative effort, this concept is a less obvious approach to connecting the people of Canada through collective movement.

#CoSocialLogoDesign

Thanks @alinemonjardim for the concept review call on Friday.

Aline has posted two potential directions of moodboards given the input so far.

Please read & review in the members forum -- written feedback and blink reactions welcome https://members.cosocial.ca/t/cosocial-logo-design/196/11

The reply to this post has a quick poll that you can vote on.

#CoSocialLogoDesign