Circle Call 2026-05-27

Present: Chris C, Natasha N, Richard R

Agenda

Coops Congress [Richard]

Richard had a call with Amy and Vica, a bit unproductive. Agile are going to host a talk at Congress with someone from Coops UK. From a CoTech point of view, just say talk to CoTech.

CoTech Conference [Natasha]

If noone submits a proposal, is it worth pursuing

[Richard] Not all together surprised, funny that we were worried about too many proposals. We need to coordinate. We should just design a programme and ask people to speak. The bigger challenge is going to get people to come. So we need to get moving on it. Dont worry too much about the format, just get some topics and titles, get a webpage up.

[Natasha] I'm a bit out of steam. Should we just organise an internal CoTech thing?

[Chris] get some external speakers (Asterisk, Dan McQuillan), get some people doing interesting things with AI.

[natasha] design an event thats interesting for CoTech and have it open to other people

[Richard] Ethical AI angle

Worker coop weekend [Chris]

Chris is going. There are member planning meetings that I've been going to. Chris is bringing Karaoke gear.

Email inbox [Natasha]

Chris replying to Henning's email about german, belgian, french tech coop collaboration.