2025-12-11 Spokescouncil Meeting Update

Current focus is finalizing the infrastructure that will help:
visibilize and distribute admin labor
ease onboarding into admin roles / tasks
make Tech / Comms role sustainable
support WGs in the same way
Tasks Completed
Deployed beta version of our new digital infrastructure
open call for user testers from admin commitees (and WGs too).
calendar on https://ridgewoodcommons.nyc/ now generated from google sheet.
Tasks in Progress
https://coopcloud.tech/ adopting their tools and building a relationship with their community
a community of values-aligned open-source developers and tech-cooperatives
our technical labor becomes a contribution to a free and open-source commons
in early talks of planning a workshop using Ridgewood Commons as a case study
"come see what we did, learn how we did it, and learn how to help us do it"
Working w sunday dinner increase onboarding opportunities with dinner announcements configuration
Initial conversations with working groups about public-facing onboarding materials
Future Tasks
Somebody has to send out a newsletter (124 pending subscribers).
Have a meeting
Onboard new members to admin committee
Clarify purpose of the inter-working-group chats: "how do I make an internal announcement?"
Set up distributed encrypted backups with other community spaces around the country
Task Pitches
help write an inagural newsletter?
user testing on our infrastructure
figure out an organized way to handle IG DMs
research https://garagehq.deuxfleurs.fr/
Pain Point
Our charter is far broader than our capacity allows
No-one is doing the important work of improving our internal communication
Other