I will mainly be chat-forward and off-cam myself, so I'll use chat for intro -- I'm involved with ReVis as a draft author and continue to help the Network Team with development around Revis subjects. So excited to get more conversation on this topic in particular!

Also so glad you could make it today Rebecca!

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Thanks! I’m glad it fit in my schedule! Excited to help however I can!

https://www.hackforla.org/communities-of-practice

Tim, Annie, & Yeti are remaining for intros I believe

I also need to be off camera & mostly chat. Captain of Code for San Jose. We’re interested in participating in a communities of practice in our brigade & broadly.

Well played on the usage of “run”, Tim.

xD

Sharing link to slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1J6dJcw_XmeluuZztrXgckzBrtYK2MWMUpcwAGUOsgG8/edit?usp=sharing

I wont be able to stay the whole time, have a pre existing. not personal. I'll watch the recording when its published

I love CoPractice! I've also been shortening it to CoPrax for CoPraxis

ooh

Praxis has a medical meaning too

It isn’t a disease though so it’s OK

Just took a quick google glance at that and appreciate its medical meaning relevant to the civic/social use

Word Nerd Powers activated

Time check - we have two minutes left for this section according to the agenda

No questions, just appreciation for the specificity!

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FYI, this is the exact model that the United Way requires funding requests to be documented (industry standard!)

Love the Wenger & Snyder article -- the way it describes the realities of CoPractice creation and cultivation is very relevant to what I saw from ReVis feedback that led to CoPrax becoming a formal proposed piece of it

https://easyretro.io/publicboard/UfXpTpIVLtQqofu1vjUGDlYRZM33/1293c744-93b5-43c2-92c7-7ba6b0dd63d8

Timecheck question, Jennifer, are we aiming to be at “build consensus, discuss conflicting ideas” at :45 after the hour?

If possible!

Got it! Thank you!

Is stronger healthier brigades possibly an impact rather than an outcome?

Hi Mary!

Could make the case for that @ben!

Hi There!!

Welcome Mary!

Thank you!

Mary, here is the easy retro: https://easyretro.io/publicboard/UfXpTpIVLtQqofu1vjUGDlYRZM33/1293c744-93b5-43c2-92c7-7ba6b0dd63d8

And here are the slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1J6dJcw_XmeluuZztrXgckzBrtYK2MWMUpcwAGUOsgG8/edit#slide=id.g1010d440bb7_0_49

Appreciate it!

this is a LOT of good stuff!

I suggested the policy impact example

4 minutes to building consensus section!

Causal path for the example shared (policy)

I see a path from 'political savvy' to start

Policymakers are recruited to CoPractices

They Apply what they learn in policies proposed

then "organizing to speak conferences"

Will do

I think that's relevant to how they combine with Brigade needs and National Action Teams

I super duper appreciate the EasyRetro process for this

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I think it's important to understand that a *CfA* defined CoPractice is always national in scope?

I would bring up the skill building for the purpose of jobs in govt / civic tech as a question

My search for consensus on that (always national in scope) arises from thinking otherwise it risks dilution/ competition with regional CoPractices that form like that for Hack for LA

Comment?

In this case, “like” means we want to flag it rather than that we agree with it?

No prob! Let me know if I miss merged

I think the impact column is the one that I’m wondering about the most overall

Sorry in the same room :D

I commented it on the community guidelines card just to put it somewhere on the board

Who do we want to decide this?

Maybe it would make more sense to start on the right, agree there, then work back…

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If it feels like a good opportunity, we could devote more time to this in 2 weeks

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+1

Absolutely!

Are there any questions that staff can answer or address between now and the next spokes meeting that would support our next meeting?

Another possible question to consider is what would Brigades/Peers want to see from the COP and how would they go about creating and/or participating.

I want to put up a functional limit that exists: there is just one FTE role being developed for a CoPractice, so only 1 formal CoPractice can begin with full CfA support. There's room to conceive of CoPractices existing informally -- one could argue they do already. I don't see anything on the board that contributes to that part of the decisions we need to make as a team.

I worry about getting too specific in the middle, and describing detail that ultimately doesn’t allow for the improvisation needed to actually get to the long term goals…

I may not see it because there's a lot and I haven't read every card!

So our consensus needs to be developed for which CoPractice we start with and then how *that* CoPractice should exist, which may not be the same as deciding how any kind of CoPractice exists next.

Good point.

Consideration to study and delve into the more organic associations and grouping currently within our network that resemble COP of practice. Perhaps the application of the logic model could be tested out in iterative steps to tie how this could support implementation in 2022 and beyond.

Confirming that point… that is how we are thinking about it

Resourcing constraints are key to guide our convos

We could create new groups or we could support existing communities of interest and practices.

I would think this would be more than a one person responsibility.

Time check: we are at time!

To that I didn't vocalize but did write that we must understand that CoPractices inherently exist informally -- which is why I wanted to talk about it 'informal/formal' terms

@hashim your starship has had some NARROW asteroid collision misses during this meeting

lool tim

Do we know how CFA staff is expecting to distribute their time across the revisioning verticals?

Tim hahahaha

To understand % full time support we will have?

@Tim - Obviously Hashim has a strong deflection field in place!

Thank you all so much!! Jennifer, this was amaazing

Wonderful workshop, Jennifer!!!

Thank you!!!!

To the pub!

Huzzah!

See ya there Janet

Thanks for facilitating!