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# OCF Monthly Community Forum - Feb 2022

## Agenda
**Intro/Check-In**
*[Who are you? Where are you from? What initiative are you with? What brought you to the forum?]*
* Melanie - Communicas Collaborative - First meeting and here to get involved with OCF; currently working on a project with as fellows with NA Assoc. for Environmental Educators to transform lawns to food production spaces
* Sebastian - Proofing Future - Saving intro for presentation spotlight
* Josh - HEKLER - artist run feminist platform looking at hospitality and conflict through archiving, pedagogy, residencies, and in-person/virtual events; excited to meet people and be here
* Bobby Joe - Communications Organizer at OCF - Great chance to meet all of the collectives
* Mike - Program Manager at OCF - Hosts forums and onboards new collectives
* Nathan - Program Manager at OCF - Glad to be here and talk with all of the groups
* Laurie - Open Food Network - One of twenty instances of an open source commons for folks who are supporting local food systems
* Ebony - Cooperative Journal & Artist Fellow OCF - Here to learn more about collectives and offer support for storytelling about your work
* Luc + Jacq - Circle City Mutual Aid - Had a snow day and wanted to connect with others in the community
* Duane - Head of Open Source at Indeed and running Digital Infrastructure Grant collective 
* Hannah - Black Banjo Reclamation Project - cultural arts based self-determination and reparations project; more than banjos which includes education, music, and supporting Black communities culturally; has been able to raise funds through social media; still curious about how to earn a salary from the work with the project and trying to make things more sustainable
* Emily - FLOWLab - Resonates with Hannah about trying to make projects sustainable and raise funds to pay team members; excited to meet other people doing good work
* Sourav - Currently working as community manager and previously worked at Open Mined; excited to learn more about the Foundation side
* Lori - Civic Hacker Network - only attended one previous forum and glad to be here
* Robin - Cooperative Journal & Artist Fellow at OCF - working with Ebony to uplift the radical stories of collectives hosted by OCF
* Ying - individual artist working to support some of the collectives hosted here
* David - Communicas Collective - working on neighbor to neighbor project; moving from great idea to getting some things done; have now settled contract at NAEE and have a meeting w/principal funder; direct work with neighborhood organizations to develop permaculture precincts; also partnering with community organizations by narrative and educational work; learning how to partner effectively with orgs to cultivate shared ownership and participation
* Nia - Artist Fellow OCF and Baltimore Roundtable for Economic Democracy - able to support groups with comms and storytelling
* Joe - Sustainable Progress and Equality - under fiscal sponsorship for going on two years; they are a research and development collective to make the world better; provides mentorship and tech skill development to people from underrepresented communities; interested in collaborating with other collectives to solve problems that they have

**Proofing Future Presentation**

**Review of [new updates](https://opencollective.com/foundation/updates) from OCF**

* Use the awesome Comms team that has formed and post things in the #news channel on Slack

**Agile Check-Ins (What are your blockers?)**

* Lori - Question about opportunity that Open Collective shared about funder who is paying $1800 for stories about workers - advised to follow up directly with funder since we did not have an immediate answer
* Joe - Question about Offers and Needs opportunity in the ecosystem with a lot of discussion in Slack and wants to know how to participate in moving this initiative forward - advised people in the forum to reach out directly
* Mike - Offers and Needs channel did come up within a team; offered to provide some scaffolding to help the convening group come together

**Offers and Needs Market**

* Join Emily Weltman at CoWork for FLOWLab Fridays

**Closing**
