Initiatives are mission-oriented projects that are executed by a self-organising team of 2-4 Hypha members who have the skills and tools to design, build, gather feedback or test, and finalize/release on the project.
Below we have the list of active initiatives as of 2023 Q2. Detailed information about our client projects is in our initiatives database 🔒.
Responsible for facilitating the monthly All-Hands meeting series where we share monthly updates on client projects, internal working groups, and discuss co-op business.
✅ Tasks: GitHub board > all-hands label
Supports the social connections and team bonding within the co-op by hosting social events.
✅ Tasks: GitHub board > community-cultivating label
Support cooperative ecosystem developments.
✅ Tasks: GitHub board > coop-dev label
Responsible for monitoring and maintaining infrastructure stored in our data centre, and responding to infrastructure emergencies.
✅ Tasks: GitHub board > data-centre label
Responsible for maintaining our reading/writing practice and publishing posts to our Dripline blog.
✅ Tasks: GitHub board > dripline label
Facilitates the sharing of engineering knowledge across client projects to upskill engineers and define Hypha's engineering values.
✅ Tasks: GitHub board > engineering-culture label
Holds primary responsibility for maintaining our internal handbook at handbook.hypha.coop (e.g., Noticing and fixing broken links, calling for adjustments to out-of-date material).
✅ Tasks: GitHub board > handbook label
📋 Repo: handbook-repo
Facilitates the external meeting series in which we meet with new organizations or companies. First point of contact for new contacts looking to get in touch with Hypha.
✅ Tasks: GitHub board > hello-hypha label
Organizes regular meetings with domain experts to share problems and stimulate creative thinking on various issues. Each person brings a problem statement + resource list + desired output for their problem and the circle briefly discusses and checks in each session.
✅ Tasks: GitHub board > innovation-circle label
Develops and maintains our Matrix chatbot.
✅ Tasks: GitHub board > roo-dev label
📋 Repo: roo-repo
Responsible for providing subject matter expertise on a particular topic.
✅ Tasks: GitHub board > subject-matter-support label
Maintains the content in our public-facing website at hypha.coop.
✅ Tasks: GitHub board > website label
📋 Repo: hypha-coop-repo
Contains core business activities for sustaining Hypha's virtual office.
Responsibilities: Stewarding the financial sustainability of the organization, ensuring that a clear picture of the organization’s financial status is available.
Tasks: Establishing accounting practices, maintaining financial accounts, processing invoices, expenses, and payroll, and creating reports on our financial statements and tax obligations.
👪 Squad Members: Dante (lead), Andi, Cameron, Yurko
✅ Tasks: GitHub board > finance label
Responsibilities: Managing technical infrastructure and providing technical support for our organization’s internal tools and services.
Tasks: Maintaining servers, configuring tools such as Google Workspace and Slack.
👪 Squad Members: Elon (lead), Mauve, Yurko
✅ Tasks: GitHub board > infrastructure label
Responsibilities: Managing and overseeing day-to-day operational activities and processes, creating and refining org-wide policies and processes.
Tasks: Creating, reviewing, signing contracts; creating and documenting workplace policies; planning and executing org-wide events such as our Annual Retreat, AGM, and other internal-focused meetings such as All-Hands; supporting practice areas in operational tasks such as hiring.
👪 Squad Members: Violet (lead), Lexa, Mauve
✅ Tasks: GitHub board > operations label
Responsibilities: Defining the organization’s overall strategy and approach to business.
Tasks: Identifying and seeking out new opportunities for business growth and development.
👪 Squad Members: Ben (lead), Andi, Cameron, Mauve, Udit
✅ Tasks: GitHub board > strategy label and opportunities label
Responsibilities: Responsible for the organization's corporate governance, including records and bylaws.
Tasks: Designing the co-operative's organizational structure to best fulfill the expectations of its key stakeholders, including but not limited to the membership and the board of directors. Ensuring that the co-operative maintains accurate and sufficient corporate records, maintains and interprets the bylaws.
👪 Squad Members: Lexa (lead), Ben, Dante, Udit
✅ Tasks: GitHub board > governance label
Responsibilities: Guiding internal and external communications in alignment with its strategic vision.
Tasks: Crafting Hypha's communication strategy, aligning messaging with the co-operative's core values, leading marketing and branding initiatives and ensuring cohesive internal communications.
👪 Squad Members: Vincent (lead), Andi, Dante, Violet
✅ Tasks: GitHub board > comms label