Initiatives
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 🔒.
All hands
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
Community cultivating
Supports the social connections and team bonding within the co-op by hosting social events.
✅ Tasks: GitHub board > community-cultivating label
Coop dev
Support cooperative ecosystem developments.
✅ Tasks: GitHub board > coop-dev label
Data centre
Responsible for monitoring and maintaining infrastructure stored in our data centre, and responding to infrastructure emergencies.
✅ Tasks: GitHub board > data-centre label
Dripline
Responsible for maintaining our reading/writing practice and publishing posts to our Dripline blog.
✅ Tasks: GitHub board > dripline label
Engineering culture
Facilitates the sharing of engineering knowledge across client projects to upskill engineers and define Hypha's engineering values.
✅ Tasks: GitHub board > engineering-culture label
Handbook
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our internal handbook at handbook.hypha.coop (e.g., Noticing and fixing broken links, calling for adjustments to out-of-date material).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
Hello Hypha
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
Innovation circle
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
Roo dev
Develops and maintains our Matrix chatbot.
✅ Tasks: GitHub board > roo-dev label
📋 Repo: roo-repo
Subject matter support
Responsible for providing subject matter expertise on a particular topic.
✅ Tasks: GitHub board > subject-matter-support label
Website
Maintains the content in our public-facing website at hypha.coop.
✅ Tasks: GitHub board > website label
📋 Repo: hypha-coop-repo
Back office working groups
Contains core business activities for sustaining Hypha's virtual office.
Finance
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
Infrastructure
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
Operations
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
Strategy / Opportunities
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
Governance
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
Communications
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