*Proposals and decision making* - Whenever we have to agree on stuff we collaboratively develop proposals and make decisions on them. Loomio is a useful tool if you do that on a regular basis.
Our take on proposals and decision making: Conversations lead to ideas, lead to enquiries, lead to proposals, lead to decision making, lead to projects. This is how things could unfold in a collaboration (or in any other order really). In this scenario a conversation could start in Slack, move into an online meeting, a team forms that does some research into possible ways forward which they coordinate on Trello and then it is time for their circle or the CoLab as a whole to define its position and take a decision on the matter. The people that took responsibility develop a proposal, share a draft with everyone (GDrive) that gets commented upon, revised, etc. until the proposal is finalised. It then gets moved to Loomio where we try to find out if the proposal is ready to be voted upon. If yes, Loomio is where we vote.
If you like to understand this a bit better (and find some more details), this blogpost is a great starting point.
As outlined above we use Loomio once we have something at the proposal stage. Prior discussions happen on Slack and Google Suite (mainly Docs) and proposals emerge out of these. Keep that in mind when watching the below short introduction to the usage of Loomio (or start watching at 1:32min).
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