Design first syndicate meeting

[aprilmj]

Context

Part of how 2i2c creates our network effect today is by matching community leaders 1:1 - we'll make introductions between one community with a problem they need solved and another community who has already solved that problem.

We think that if we gather "syndicates" (collections of member communities with similar problems), we could accomplish several things:

• Build many:many connections, so the network effect grows
• 2i2c learns from communities about their shared problems, and they get to learn from each other
• We validate, refine and may identify funding sources for 2i2c roadmap work that multiple communities care about more context on that idea

What we need to do

We want syndicate meetings to be useful to everyone. To start, we think we'll need to identify:

• A common problem set (cost management, for instance)
• A list of 2i2c roadmap items that describe that problem set
• A group of communities who share that problem set, where some community leaders have already implemented solutions

Once we have a group of people and a problem space to discuss, we'll use our 1:1 connections to invite those people to share their problems and solutions.

Definition of Done

This piece of work will be done when:

• We've identified one "syndicate" (group of communities and the problem set they share)
• We've designed a meeting agenda that we think will be valuable to them (we can iterate a bit by asking 1-2 people what they'd like to discuss)
• We invite community leaders to the meeting (assuming that it's 1-2 sprints in the future)

What this isn't

This is not bringing Premier members or all project collaborators together (yet); we've learned that communities are interested in talking about specific problems and opportunities, with us and with each other, so we want to focus first on smaller gatherings of people with common needs.

[aprilmj]

@Gman0909, @colliand and @yuvipanda I'm proposing this card for the sprint that starts March 4. It sits in a space between designing the "horizontal connections" element of an RFP we're working on and a sales/community relationships experiment we want to run.