Meeting tomorrow + tendering q - CTP Tech Partners

19 Nov 2024

Heya all just a reminder we have a meeting in tomorrow at noon - zoom here

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/84708264008?pwd=iaMMhdtol3bTbWibenAZho1avKHAwl.1

I have a question for you all which is about how we go for work. So
currently we are prob all tendering for the same jobs (if we are tendering
at all) and are very reliant on the left economy at large to be producing
enough work for us collectively (which is getting more and more iffy huh).
Maybe theres better times for us to intervene in designing and delivering
work together.

This is confidential (i.e. please don't share off list) but I've been doing
an intro consult with the Trans Learning Partnership and in the last
session we boiled it down to 3 main user stories:

[image: Screenshot 2024-11-18 at 15.44.05.png]

Our goal is to get to something that can go directly in a funding bid.

If I'm gonna shift GFSC more into this left-infrastructure role, I'm now
realising maybe this is the time it would be good to involve other
perspectives/ideas? Or at least open the door to anyone interested? Like
maybe GFSC is now less interested in the build and more interested in
helping shepherd these projects in and the relationship is less just
studio-client and more about getting the balance right between engaging in
existing political movements and doing the work? Not sure.

Thoughts welcome either on this list or tomorrow. I can't pay you but if
anyone did want to come to the final session next week with them where we
are doing some "how might wes" against this do let me know, it's 1-4 next
tue.

(Obviously in this case its a trans group so I would prob want to partner
with trans-led or trans-involving studios but I'm talking about the general
principle here of how to put together a more community-oriented build team
than this specific job as well!)

Kim

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