People: Drew Wilkinson (Team Lead), Inbal Nachman, Valerie Vadala, Viktoriia Tkachenko

Past volunteers: Nikhil Bhat, Vasudha S, Anne Spalding, Flore Costumé, Micaela Mastropietro, Kush Ghetia, Victoire Dumont, Mostafa Elkady, Julia Pasek, Natalia Postrigan, Lydia Le Page, Polly Peterson, Tilmann, Brian Bergeron, Carolyn Eastman, Christina Armor, Sal Bedarnz

Channel: #core-subcommunities

Meeting notes: Meeting notes here

OKRs: SC OKRs

Task tracker: https://app.asana.com/0/1203761604265860/1203761604265860

Audit: Sept 22 Audit

Subco engagement ideas, including #meet channels: Ideas summary

Guidelines for community creation.

🎯 What is the purpose of this team?

A subcommunity (subco) is a subset of WoCl members who have a lot in common: eg. are in the same role, sector of climate, region, or identity. This team makes sure WoCl has a healthy ecosystem of subcos. This team is successful if every WoCl member is part of one or more subcos that are highly relevant to them and well-run.

"Well-run" means that the subcommunity is all three of the following:

Helpful to its members in achieving their climate work goals
Effective at building strong work relationships and collaborations between its members
Effective at uniting members around our cause of making climate work mainstream

Some things that do not, per se, count as being well-run: having a lot of members, having a lot of activity on Slack.

For a well-run subco to contribute substantially to WoCl’s mission, these things must be true for a large chunk, ideally a majority of its members. For example, if a 2,000-person subco runs a networking event that only ends up connecting 20 of its members per quarter, that’s not enough.

How does this team’s success contribute to WoCl’s mission?

If this team succeeds in achieving these goals, then most WoCl members will have strong work relationships and collaborations with others like themselves.

That is fertile soil for ecosystem efforts - for example, for getting the subcommunity of designers to start a climate track at a design conference - thus furthering WoCl's larger mission.