Intersect Town Hall Framework
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This framework outlines the structure, roles, and processes that guide the Intersect Town Hall ecosystem, emphasizing collaboration, transparency, and community-driven engagement. It establishes a recurring schedule of events, including workgroup sessions, stand-up meetings, and the main Intersect Town Hall, followed by an After Town Hall session for further discussion.
Intersect Town Halls are built on co-creative iteration. Each week, there is a syncing activity to prepare for the upcoming Town Hall. Twice per year, check if people prefer to change time zones.
The standard schedule goes like this:
On the 1st week of the month, Thursday at 16:00 UTC - 1st Workgroup Session is held.
On the 2nd week of the month, Thursday at 16:00 UTC - 2nd Workgroup Session is held.
On the 3rd week of the month, Thursday at 16:00 UTC, a Swarm Stand Up Session will be held.
On the 4th week of the month, Thursday at 16:00 UTC - Intersect Town Hall and After Town Hall is held.
This schedule helps to establish pattern and predictability
The up-to-date Schedule of events will be visible on the .
Changes to the Calendar are made with the account townhalls@intersectmbo.com
Discord Chronicle Bot picks up Google Calendar changes and creates Discord Events automatically.
for Miro Board Meeting Notes
Monthly Google Doc -
This Session is intended to:
Review and distribute project tasks based on current WG capacity.
Validate task documentation and evidence to move tasks for payment.
Discuss any other Intersect Town Hall related topics
The review of tasks/decisions and the project board stand-up are recorded for ease of transparent and accountable reporting.
Town Hall is a regular meeting for a community to
come together
share updates
discuss important issues
It’s somewhere where you can reach many people at once from all sections of your community.
It’s an open space where anyone can stand up and share something, but there’s a structure in the form of different “slots” where community members can bring content.
It’s shaped by the community it serves; so what it’s like, depends on who’s there.
After Town Hall is an informal, community-led event that happens immediately after a Town Hall.
It consists of a series of breakout rooms, each facilitated by a community member, about a topic of interest to them - for example
sharing something they’re working on
or discussing an issue they care about
The breakout rooms take place simultaneously and Town Hall attendees choose which one to attend.
Anyone can sign up to run one, and can run it in whatever style they like.
The Swarm Town Hall team can offer support with planning, facilitating or documenting
Sign Up Form: Closed
Above in the schedule, you find ways to connect with us in live sessions. In addition, members of Intersect Town Hall are also joining other Workgroups and meetings to help establish more relations between groups and Town Halls.
For asynchronous work, we use various platforms:
Intersect Discord Server - Intersect Town Hall Channel (Channel Deleted)
Intersect Town Hall Deliverables and Budgeting
Intersect Town Hall Problems and strategies to solve these problems
Emails - Coordinate with Intersect Members who prefer different communication methods other than Discord
We use Google Google Docs and Sheets with commenting access to provide better transparency and open up for improvements.
IntersectMBO can help to update Intersect Newsletters. Requests may not be fulfilled after confirmation. Plan newsletters two weeks ahead.
The Intersect Staff team cannot always announce Intersect Town Hall's start in the Discord announcements channel and can not give you access to do it.
The Intersect Staff team may not amplify messages for Intersect Town Halls.
You may need to have extra private sessions with Intersect Staff earlier in the project before you may proceed with the proposal delivery.
Our questions and requirements remained unaddressed for extended periods, ranging from weeks to even months. This lack of responsiveness created challenges in meeting our objectives effectively and required us to find alternative solutions to keep progress on track.
Town Hall Facilitators
After Town Hall Facilitators
Town Hall Workgroup Facilitators
Workgroup sessions - create workgroup publicity updates and/or meeting summary
Town Hall - Update Town Hall related Documentation
After Town Hall Bounty - Create session description and/or meeting summary, timestamp video if applicable
Call Outs - To workgroup Sessions, Town Hall Events, submitting surveys and inviting to facilitate
Town Halls - Request for update slides from groups and Intersect Staff
Workgroup Sessions - Share additional outputs of the session with engaging questions
After Town Hall - Share After Town Hall summary in their own network
Share Summaries - Updates from workgroup sessions, updates from Town Halls, updates from After Town Halls
30min - Review and Update the Intersect Town Hall Problem Board
GitHub Project Board -
GitHub Problem Board -
Google Docs to keep track of the
Public for planning messaging channels and strategy how we use them
They take ownership of Town Hall proposal deliverables on