The Cosmos Co-op Indiegogo crowdfunder is LIVE. With 28 days left, we're up to 10% of our funding goal. Here's your opportunity to join our creative evolution.
The Cosmos Co-op Indiegogo crowdfunder is LIVE. With 28 days left, we're up to 10% of our funding goal. Here's your opportunity to join our creative evolution.
Come join the Artisans Cooperative as a member!
We're a 100% artisan owned cooperative building a better handmade marketplace together!
Check us out here: https://artisans.coop/pages/membership
We're recruiting a new member to wrangle messy open energy data! If you want to put your #Python skills to work on the #EnergyTransition creating #OpenSource software and #OpenData, and value having flexibility and autonomy in your workplace, check out the job description and instructions for applying here:
I've been playing around with Mastodon for some time, but now seems like the right moment to commit to it. So, here's a new #intro post!
I'm Rhys I'm a journalist, writer and community organiser living in #Leicester, UK. I co-founded @thegazettecoop, a local, independent newspaper about #Leicestershire. It's run as a worker and reader #cooperative.
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@simondassow The folk over at @SocialCoop run their Mastodon instance as a cooperative and they conveniently have a wiki that describes exactly how they operate.
@ntnsndr and others, do you know of any consumer, worker, or platform cooperative domain registrar for domains beyond .coop? After paying nearly $40/year to renew some soon-expiring domains at Gandi, and generally rampant private equity in the domain registration space, it would be awesome to support a #cooperative. #platformcoop #cooperatives
Although the Nonprofit Industrial Complex has some sophisticated gatekeepers barring access, I've renewed my efforts to find San Francisco Bay Area cooperators interested in my proposed nonprofit for unique S.T.E.A.M.-focused ArtScience demonstration projects that serve the common good.
While general participants are welcome, I need the commitment of board-level founders.
#SFBA, #EastBay, #NonProfit, #Research, #Design, #Development, #CitizenScience, #Science, #Technology, #Engineering, #Arts, #Math, #Cooperative, #Mutualism, #Prefigurative
We just published our funding structure and detailed income since the beginning of robur -- https://blog.robur.coop/articles/finances.html #cooperative #mirageos #ocaml #money #transparency -- and why we're doing what we're doing. :)
Share this post far and wide!
For October, we're doing a Membership Drive to get the word out about our 100% artisan owned cooperative that is building a better handmade online marketplace!
You can join for as little as $10, and you can find out more at https://artisans.coop/pages/membership !
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You remember these glasses from your last trip to #France, I guess. Here’s the interesting story: Duralex, the manufacturer, was heading for liquidation. Investors that wanted to buy it existed, but they wanted to fire a lot of employees. So the court agreed to a different solution: create a cooperative, make Duralex workers owned. Now give them a hand and buy their glasses instead of the typical IKEA stuff, ok? :) https://eu.duralex.com/en-eu/collections/all-our-products
Communizing Society With Consumer Cooperatives
#Anarchy #Anarchism #Socialist #Socialism #Cooperative #Coop #History #Politics #Economics #Philosophy
Searching for an awesome place to sell your handmade wares?
Check out the Artisans Cooperative, a 100% artisan owned cooperative seeking to create a better handmade online marketplace!
This month we're having a Membership Drive, where you can open up a shop or support the coop with just $10!
Check it out at https://artisans.coop/pages/membership !
In the 1970s Quebec passed a law providing universal child care, but with an interesting caveat: the government would *only* pay cooperatively run childcare centers. If you wanted feudal childcare, you had to pay for it yourself. #cooperative
I pledge that when I ask for money for work, I will NOT:
- work for a boss
- be a boss
- let myself be exploited
- exploit or cheat anyone else
- do subpar work or stuff I don't believe in just for money
- use or support ads, tracking, LLMs or other privacy-/rights-violating software or similar (including yet-to-be-invented) technologies
- create artificial scarcity or tacitly support it
- make my services too expensive for people who need them
Instead I will work for donations or with a sliding scale so people pay according to their means.
Hey public / cooperative power advocates @aripeskoe is looking for examples of arguments in favor of these ownership models. Cc: @ntnsndr @chrisnelder
#cooperative #EnergyTransition #PublicPower #Utility #Electricity
*Niche request, please boost:*
Looking for input and expertise in **how to legally co-own a multigenerational family home** where seven of us live.
Two married couples with kiddos, plus a mother-in-law, all on the same property, living in what is essentially a single unit.
Our goals:
* giving all parties a fair share of home equity, given that one of us paid more for down payment and the rest of us pay for mortgage;
* minimizing complication + taxes when oldest person passes away;
* not paying a ton of money to a lawyer to handle this
* still able to put some/all of our land into conservation, eventually
Ideas:
Tenants in common with a co-ownership agreement? A complex trust? A coop or LLC?
EDIT: I'm in Massachusetts, USA
Hey friends! Am i going to find pain if i go with Debian vs Ubuntu based Linux or vice versa? I'm about to maybe try Mint 22, but before I do I wanted a distro with a green energy, coop kinda team behind it. Nothing is leaping at me so far. I dunno who the least corpo & most Eco people would be.
#Linux #linuxDistros #LinuxDistroReview #linux4hope #coop #cooperative
The official store for the #Fodongo zines is GeeseGoose Media Co-Op!
https://geesegoose.ca/product-category/zine/
There you can order physical issues, as well as download the new digital issues as they come out! And of course get the older digital issues for free, too, though if you choose to pay the revenue is shared with the participating artists. :)
There's other cool stuff made by other members of the Co-Op, all shipped from Canada and crafted with love.
Please do check it out!
Reposting my #introduction from @nolan@venera.social.
Hi, I'm Nolan, #blind #accessibility advocate, #game/#web/#mobile developer, #cooperative enthusiast, and animal-lover from Austin, TX. Other interests include #gaming, smoking meat, and occasionally dabbling in music creation/sound design.
Looking forward to meeting and connecting with cool folks.
Member @ZaneSelvans recently gave a talk at @CSVCONF organized by @okfn in Puebla on Workplace Democracy, Open Source & Open Data, based on our governance & business experience, and the video is up!