Leo Sammallahti @LeoSammallahti@social.coop
Platform cooperatives that allow anyone to join anywhere at anytime.
WeCo (www.weco.io) Reddit replacement
Resonate (www.resonate.is) Spotify replacement
Types of co-op membership commitment:
-utilitarian (practical, incentive based)
-affective (emotional attachment/bond to cooperative)
-normative (ideological/ alignment with cooperative values)
Have we been placing too much emphasis on utilitarian means of membership commitment? Is there more to why members will commit to a cooperative?
Hey Gregg, I remember you're interested in 3d printing. Do you (or anyone else) have recommended articles, videos etc. about the possibilities of open source 3d printing?
I don't have a 3 d printer myself so not interested so much doing stuff in practice, just interested about the "scene" of open source 3d printing.
A blog platform #CoopIdea:
- You pay a 1 $/month .
- You spend 1% of time in the blog platform reading article A.
- Article A's author is given 1 cent.
It would be the opposite of clickbait and incentivize long read articles.
The platform should detect the pace by which users scroll down to know if they are actually reading the article. That sort of data could then be used by the authors to find how to improve their articles.
Maybe combined with Medium type x number of free articles/week.
Beware of any ideology or movement that demands purity or perfection.
At best they will just fail.
At worst they become totalitarian.
More likely they’ll just make things worse.
Well at least hinder things from getting better by discarding ideas, people, and contributions that may incrementally improve conditions but aren’t deemed radically pure enough.
Pushing scholarly #publishing toward a 100% #openaccess model. https://aeon.co/ideas/scholarly-publishing-is-broken-heres-how-to-fix-it
This Aeon article includes discussion on improving the way peer review, etc. works. The author (Tennant) says" "All of the technology and traits to build a hybridised scholarly commons infrastructure already exists. It is up to academic communities themselves to step away from their apathy and towards a fairer and more democratic system for sharing our knowledge and work."
Made a categorization of enterprises with employee ownership and management to social coop Wiki.
https://wiki.social.coop/Types_Of_Employee_Ownership_And_Management
I made it into 3 different charts, what do you think is the best?
Toot me which you like the best, or give your answer in a poll on WeCo (platform cooperative replacement for Reddit):
https://www.weco.io/b/root/p/leosammallahti-1530597749156/vote
Also, a relevant Quora question of mine.
What do you think about my new profile description?
I'm starting to turn into platform coop Jehovas Witness like @mattcropp...
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Anybody know anything about FairBnB? Apparently it's a #cooperative version of AirBnB.
https://fairbnb.coop/
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I just saw an interesting idea on Twitter which might be fun to try some day.
They called it an "inverted conference." The idea is that every participant records their presentation using screen-cap software or whatever, and everyone who "attends" the conference can watch these videos at their leisure.
Then, when actually "attending" the conference (whatever that may entail, be it in person or via Hangouts, etc.), those who have watched video X may then discuss X with others.
Social democratic parties are standing on two pillars, trade unionism and cooperativism.
- Unions offer higher wages and working conditions.
- Coops offer cheaper goods and services.
These pillars enabled economic self-help for people. It's different (not better) than general uni activism or a NGO with equally or more noble cause.
Relevant article by @ntnsndr
Lack of focus on economic self-help might help explain Pikettys findings below:
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Wikipedia Makes The Case For Google & Facebook To Give Back To The Commons, Rather Than Just Take
#wikipedia #wikimedia #commons #freeculture #google #facebook
What are social coop peoples thoughts on regulatory technology or RegTech?
Just came across it, there's few people in Twitter with overlapping interests of both RegTech and cooperative banking.
I could also imagine that catching bankers doing bad things would be something many platform cooperative tech people would like to do :D.
Co-ops, democratically run and emphasizing long-term sustainability over short-term profits, are a key part of the #SolidarityEconomy.
Earlier this month, Wired UK published a brief but interesting profile of "CoTech, a growing network of tech co-operatives in the UK. There are currently 30 tech businesses united under the CoTech banner, which range from filmmakers to programmers; they collectively employ more than 250 staff and have revenues of over £10.2 million."
http://www.wired.co.uk/article/cotech-tech-cooperatives-blake-house-outlandish
How do we design a highly complex system where only a few people understand its complexity, without those people being able to subvert the system for their own ends?
Economic advantages of co-ops mapped out in my most recent article for The People's News- https://www.thepeoplesnewsonline.co.uk/single-post/2018/05/10/co-operatives-are-the-key-for-our-economy/