Zee Spencer @Zee@social.coop
Partner at Cohere, a Tech/Engineering Coop
Joined Oct 2017
Social Medium : Use Case : Examples : Cooperative alt?
Sidewalks : chit-chat from the day-to-day : Facebook, Twitter, Instagram : social.coop, ???
Cafés : Topical discussions : Reddit, MightyNetworks, Facebook Groups : #Convene, ???
Shops : Buy and Sell things : Shopify: #Compensated, ???
Workshops : Collaborate : Asana, GitHub, BaseCamp : Loomio, ???
Theaters : Entertain + Be entertained : YouTube, NetFlix, Spotify, Discord, Twitch : GroupMuse, Resonate, ???
What am I missing?
#Coops
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Oh! Patch here for anyone interested in learning more about #Terraform and #Jitsi!! https://github.com/zinc-collective/convene/commit/ebbb61781b48ad08fa80cad4d0482eeb088dd21f
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Mob-programmed with two of #ZincCoop's members today to move #Compensated's support for #Stripe subscription events forward.
End of the day we released v0.1.0.pre13: https://github.com/zinc-collective/compensated/commit/c0dda90119ddebfcc3dda1ab633391b3175815ff
And yes, it's not #OpenSource or #FreeSoftware.
#CommunitySource _shares ownership_ between customers, contributors, and maintainers.
It's an attempt to make a more equitable tech industry for everyone, not just the lucky few who get paid by their employer to contribute.
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I'm considering rebooting my Twitch account and streaming work on #Compensated and #RecipeBox from 10 to 12PM Pacific every Wednesday with a semi-random cast of contributors to #ZincCoop.
Working title is "#CodeAndCoops" and it's intended to be kind of like a talk show where we collaborate and casually move design, code, and documentation work forward in a friendly, thoughtful, and considerate way.
Would any of y'all be interested in that?
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I wrote up a summary of how I've been investing in cooperatives over the past two years in answer to a question ont he /r/cooperatives sub-reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/cooperatives/comments/fyw2ph/financing_a_cooperative/fn3kq5e/
One of the bootstrapped founders community I'm in (#ZebrasUnite) is converting to a #Coop!
Super exciting to see the #Coops movement growing!
https://medium.com/@sexandstartups/new-stripes-for-zebras-unite-1f22352b401b
I just updated the payment event handling package my product coop maintains!
Now we expose even more data from Stripe! https://github.com/zinc-collective/compensated/commits/0.X
#Compensated | #WorkLog | #ZincCoop | #Stripe | #Coops | #Coop
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Economic Justice Barbarian - A social game that explores using privilege to take daily, small risks and help everyone get what they need.
_Finally_ got around to putting the #ZincCoop operating agreement publicly online: https://www.zinc.coop/operating-agreement/
It's not perfect, but it's reasonably fair. We're planning to apply a number of patches throughout 2020; including one which more broadly opens up consumer membership.
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Maybe a month ago I stopped using the default git branch name "master". Now I call it "sprout" and it's so much more delightful to see & use! 🌱
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Did some infrastructure work this morning for #ZincCoop:
I added the #ghpages and #ncp node modules to the website so we have seams to apply templates / internationalize / etc when building the site.
- https://github.com/zinc-collective/www.zinc.coop/commit/9da6b2e9de8185a4613ecb255f95bff46bb1afe8
Refactored it:
- https://github.com/zinc-collective/www.zinc.coop/commit/2a8c544de7ee9353c86a9b2c4c777ecdc0da0c34
Fixed a redirect loop caused by #Cloudflare/#GithubPages fighting
- https://github.com/zinc-collective/www.zinc.coop/commit/6d7ec11218c8fe4f034d1b9be5523e7a7fa04ed9
Discovered #ghpages wasn't working quite right and added some debug info:
- https://github.com/zinc-collective/www.zinc.coop/commit/6e540bca7316b8f7bd34dfca07b5d64f37fbb29b
Today, three of us at #ZincCoop mob programmed on adding a bit more functionality to #Compensated.
Now it can handle _even more_ Apple In App Purchase event notifications! https://github.com/zinc-collective/compensated/issues/23
We had been waiting on adding support for these event them until we had real payloads; but eventually decided that it was probably worth adding in the support now since we're beginning to turn it on for production users.
If anyone is interested, here's a draft of the mechanisms #ZincCoop is using to operate as a multi-stakeholder cooperative
We're a worker-only cooperative at the moment ("directors") but I'm hoping to figure out the legal bits aorund contributor and community owners once I have a bit more bandwidth.
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If polyam folks call the people they <3 sweeties / cuties, can polycoop folks call the folks they’re working with beepies (BPs for short)?
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This is _way_ overdue, but I officially released #Nourish under the #ProsperityLicense.
https://github.com/zinc-collective/nourish
It's still early-alpha, but I'm hopeful to have a bit more bandwidth for defining features, accepting contributions, and driving features forward now that most of the finance and legal stuff has been ironed out for #ZincCoop.
#WorkLog / #Coop / #opensource
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And bam! Now #CrossProcessApp is _also_ relicensed under the #ProsperityLicense with it's source code released here: https://github.com/zinc-collective/mp-crossprocess
#WorkLog / #ZincCoop / #coops / #opensource
I'm excited to announce that the #Zinc #Coop has released #PlasticBullet's source code under the #LicenseZero #ProsperityLicense.
The next release of the app will include the license text, as well as bring improved support for modern devices and iOS 13.
#ZincCoop believes customers have the right to exercise direct control of software they've purchased; and that sustainable economic models for user-facing software can include broadly permissive licensing.
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SaaS you can’t host yourself is unethical.
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#business #finance #coop
Looking for a recommendation for a CPA/Financial advisor who specializes in small, tech-focused, owner/operated businesses that we can put on retainer. Prefer Oakland, CA or Washington DC Based.
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Recommend me a CPA/Bookkeeping #Coop that works remote and has diverse leadership?
Partner at Cohere, a Tech/Engineering Coop
Joined Oct 2017
