Zee Spencer (He/They) @Zee@social.coop

#Introduction!

I'm Zee, I've been working in #Cooperatives since 2017, when I quit working in #FinTech and launched #Cohere with three colleagues.

In 2019 I launched #ZincCoop, a Contributor and Maintainer owned #Cooperative. We acquired #MomentPark, and released it to the public domain; and are building #Convene, a federation-forward operating system for the Digital Solidarity Economy.

Follow my personal life at @zee@weirder.earth

We did quite a bit today!

- Editing a Room is now all in-page; so you can add and configure Markdown, Spotlight Images, and other Furniture without leaving the page: https://github.com/zinc-collective/convene/pull/710
- Fixed a bug in the EmbeddedForm furniture which didn't play nicely with all Airtable Form Embed URLS: https://github.com/zinc-collective/convene/pull/731
- Rooms order their Furniture by the given Rank: https://github.com/zinc-collective/convene/pull/732

Going live at 6PM PT in https://convene.zinc.coop/livestream with @anaulin. We'll be working on #Convene, an Operating System for the Solidarity Economy by #ZincCoop.

We're going to continue streamlining the Space Member experience, in particular bringing a higher degree of interactivity when placing, modifying, or re-arranging Furniture by better integrating #Hotwire #TurboStreams.

Hop on in and chat #Cooperatives, #Technology, #OpenSource and #MutualAid with us!

Monthly #ZincCoop Member Meeting went well, we're getting ready to do our quarterly community update in July!

What would you like to hear about?

Mel Conway, author of Conway's Law, put together a nice thread that I think is a strong argument for #DataCooperatives and #PlatformCooperatives

https://twitter.com/conways_law/status/1536754984078958593

> "Every so often there will be a burst of Twitter conversations on the “Reverse Conway Manoeuver” and related topics.
I find this encouraging, but not for a reason you might suspect.

...

Of course we don’t have the foggiest idea how to go about doing this. (Or how to obtain support to do it.)"

#Cooperatives #Coop

Two PRs today!

The first one follows up on the work @anaulin and I started to make the editing room feel a little bit smoother: https://github.com/zinc-collective/convene/pull/723

The next bit turns that to 11, but adding in #TurboStreams, so that we ca use #HotWire to append the newly added furniture to the page without a full reload: https://github.com/zinc-collective/convene/pull/724

That ones a little bit rougher, since I'm not fluent in #HotWIre yet :X.

But I'll get there!

Going live hacking on #Convene, an Operating System for the Solidarity Economy! https://convene.zinc.coop/livestream

Unfortunately, @anaulin is out today, but I'm going to carry forward the redesign we started last week!

#ZincCoop

In #Tech #Cooperatives we replace #CustomerDevelopment with #CommunityDevelopment.

This is harder, more nebulous, and requires a different set of skills than standard technology organization sales and marketing techniques, however.

https://www.resilience.org/stories/2021-06-18/the-blackfoot-wisdom-that-inspired-maslows-hierarchy/

"While Maslow saw self-actualization as something to earn, the Blackfoot see it as innate. Relating to people as inherently wise involves trusting them and granting them space to express who they are (...) rather than making them the best they can be. For many First Nations, therefore, self-actualization is not achieved; it is drawn out of an inherently sacred being who is imbued with a spark of divinity."

The Reconciliation of Labor occurs as we recognize and step into the powers we hold as workers:

- The power to advocate for ourselves.
- The power to create benefits for ourselves and others.
- The power to share in the wealth created in proportion to our contributions.

Each of these powers build upon one another like waves, cascading towards a cycle of socioeconomic healing.

As part of our Bi-Weekly each-one-teach-one programs, where #ZincCoop works with entry/mid-level engineers to develop their computational thinking skills, we made some progress wrapping up the workflow for inviting someone to a #Convene Space: https://github.com/zinc-collective/convene/pull/715

In particular, we:
- Automated a check for authenticated users responding to invitations.
- Automated some adversarial checks to prevent folks who were not invited from responding to invitations.

We made some pretty exciting improvements to the Room edit flow.

Now, instead of drilling in through Edit Space -> Rooms -> Edit Room

Space Members can tap the Gear icon, which turns on edit mode, and places ⚙️and 🗑 icons on each piece of Furniture.

When the ⚙️ is tapped, it lets them configure the Furniture right there without ever navigating away from the page!

With ActionCable + TurboLinks, we should be able to push those changes live to people in the same Room.

Gonna start an Ensemble on #Convene with @anaulin at ~6PM PT!

Convene is an Operating System for the Solidarity Economy built by #ZincCoop.

#Cooperative and #MutualAid / #MutualBenefit networks host a Neighborhood of Spaces for their #Cooperatives. Each Space can be tailored to the particular organizations value flow.

Watch / Listen / Chat Heckle here: https://convene.zinc.coop/livestream

Or, if you wanna hack with us, DM me for the secret zoom link!

Lovely time with the #USFWC #TechPeerNetwork! Sad that Ajoke is leaving us, but I'm hopeful we'll be able to keep ourselves together!

I forgot to push my #FactoryBot extension, `factory_bot-namespaced_factories` to Rubygems; but it's out there now! http://rubygems.org/gems/factory_bot-namespaced_factories

Domain driven design is hard enough without tooling to support it!

#Ruby #RubyOnRails #DomainDrivenDesign #Programming