agaric @agaric@social.coop

@LeoSammallahti @starbreaker@mastodon.art

I've been thinking of writing a blog post comparing the Find It Platform to Yelp. Because Find It is free and open source software, built between a cooperative ( @agaric ) and the City of Cambridge, co-designed with and for city residents, it serves local organizations in a truly beneficial way

as opposed to Yelp, which "serves" local businesses in a predatory way.

There are aspirations of Find It being a platform coop. I'll DM you to chat further! /cc @mlncn

@therealraccoon @agaric I personally am in Minneapolis now and while we have a huge overall co-op scene i don't know of any pan-coop federation nor of a specifically worker-coop network in the Twin Cities, but i'd love to be corrected or be part of forming one!

@therealraccoon sure! @agaric is in the North American network https://techworker.coop/ (website out of date, but the group has re-activated and is actively adding members). We're also in the Boston Chamber of Cooperatives https://www.boston.coop/ which is for all kinds of cooperatives and i think is meant to include WORC’N, Worker-Owned and Run Cooperative Network of Greater Boston, https://worcn.org/ .. which we're also in and paying for the domain name & meetup group but it isn't active.

Great case study of a democratic elementary school:

https://www.sociocracyforall.org/enkindle-casestudy/

Back on the fediverse after a while to write some toots for @karrot , I remembered that I wrote a text for food saving/sharing groups making a case for them not to use Facebook for organizing and to choose free and open-source tools instead.

I make not only an ethical argument, but also explain why other tools are much better suited for these communities to grow and work properly:
https://foodsaving.today/en/blog/2018/07/24/organize-outside-facebook

Karen Miller, an old friend, comrade, and CUNY prof started a co-op online homeschool a few months ago. Thousands of kids have participated. I plan to interview her for GEO... http://www.homeschoolcoop2020.com/

Wow, there is a whole public conversation going on inside the Creative Commons copy of 'Twitter & Teargas' via hypothes.is

Now that's what I call hypertext

https://via.hypothes.is/https://www.twitterandteargas.org/downloads/twitter-and-tear-gas-by-zeynep-tufekci.pdf

@agaric is taking our #DrupalCon
#Drupal trainings online so no one has to miss out. Get fully into #Drupal9 by migrating your content into it!

https://agaric.coop/blog/online-trainings-drupal-migration-and-upgrades

If you or someone you know has been affected by layoffs at #mozilla, please know that 1) you/the person are brilliant and valuable regardless of employment status and 2) we are hiring for lotsa roles here at Nylas https://boards.greenhouse.io/nylas

Holler if you're even vaguely curious! #hiring #techjobs

Your GEO Weekly Newsletter is hot off the presses, so fresh the pixels are still warm!

https://mailchi.mp/0b5d8c6fbb5d/7-solutions-for-accountability-interview-with-malik-yakini-geo-weekly-newsletter

#Cooperatives #FoodSecurity #Detroit #Accountability #SolidarityEconomy

In praise of Ella Jo Baker:

https://geo.coop/blog/praise-ella-josephine-baker-and-barbara-ransby

Yesterday, @pcc_global@twitter.com launched the course Who Owns the World? https://www.whoownstheworld.org/

Next week's lecture by New York Times labor correspondent @greenhouseny@twitter.com will be about unions!

Watch the live stream on January 29, 6 pm ET.
https://www.whoownstheworld.org/live-stream-1

Current Affairs gets it: we need #WorkerOwned #Media.

https://www.currentaffairs.org/2019/10/the-urgent-need-for-worker-owned-media

Of course, because we're so f'cking cool, we've already got social.coop and GEO people working on this 😎