agaric @agaric@social.coop
Empowering the web through #freesoftware and #cooperative principles.
Joined May 2018
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Agaric uses Free Software for most of our daily business operations. If the tools are not available, we actively work to find developers who are building them. No matter what kind of work you do, these privacy protecting softwares will serve you well!
Read our blog and learn how to run your business on Free Software too!
https://agaric.coop/blog/daily-business-operations-using-free-software
Agaric's Show and Tell is this Thursday at 3PM Eastern.
This week, we will discuss Design Justice!
Here are some questions to get us started:
What are some examples of design justice?
design injustice?
How do you practice design justice?
Design justice is important to our work, so we want to make sure it is on everyone's radar!
For more info on attending and joining our Show and Tell mailing list, visit:
Yesterday, our Show and Tell topic was creativity. However, we mostly talked about music!
We discussed many #freesoftware tools for creating and performing music, and some of us shared about our personal relationships with music and our tools of choice.
What a breath of fresh air!
We have liberating doodle-discussions at Show and Tell every Thursday at 3PM ET. Everyone is welcome!
Here is this week's doodle :)
The Agaric Show and Tell is this Thursday at 3PM Eastern:
This week, doodle with us while we discuss creativity!
What is it?
Why is it important?
What is its role in #cooperatives?
How has your creativity been affected by the pandemic?
The discussion will be loose and open, so make yourself comfortable and spread the word!
For more info on attending and joining our show and tell mailing list, visit:
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I just published a delightful conversation with @FreeScholar. She shares her experiences with @agaric, cooperativism, free software, and much more.
Listen and/or read here: https://realcoopstories.org/micky-metts-agaric/
🌲👩🏼💻🌲
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@colombene gave an interesting show-and-tell at @agaric today about the https://datacommons.coop/ and the wireframes for their new Fabric data-sharing project https://xd.adobe.com/view/7be993cd-4bdf-4e8b-a33a-989b91ef2dda-2eba/grid
Any of y'all social.coop people connected to the datacommons project? If so, how do you intend to use it?
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The Agaric Show and Tell is this Thursday at 3PM Eastern:
a member of Data Commons Coop will be showing the work they have done in Trebor Sholz/Mondragon's #platformcoop class. The platform they are building could be used to strengthen the networking capability of #cooperatives – a subject which we discuss often.
For more info on attending and joining our show and tell mailing list, visit:
The Agaric Show and Tell is this Thursday at 3PM Eastern:
a member of Data Commons Coop will be showing the work they have done in Trebor Sholz/Mondragon's #platformcoop class. The platform they are building could be used to strengthen the networking capability of #cooperatives – a subject which we discuss often.
For more info on attending and joining our show and tell mailing list, visit:
Yesterday at Show and Tell we talked about some of the ways that we can overcome de-platforming. We discussed p2p platforms, ethical cooperative web hosts, and more.
Sound interesting?
You can sign up for our mailing list to get more details on upcoming discussions and join us every Thursday at 3PM.
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My good friends at @agaric announced their complete education service. As a privacy and free software advocate, and as an educator myself, I couldn't recommend what they do more. Check it out at https://agaric.coop/online-learning
Agaric uses Free Software for most of our daily business operations. If the tools are not available, we actively work to find developers who are building them. No matter what kind of work you do, these privacy protecting softwares will serve you well!
Read our blog and learn how to run your business on Free Software too!
https://agaric.coop/blog/daily-business-operations-using-free-software
On Thursday at 3PM Eastern,
join us at our weekly Show and Tell as we continue our discussion on de-platforming!
For more info on attending and joining our show and tell mailing list, visit:
Here are some questions to get you thinking:
Do you know anyone who has been de-platformed?
Who are they? How have they and their community been affected?
What can we do about it? As a community? As tech workers?
This week at Show and Tell, we discussed the politics of de-platforming, as well as alternative communication configurations, such as federated and p2p platforms. Check in with us next week on Thursday at 3PM Eastern as the conversation continues!
Want some new skills to start a new career path in Drupal? Never touched Drupal? Now is the time... Agaric has an on-ramp for you!!
Getting started with Drupal 9
Lead instructor: Mauricio Dinarte
Date: Tuesday, October 6, 2020
Time: 9AM–5PM Eastern
Cost: $250
Sign up now and we can help you get your dev environment setup before the event!!! Govs and Universities are looking for good Drupal devs for projects - migration and upgrades ahead.
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@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
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@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!
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@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.
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Great case study of a democratic elementary school:
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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
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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/
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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
Empowering the web through #freesoftware and #cooperative principles.
Joined May 2018
