Together with the Governance Working Group, I've just posted a proposal to clarify the language in the #SocialCoop Bylaws: https://www.loomio.org/p/1PSop0v2/bylaws-revision-clarify-proposal-process Please participate. The proposal is open for 10 days.
Now for the awkward “read any good books lately?” phase of entering a new social medium, wherein I link out to stuff I’ve been reading in hopes of either finding conversations to join or sparking them off.
Likely topics in 2018 include: #nlproc with Indigenous languages; agroecology and urban agriculture; Southern radical strategy; programming languages; Quakerism; and of course worker cooperatives in tech and elsewhere.
I love @theselc's adorable new zine on why California should legalize home-based food business for co-ops, nonprofits, and local governments.
Yay I'm as happy as @daspitzberg to be at #may2uwo in Oakland!
Anyone have #Faraday bag recommendations?
@meia come through!
RSVP to join us in-person at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/user-worker-owner-bringing-democracy-to-work-tickets-45365886588
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Sign up for the ≈livestream≈ at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/user-worker-owner-livestream-tickets-45664400451
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Speakers and schedule finalized for User, Worker, Owner!
5-8pm @ VSCO, 1500 Broadway, Oakland:
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4:30- Doors open
5:00- Welcome, opening remarks
5:15- Talks on cooperative alternatives by @niloufar @ntnsndr, and Camille Kerr
6:00- Pizza from Arizmendi and Kombucha
6:15- Pitches for workshops/group discussions
6:30- Featured workshop, on how democratic governance works, by Harmonize and Reflex Design Collective
7:30- Reflections and connections from workshops
7:50- Ice cream, closing remarks
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Today’s the last day to get early bird tickets for User, Worker, Owner! And, we just confirmed a talk by Camille Kerr from ICA Group about a booking platform for home care workers. If you’re in the Bay Area, come discuss workplace challenges, meet peers, get tools, and eat ice cream next Wednesday, 5-8pm.
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Get tickets on ~boo hisss~ Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/user-worker-owner-bringing-democracy-to-work-tickets-45365886588
Have experience working in the bar and restaurant industry, live in the Boston area, and would like to be a worker-owner in a cooperative starting at at least $15 an hour?
Democracy Brewing is hiring.
https://www.facebook.com/pg/democracybrewing1/jobs/193241718136796/
Hey, #BayArea #platformcoop friends. Let's challenge our assumptions about equity and tech. Come a gathering in Oakland on May 2, "Users, Workers, Onwers!" @ntnsndr and @niloufar will be speaking, too!
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RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/users-workers-owners-bringing-democracy-to-work-tickets-45365886588
🙌 https://social.coop/media/z57mSQuXlSQW0nyCxvQ
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So over on Twitter, people are ~roasting~ Facebook. My favorite: https://twitter.com/jbillinson/status/983794886125158400
@omanreagan Cleary time to re-up #BuyTwitter https://www.buytwitter.org/ (and turn it into a Mastodon instance?)
cc @daspitzberg
"an increasing portion of Twitter’s revenue is coming from its data licensing business, which 'makes this money from selling user data even from private messages.'" <- That means Twitter is selling data from your DMs. 🧐
RT @business@twitter.com Twitter plunged to its lowest price in 6 weeks after short-seller Citron Research said it was betting against the company https://bloom.bg/2pLfECc
@mako However,.. the open source and proprietary, extractive software world is only aping the more base practices of collaboration - not peer production, but crowdsourcing. Even Local Motors distinguishes themselves from Amazon Mechanical Turk and its ilk. (Handy diagram by Benkler) https://social.coop/media/mizrtUD-FaNPmEv4z1Y
Closing #libreplanet, @mako cites a paper about the growth of collaborative consumption out of the commons and into the market. The “cultural subsidy” of wanting to improve open things we need for ourselves is still reliable... but, exploitable? https://social.coop/media/rQxRduGGD5G6jyeHqtw https://social.coop/media/NRJZ6xDbGFXGOPku8tk https://social.coop/media/YS_YQ7UKpmc77HvmAYg
Seth Schoen «Conjectures on social media tradeoffs» #libreplanet #libreplanet2018