Matt Cropp 🌲🌲 @mattcropp@social.coop

[BREAKING] Leaked Facebook emails reveal "number one threat" to its platform: decentralized platforms.

#FediverseNewsNetwork

Legally we have registered ourselves as a Limited Liable Partnership (LLP). We wanted to register as a #Cooperative in #Puducherry #India. But the Cooperative Act for Puducherry states that there should be a minimum of 25 members to register as a #Cooperative

Unlike material production, we are a Software Engineering consulting services company therefore it was not suitable for us to register legally as Coop due to the number of members required. Therefore, we registered ourselves as an LLP and wrote our Deed like a Cooperative. i.e We are operating as if we are a cooperative but legally we are not.

Thanks to Nilenso the India’s first Software Cooperative from #Bangalore without whose help and guidance we wouldn’t know how to get this legal process done. It was their Deed document which helped us.

We strongly believe in workers self-management along with commitment to class struggle. We have regular sessions to educate ourselves on previous experiences of building cooperatives across centuries, we have knowledge sharing sessions, etc.,

We would like to contribute more in the sphere of #PlatformCooperativism

An essay by Trebor Scholz, titled Platform Cooperativism was the one that inspired us to start such a coop here.

We don’t take Venture Capital, for it is fundamentally against practising Economic Democracy and we don’t strive to become a Tech. Startup whose aims are to be either chewed away by big tech. giants or become another big brother, instead we would love to practice what @aral and @laura termed as Stayups

Like this Cooperative #Fediverse, let there be federation of workers cooperatives.

Come train for social change with us!

Now accepting applications for our @CUBoulderCMCI Media and Public Engagement MA program: https://www.colorado.edu/cmci/academics/media-studies/ma-media-and-public-engagement

Sage advice from @jhoronjeff of #platformcoop @savvy_coop. Read carefully.

Laughing my ass off because only in this benighted age are we privileged to read the words, "Introducing the Star Wars x Le Creuset collection at Williams Sonoma"

thinking about organizing my neighbors collectively to share the labor and the output of our backyard chickens, but then on the other hand, what if we had a disagreement over something, and someone then plotted a takeover of the governing board. it'd be a coop co-op coup

Of interest for those looking for more responsible retirement investing:
https://www.thenextegg.org/

"The Next Egg creates resources, builds communities, and shares tools necessary so that millions of us can move our retirement savings out of Wall Street and into our local communities. These tools include self-directed IRAs, solo 401(k)s, and employee-directed 401(k)s. [...] If we succeed, we will see trillions flow into our communities and out of the global corporations."

Brightly, a home cleaning worker coop, becomes a franchise - https://www.fastcompany.com/90370579/worker-owned-domestic-cleaning-businesses-are-gearing-up-for-a-massive-expansion

Home cleaners in the US earn $11/hour. Cleaners at Brightly worker cooperative get $21/hour

Theres a massive expansion of cleaner coops planned through a franchise model

#coops