After reading and discussing chapter 28 of Ours Yo Hack And To Own, I feel like though we're onto something big here at social.coop, we still need to figure out a key aspect of platform cooperation: how to orgnize the divion of labour.
Some jobs are self-evident (eg. maintaining the software and the machines), others a bit less so (eg. facilitation, onboarding, editorial etc.).
Bauwens suggests open coops use open-value accounting, like #Sensorica, maybe we should look into it?
@Antanicus There's #Enspiral too (the community of Loomio) - very sussed on the work involved, and processes for handling it transparently. #handbook is at https://legacy.gitbook.com/book/enspiral/enspiral-handbook/details . Financial transparency stuff is at https://handbook.enspiral.com/financial_transparency.html . Basic portal is https://enspiral.com
#Snowdrift.coop are VERY clear about their roles, processes &c. https://wiki.snowdrift.coop/about
After the #readinggroup was left wondering, some more, about relationships between #coop and #commons. Calls for thought?
@mike_hales
"License Zero is a permissive license based on the two-clause BSD license, but adds terms requiring commercial users to pay for a commercial license after 90 days (...) The idea is that other open source users can always use the software for free, but for-profit uses would require a payment."
OK, we need to act fast, the techbros are hell-bent on monetizing FOSS on their terms, uncapable as they are to understand a world without weallth extraction...
https://techcrunch.com/2018/06/23/open-source-sustainability/