neil @neil@social.coop
Go slow and fix things.
Joined Sep 2017
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Happy to be part of the Compassion Through Algorithms II compilation of algorithmic music from the more northerly parts of England, standing with the Black Lives Matter movement
https://lightentries.bandcamp.com/album/compassion-through-algorithms-vol-ii
Looking forward to taking back control with Netscape Communicator 4
Looks like a good webinar, about community wealth building and doughnut economics, with Kate Raworth, and Matthew Brown (of Preston City Council)
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Feminist Economics is one of the core principles on which DisCOs are based. Our economy should recognise the value of care and unpaid work. We need to view vulnerability as a fact of life.
#DisCOElements #feministeconomics #carework #valuesovereignty #radicaltech #opencoop #platformcoop #commons #dlt #distributedledger #blockchain #DAO #decentralized #distributed #P2P #distributedcoop #cyberpunk #radicaldemocracy #CAT #communityalgorithmictrust
A view of the Lake District from Ulverston, the peaks have a bit of sugar on top at the moment.
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For anyone interested in the history of RiseUp.net, one of the oldest community-hosting collectives using and recommending exclusively free code software, here's a 2020 interview with some of the collective members:
https://pramen.io/en/2020/06/interview-with-riseup-tech-collective/
Note the comments on the role of Indymedia in their genesis and growth.
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Automattic has a pretty cool job going for work on integrating WordPress with matrix. They're looking for someone capable of working on multiple programming languages, especially PHP and JavaScript.
https://automattic.com/work-with-us/matrix-integrations-engineer/
#jobs #SituationsVacant #NowHiring
#Automattic #WordPress #matrix
Time-tracking seems to be an important part of #DisCOs. Or at least Guerrilla Media Collective's implementation of it.
https://wiki.guerrillamediacollective.org/Clockify
I seem to have an ingrained antipathy towards fine-grained time-tracking so it'll be good to read about its utility here - the main one being transparency and ensuring all work is recognised I think.
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Granted, it's a pretty broad category, but who do you look to for commentary on 'the impact of technology on society'?
🎄 Boosts appreciated!
"For all their disruption, the one thing Silicon Valley has not touched is the ownership and governance structure of a typical capitalist firm."
– The DisCO Elements
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I just deployed this change yesterday so it's live at https://karrot.world
Next step is custom defined types, which is actually already needed coded.
What would be great is to have input from people/groups that might like to use it for stuff like community gardens, bike kitchens, mutual aid groups, food rescue..
Karrot provides democratic membership empowerment* + communication + task co-ordination features.
* to avoid saying "management"!
Currently reading:
- How we built community wealth in Preston
- Platforming Equality: policy challenges for the digital economy
- The DisCO Elements
Lovely image of the coop principles, I like the old school chalkboard look.
Came across it in DisCO Elements, originally seems to be from here: https://www.willystreet.coop/pages/seven-cooperative-principles
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🎄 Happy Christmas from the Git Portal team (of two!). 🎄
Here's a present from Miikat - Git Portal has a whole new look.
See: https://safenetforum.org/t/safenetwork-git-portal-discussion/32793/127?u=happybeing
#p2p #gitportal #git #tailwindcss #svelte #github #christmas
In the midst of newsletter fatigue, I must say, @disco_coop make a great newsletter.
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Free Software and two forms of liberty
I've set up a basic automatic photo sync from my phone to NextCloud.
Chuffed to get that working.
I struggled in the past with photo syncing via syncthing for that some reason I've forgotten now, and it made me have to stick with Google Photos.
Still a few things to tweak, but good to have ditched Photos.
Go slow and fix things.
Joined Sep 2017
