Nathan Schneider @ntnsndr

@mayfirst @datatitian @samtoland totally. Great music for working.

@datatitian

@mayfirst now offers memberships for just personal could services.

@risabee that's the internal site. Here's the customer facing one: http://greentaxicooperative.com/

@dixongexpat I do most of my notes and writing in text files, editable with anything via #owncloud sync. For sheets I tend to use CSV because it can be edited in a text editor, though it has limitations

@h no decentralization without decentralized ownership

@mattcropp @samtoland @dixongexpat Ooh, maybe we can sue them. does California have such a statute?

@lucaconti co-ops, duh.

@samtoland @mattcropp

Wow, this is really interesting. Strikes me as akin to Associated Press—a media co-op made up of corporate members. But could be really, really important. On the other hand, it's not clear that there's any actual co-op ownership or governance involved. We might need to mount a campaign against this. I just wrote to Adobe to find out more.

I'm so impressed by this example of a worker using #open #data to hack their almost-#platformcoop. This is from RideAustin: http://www.eosmath.co/2017/06/k-means-clustering-of-rideshare.html

@Canvasian @mattcropp I wonder if there's a way to do more to customize the look/feel of the Mastodon dashboard for our users. @mayel?

Trying to figure out where in my book I can insert a mention of the bull-semen co-op @KeithTaylor just told me about.

@samtoland @pre

Hopefully next year we'll have a book in English on co-op management from this guy: http://ccr.ica.coop/en/daniel-c%C3%B4t%C3%A9-wins-casc-merit-award

@pre @samtoland For better or worse, I find Holyoake's old _History of Co-operation_ has some pretty awesome tips. Like on how to deal with jerks.

@Brongladest welcome!

@samtoland @pre Running the business is something Wolff's book is virtually silent on. It's focused on the purity of a certain political economy, not at all on what kinds of enterprise might a) activate human initative and creativity, b) thrive under market conditions, c) transform those markets to enable more democratic enterprises to thrive as well.

@pre @samtoland I find his fixation on "productive" workers (who somehow do not include custodians and marketers and other necessary contributors) to be profoundly mistaken. And in general the workerist point of view is depressing for anyone who wants to live for anything other than waged labor someday.

@woozle yes, that's a good point, which I should have stressed more. Nevertheless, the potential spending is much larger.

Is the new air-traffic controller privatization scheme a multistakeholder cooperative?
https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2017/06/05/president-donald-j-trumps-principles-reforming-us-air-traffic-control

@samtoland
My favorites are Restakis, _Humanizing the Economy_, and Kelly, _Owning Our Future_.

Stay tuned for mine TK!