Nathan Schneider @ntnsndr@social.coop

This has been a big month for the passing of shared ownership pioneers. / John C. Bogle, Founder of Financial Giant Vanguard, Is Dead at 89 https://nyti.ms/2HfBE45

@liw @Greg I gave up on it. Markdown Mode is enough for me.

Interesting case of revenue-based financing for a family business: Five Guys http://www.npr.org/series/490248027/how-i-built-this

Is anyone here involved in the Aragon co-op effort?

https://forum.aragon.org/t/community-initiative-aragon-cooperative/356

https://forum.aragon.org/t/aragon-cooperative-membership-thread/463/6

@Matt_Noyes So glad to hear this! Sorry I suck at meetings, but I'd like to help, if there's something discrete I can do.

@Matt_Noyes @cs @appleseed @natstein I'm not surprised, I have to say. Same thing is happening in Denver. Porting the natural-foods grocery co-op model to food deserts strikes me as unlikely. If grocery stores could make money there, corporate ones would. Those conditions, I suspect, require a different kind of model (like a buying club or something similarly low-overhead).

@tbeckett @mattcropp @ntnsndr I just wrapped one up: https://coloradocoops.info/radio/

@matslats I don't work on software, I focus more on business models and financing. But see the @platformcoop consortium's development kit, led by Trebor.

@tbeckett who needs hierarchy when there are Forms

@daviding @Matt_Noyes you can solve both relative cleanly with Cloudron (email server and app management) + NextCloud (calendars, contacts, files). Works fine across several devices. Even easier with a $25/year mayfirst.org membership. https://mayfirst.org/en/member-benefits/

Dang this essay is good. https://www.currentaffairs.org/2018/12/can-the-working-class-speak

@Matt_Noyes @GeorgeCheney Darn I so much wish I could make the trip!

@emi thanks so much for having it!

@Matt_Noyes how can we get it in English???

@Matt_Noyes what???

@clayton I guess Purism is almost there but not quite? https://puri.sm/learn/freedom-roadmap/

@Matt_Noyes @tbeckett @clayton @cooler_ranch Yep. Same with Elevations.

It was pulling teeth to get even one credit union leader to take the time to attend the Colorado Shared Ownership Summit. I'd say join the closest one to you and run for the board and take it over.

I love the respect for students as network agents in this talk by @erinroseglass -- there is so much here. http://www.erinroseglass.com/designlarge-talk-networks-us-us/