Sam Toland @samtoland@social.coop

@Matt_Noyes Ooh, I was just looking for more info on Eroski (esp. the role of consumer ownership in the network). Have a favorite source?

Well this is cool! Using the #reMarkable, I uploaded some PDFs of fillable #dnd character sheets.

I only have the name “Cudgel” written in, but experimenting, I can add multiple layers, and then hide or show layers.

So... infinitely re-usable sheets.

Don’t know if I can copy a layer’s content, and I can’t copy pages of a PDF, so need to do a little more experimenting.

@samtoland

Agreed, think there is especially a lot of potential for mutual exchanges of services with no financial transactions.

Here is some explanation of what I mean from an article about data coops:

https://coop.exchange/blog/e1803df3-0e40-11eb-b74d-06ceb0bf34bd/one-of-the-world-s-most-cited-computer-scientists-wants-cooperatives-to-be-the-future-of-how-data-is-owned

Anyone one interested in doing English-Spanish language exchange? Native English speaker looking for a native Spanish speaker.

Escucho para intercambio Inglés-Español. Soy hablante de Inglés nativo escuchando para un hablante de Español nativo.

The 2nd part of our the DisCO Elements serialisation on Hackernoon is out!

"Socio-economic instability also provides opportunities for radical innovations & solutions based on human trust. DisCOs can address the present & looming future crises by creating bottom-up resilience & restoring our relationships - both to one another and the planet."

https://hackernoon.com/distributed-tech-commons-coops-and-feminist-economics-the-disco-lowdown-l7t35oq

DisCO Principle #5. CENTERED ON CARE WORK.

DisCOs are living entities reflecting the values of its members which need care and attention to mantain their health and the well-being of the persons working there.

Get your free copy of the DisCO Elements here: https://elements.disco.coop

I just published a new post that has been ~10 years in the making.

It's about my falling in and out and in love with social justice activism, offering a critique of the fundamentalist currents that can take hold in social movements.

https://richdecibels.substack.com/p/8-metamodern-social-justice

The Metsä Group coop, owned democratically by over 100 000 ordinary forest owners, will make the largest investment in the history of Finnish forestry industry to Kemi, a remote town in economic trouble. Forestry is the largest export industry in the country.

The coop produces 16% of Finlands renewable energy, more than anyone else.

Meanwhile the two other major forestry companies, both conventional capitalist firms, are outsourcing their operations abroad.

Can anyone give recommendations for co-op branding agencies?

Too often coops are seen primarily as a last resort to save what is dying - saving factories or local newspapers that are closing.

That's good, we should put at least as much focus on creating coops in fields that are in their infancy - apps, online shops, data economy, etc.

seeking #recommendations for an (app, system, document-format, whatever!) for doing local power mapping; i have a few different use cases in mind (political/solidarity-economy) and i'm hoping to find a reusable tool that is amenable to collaboration. open-source and privacy-minded are nice-to-haves but ease of use (both data entry and reading/consuming) is important.

Equity-Free Fundraising: Here are our Revenue-Share Term Sheets https://ioo.coop/2020/01/equity-free-fundraising-here-are-our-revenue-share-term-sheets/

Newly updated in the http://ioo.coop/directory: @Fairbnb_coop@twitter.com is open for business!

My goal is to read 30 non-fiction books this year.

Any recommendations?

Anyone has similar goals, should we revitalise the Social Coop reading group?