I've been very much focused on organising on a local/level within Ireland the last few years, after first really becoming a co-operator within the international movement through involvement in a #platformcoop.
Discussing with some other cooperators about acting more internationally (outside of the more established institutions like ICA etc.) and I though about trying to gather a list of online spaces (such as social.coop) where we gather.
Anyone fancy chipping in?
Recording of #RebuildBetterTogether conference in Ireland - celebrating international day of co-operatives.
@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?
📢 Nextcloud Notes is a self-hosted app you can enable on your #Nextcloud instance and download on your mobile to store and manage notes 📝
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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.
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:
Does #Mastodon have auto-delete features yet?
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."
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.
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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.
How is everyone on #socialcoop ?! :)
I've seriously cut down my social media use these days, and the extent to which I am on social, I'm on Twitter (as my Irish co-op network hasn't made it over here).
But missing all the #platformcoop vibes that's for sure. Any big #socialcoop news in the last year?
Wishing everyone well.
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.
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