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nds where the community of operational members comes together circle protocol includes check in and check out around the circle the coop s online forum is used to prepare meetings user members members have been signing up week on week and in march 2021 100 members had joined it s a matter for celebration to reach this number so quickly and especially the quality of the members members include many actors from the social and solidarity economy care coops regional food coops worker coops housing coops etc municipalist initiatives in cities and regions ngos civil society movement organisations activists for privacy planet free culture and free software and open source groups and businesses startup phase sweat equity building up a platform requires serious upfront investment and the fact that bbb is free software doesn t make that disappear in addition to software development for server admin engineering and infrastructure maintenance there s lots of work on branding product development communication weaving networks organisation legal aspects etc the current phase is called sweat equity as there s only limited income to compensate the team s work every quarter there s a distribution meeting where operational members vote how much of the financial contribution is distributed to each of the team members making a claim and there s a compensation framework that defines how staff can claim and how the process takes place it s a flexible framework evolving quarter by quarter however the road to fair wages is only just begun we mean to reach fair wage some time next year until then operational members continue to contribute with some sweat sweat a big shoutout to colleagues from open coop hypha collocall femprocomuns melissa mcnab mike hales simplysecure webarchitects collective tools autonomic platform6 digital life collective and many others who have actively contributed to make this happen multistakeholder governance in the first year operational members have been up front launching a working service and with work hours available to do only priority stuff for minimum viable product effectively it s been a workers coop this raises questions about involvement by the community of user members and meeting the needs that they actually find they have as users out there in the coop commons economy some kind of multistakeholder governance is needed where both kinds of members cooperate effectively in stewarding this digital commons below image represents three well known but different models it s a challenge for the coming year we re working on an approach through a monthly multistakeholder gathering to be called commons hour it s intended to give us a constitution a process for a distributed general assembly a coop handbook and a regular multistakeholder live forum watch this space collaborative toolstack for a distributed team we need collaborative tools that work well enough for all participants to be effective contributors we start from rich and nati s from thehum recommended trinity of digital communication tools for decentralised teams 1 synchronous communication online meetings or chat in real time 2 asynchronous communication threads for exploring and deliberating and 3 information archive or repository of documents library handbook faqs in reality often more than just three tools are needed but we re seeking a balance that avoids overload of channels interfaces and information the back office toolstack that operational members use is more diverse and specialised than the front office toolstack that we provide on the public platform for user members over time we need to discover whether users would benefit from more of that kind of complexity and whether the operational labour is available to support it we do dogfooding we use our own tech to run our own organisation meet coop s online meeting servers are an obvious key channel for synchronous video communication for small meetings circle meetings all hands or larger gatherings additionally we use matrix instant messaging for text communication among operational members the main public matrix room is meet coop matrix org working across five or six hours of timezone and each team member on various projects and tasks makes a pragmatic modus operandi necessary with asynchronous collaboration and a repository for shared documents asynchronous communication uses a discourse text based threaded forum forum meet coop anyone member or not can create an account and join the open community and document repository uses nextcloud nextcloud also gives us a team calendar a task tracker and collaborative authoring additionally logging of operational hours is done on a kimai timetracker server collaboration could get a whole lot better for one thing nextcloud is not brilliant as a way of presenting documentation to the outside world or even within the operational community it s hard to get an overview of the repository and the web interface isn t the greatest for collaborative editing more thinking to do here some kind of online wiki or handbook space might handle some of this free code we only use free as in freedom software in the operational and user toolstacks the deployment of servers is automated using ansible scripts in our gitlab repository https gitlab com meet coop grafana and prometheus are used for server monitoring https grafana com oss prometheus free culture free knowledge knowledge sharing happens in myriad ways and it is a considerable challenge to organise processes and tool usage optimally first there are legal aspects all participants in meet coop agree to share and contribute their work to a knowledge commons regulated by the licensing policy in the terms of use article 5 intellectual property intellectual property law states that authors have exclusive rights to their work by default at the online meeting cooperative we want the contrary all knowledge generated and published as public information in the free services available to the entire user community is by default considered to be published under free licenses if the opposite is not explicitly stated read more https www meet coop disclaimer second there is effective practical skill using the collaborative toolstack to enable others to learn help and contribute to the knowledge commons and third there is operational transparency we should document our knowledge and practices of deliberation and production in such way that others can join in at any stage many discussions have a long history so making this process transparent and providing accessible entries should help new people to join in when they can and want to contribute this is not so much a matter of tools although for example search and tags can help but of facilitation and curating of documentary media stigmergy is an inspiring concept drawn from self organising principles from ant colonies and how they leave traces for others to pick up tasks and contribute to the collective key areas include knowledge of bbb knowledge of tools uses and operational characteristics knowledge of organisational practices knowledge of cooperative economy a culture of solidarity of mutual support sharing of knowledge goes hand in hand with a culture of solidarity and community mutual help meet coop aims to encourage and enable its members to connect with and help each other bringing about social change requires tremendous collective effort at many levels and from many perspectives providing an online meeting service could be seen as simply a technical service just another zoom like platform but we see it as as an opportunity to develop civil society movement capability this includes developing practical awareness of many forms of technological economic cultural etc injustice that might be reproduced in our practice and of the change that we want to achieve together and give each other a helping hand to learn care and support there is work to do to bridge various movements that are part of meet coop as users and as workers and develop mutuality take opencollective the platform used by meet coop to receive membership contributions in june 2021 they joined meet coop as members see here we ditched zoom in favor of http meet coop an ethical video conferencing service powered by renewable energy and open source software liveyourvalues this kind of mutuality can be explored between user members too reweaving community life and raising awareness for and build bridges between different social causes we see it as part of our service and our commitment to promote such developments our video meeting infrastructure is an excellent technological platform to do it through multilingual multicultural meet coop has started with a limited language base only the user interface adjusts to the language as selected in the user s browser settings english is still dominant for the most part in media and in live venues at the same time membership is international although global north from the start founding members are from spain sweden canada netherlands germany france britain and user members are from many more places english might be practical for some but does mean a barrier to access and contribution for many non native english speakers we have a colonial language apology that forms part of our approach to live public gatherings we mean to work on multiple language challenges at four levels first media in the forum now all english might have sections in different languages or perhaps automatic translations second the website also in english could be translated third multilingual protocols can be developed in online conferencing currently parallel translator rooms are opened and a protocol for simultaneous translations is followed see the guide here or join this thread this is far from ideal and slows down a session a technical solution for that would be desirable allowing users to choose a language channel in the same room we re on the case although limited in technical development resources and fourth we can develop regional servers current infrastructure is on two continents with servers in canada and germany a mid term aim is to federate with coops in latin america asia and other continents to run meet coop clusters for a more local userbase with different native language protocols privacy privacy is a key value and disregard for privacy on the dominant extractivist platforms has been a driver to build meet coop for example zoom ceo eric yuan shared that zoom will work together with the fbi and local law enforcement in case some people use zoom for a bad purpose micky metts of agaric asks us who determines the meaning of bad purpose so how is privacy and anonymity dealt with at meet coop no user data is sold or shared with third parties this is not our business members must provide only a minimum of personal data to become members an incognito membership view shows the operational team only the member s email address participants in online meetings can choose whatever name they want when joining and can participate in a meeting via the chat and shared notepad without sharing webcam or audio when a session host activates recording in their room this is visible to participants there is no active collaboration with law enforcement and only under legal obligation will there be the minimum collaboration necessary to comply with the law more information is in the privacy policy ecology meet coop is committed to support transition to a zero carbon economy we want all our servers to be powered by renewables and are working to transition away from any services which are not see faqs the aim is to operate the services with minimum environmental impact care feminisation a culture of care means to listen to each other and detect when people are uncomfortable with how things are going people in meet coop take care of each other to facilitate the best possible collaboration and contributions to the collective mission with contribution rather than ownership as the basis of our coop practice including care work the economics of meet coop has taken an intrinsic step of feminisation still the project was born from a male dominated culture of people from the free libre software and open source communities gender balance is something that will take time and persistence to achieve in practice decolonial aims we inherit a legacy specifically in the global north of colonial appropriation and plantation capitalism for the languages we use and the uneven development of wealth power and culture across regions we acknowledge this in our colonial language apology we understand meet coop to be up against and building alternatives to business as usual more power creates more profits and more profits creates more power inequality ensures companies get richer and more influential while everyday people wield less and less power quoted from https datacapitalism d4bl org an ethical and economic alternative we ve sketched here the main features of how meet coop has started to develop an ethical alternative to dominant capitalist online meeting platforms in the first year a good enough platform has been built it needs improvements but is already in use by over 100 members members put our platform to work in diverse social movements and causes and branches of solidarity economy of which meet coop incorporates many values our commitments include sociocratic organisation p2p digital commons and free culture sharing knowledge freely and providing mutual support the cooperative tradition in social and solidarity economy with a challenge to design a distributed multistakeholder governance practice for digital infrastructure protection of privacy servers powered on renewable energy a conscious and careful combination of care work and livelihood work and social justice we mean to build a platform that strengthens members in their capacity to make social change collaborative economy sharing search for recent posts digital commons in the city the case of barcelona fki is back and wishes everybody a great 2022 meet coop online meetings based on shared values la comunificadora is back with some new challenging projects our little grain of sand to opencoop 2018 recent comments archives february 2022 january 2022 july 2021 december 2018 august 2018 june 2018 may 2018 april 2018 march 2018 january 2018 november 2017 october 2017 june 2017 march 2017 february 2017 december 2016 november 2016 october 2016 july 2016 june 2016 may 2016 march 2016 november 2015 october 2015 september 2015 june 2015 april 2015 july 2014 september 2013 july 2013 june 2013 april 2013 december 2012 july 2012 june 2012 may 2012 march 2012 january 2012 december 2011 october 2011 august 2011 july 2011 may 2011 march 2011 january 2011 october 2010 june 2010 may 2010 january 2010 november 2009 october 2009 september 2009 july 2009 may 2009 april 2009 march 2009 february 2009 december 2008 november 2008 october 2008 july 2008 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