Notices by Graham (grahammitchell@social.coop)

I'm looking for information, guidance, organisations, all about the governance of FLOSS. Please boost.

So, it looks like pretty much all of the real world offerings in terms of #coop hosting and digital infrastructure are aimed at the retail market. Fine if I'm buying services as a consumer or a small organisation.
If we are serious about growing the #platformcoop movement don't we need a full blown cooperative cloud service. Could all of these burgeoning tech coops collaborate to create such a thing? Cloud may be a commodity, but it sure looks like it's making a pile of money for Jeff Bezos.

Went to an interesting event last night about solidarity with the Kurdish cooperative movement in and around Rojava. Is there anything on this happening in North America, or anywhere else for that matter?

I'm going to the https://2018.open.coop #platformcoop event in London 26/27 July. I would love to meet up with any #socialcoop people who will be there.

I'll be aiming to talk about https://platform6.coop and P2P crowdsourcing for #coop startups, https://diglife.comand the potential for Cooperation as a Service (CaaS), and looking collaborators, partners and funders 😉

@alcinnz @Antanicus

Yes, protocols over platforms. But platforms are more visible hence the focus. I think it is temporary however, and in due course the emphasis will shift.

What is important is that we have robust cooperative-friendly protocols available to build on.

I don't know where #socialcoop is with respect to its relationship with opencollective, but I spotted the other day that they are incentivising the creation of 'chapters'. Not sure yet how this differs from 'hosts'. https://platform6.coop is looking to use opencollective, and wondering whether there might be scope for cooperation?

Just received the OpenCollective leaderboard email and #socialcoop is number 3 with 20 new backers.