All of the movies are creative commons or public domain titles, embedded from either PeerTube or Archive.org. (There are no YouTube titles due to YT's invasive privacy policies.)
The selection is still very small as we've just started, and we're trying to avoid the "firehose" approach of archive.org.
Post a reply if you have suggestions for films to be added.
@mayel@strypey there was a cobudget setup for cotech at the last annual retreat - not sure of it's current status --> https://fund.coops.tech/ I'll do a bit of digging
Some funds from this pot could also be donated upstream, to the developers of free code packages that the tech cooperatives use in their work, both comercial and pro bono.
I'm particularly intrigued by the way Outlandish use CoBudget to > "put surplus profit into a central pot and assign funds to pro bono projects
I wonder if this could work on a larger scale? What if a global network of ethical tech cooperatives used a shared CoBudget instance to pool some funds in a central pot, and decide together how to distribute this as funding for pro bono work?
“They turn the everyday ability to solve a problem into a rarefied practice, limited only to those who self-consciously follow a specialized methodology. In fact, problem-solving is always messy and most solutions are shaped by political agendas and resource constraints. The solutions that win out are not necessarily the best—they are generally those that are favored by the powerful or at least by the majority. Both rational experimentation and design thinking provide cover for this political calculus. They make a process that is deeply informed by social and economic structures seem merely technical or aesthetic.”
As in not paid work, house work, child-rearing, or anything else expected of women at the time. Most schools closed. Bank execs ended up working teller positions. Flights got cancelled because flight attendants didn't show up
It is definitely not an easy challenge. Capitalism has set things up to coerce us into submission. I personally want to find a balance between plain survival, finding temporary hacks around the fringes, and helping build long term alternatives.
Insofar as Ive followed Solid, it bugged me to see little to no mention of other attempts to (re)decentralize the web. But the technical side of it is very interesting.
Now, to see it take a dive into capitalist rhetoric and VC funding, I hope it crashes and burns.
"a free market of fair return for value would stimulate innovation"
"thrive by delivering products and services that consumers actually want"
"anyone with an idea and the energy to work hard can prosper"
I don't think the two are incompatible though. Looks at WordPress or Moodle for example, rather than having a proprietary centralized service with which you might make a bit of income by offering premium features (and all development lies on your shoulders), you can have an ecosystem:
- your hosted service, with both free and premium offerings - contributors making improvements or adding features to core codebase - you can offer paid custom development / customization - others can offer paid custom development / customization and hosted services - people can self-host their own
Of course all of this is made all the more worthwhile of you use AGPL (so all improvements are contributed back) and why not ActivityPub