Notices by Steve Herrick (steve@social.coop), page 24

I discussed social.coop at last night's meeting of #Madison #WorkerCoops, and several people signed up on the spot. Please welcome them!

@ntnsndr Books.

@Matt_Noyes Madison teachers? As in Madison, WI?

@nonlinear This is definitely cool, but I'd be really excited about it if it provided a clear path towards producing a physical book.

@Greg I don't expect it to become a co-op. However, I'm quite impressed that they're releasing their stories under open licenses. That's really positive.

@fabianhjr It is, but I'm pretty sure it's not a *worker* co-op.

@mattcropp Hey, cool (although I got an invalid certificate warning). I'm mulling the idea of a newspaper that would be a source of serious news and would also be a resource for people learning English.

Is there a worker-cooperative news outlet for general news (i.e., not co-op-specific news)? I know about El Tiempo in Buenos Aires, but I'm thinking about English. The closet I can find is WikiTribune, but it's still far from being a co-op.

@Antanicus Umm... I *think* so.

@Angle Supposedly there is, but it's a real chore, and I don't have the time to tinker around like I once did. Also, there are two laptops I'm trying to install on, and they're different enough that I'd have to go through the whole process two separate times.

Well, I tried out Xubuntu and plain Debian, and I have to return to Linux Mint. Not for the eye candy, and not for the multimedia support. It's for the proprietary wifi drivers I need for my old laptops.

It kills me that Xubuntu can reach the Internet during the install, but not after it finishes.

Hey, I don't suppose anyone is coming from Argentina to the US any time soon... are you? If so, would you be willing to bring some books to drop in the US mail?

@johnnymac They're in Local 1473. It's a "statewide local." That strains the definition of "local," but it seems to work.

@cstanhope @linhares It was something that cron added to on an hourly basis, and had been running for well over a year. I'd forgotten all about it. The worst part is that the script that cron ran wasn't even done properly, so those 112 million lines were the same two lines over and over.

Running hourly for a year and a half still comes to nowhere near 112 million, so there must have been some compounding going on.

On a completely different topic, I just discovered an HTML file on my desktop machine with 112 million lines. It took up 10.2 GB.

@johnnymac It follows the Mondragon-Steelworkers model fairly closely, except scaled way down. They only have seven people, whereas both Mondragon and the Steelworkers are accustomed to thinking in terms of tens of thousands. The union committee could literally be a single person.

Wow. I need to proofread my toots better. It wasn't "a worker presentation," it was just a presentation. I think I inserted the work "worker" in the wrong place.

Big event here in Madison last night. A rep from the UFCW gave a worker presentation on unionized worker co-ops, and Wisconsin's first unionized co-op signed its articles of incorporation. It's call Common Good Bookkeeping.

#union #coops #ufcw

@Matt_Noyes Seems rather ironic.

@Matt_Noyes Is there somewhere I can order an epub or PDF version?