Notices by Steve Herrick (steve@social.coop), page 25

@gdorn Time for a unionized worker co-op!

@Gargron I have no use for a teacup. A coffee mug, on the other hand, would be cool.

@neil @jdaviescoates It's all but unknown on this side of the pond. IIRC, the next edition is about racial justice, which makes it even more relevant than it already was. Pondering ways I could help increase distribution.

@h Still with us?

Today's soundtrack is The Crooked Fiddle Band. Officially, they play Roma-influenced folk music, but the members clearly listened to a lot of heavy metal growing up.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLazN5lIuMfUbV0CF8tO49ORZ1K1VZal_q

@kavbojka @mayel There are only five of us, and I'm the only one with the skills or time to do that, but I do too much unpaid work already. That said, I did used to create our local co-op association's newsletter. It was in the form of a poster the different co-ops could hang up, and most of them did.

@kavbojka @mayel Transparency for us means a lot of email. We try to meet in person, but it's hard to make our schedules line up. (Our co-op is a second job for everyone.) I'd be happy to add more communication channels, but when I've tried in the past, people haven't used them.

@Gargron jeez you don't dox the abyss what were you thinking

@medusa If you get that job, I'll come be your assistant.

@kavbojka @mayel My co-op is in exactly that position. But in our case, the person with too much institutional knowledge is me. I've gone out of my way to be transparent at every step, but the only time people respond is when they complain.

@nowplaying While this is a great jam, I'm not counting on the men who hold high places for anything.

@mayel Been there.

@gilscottfitzgerald Likewise, I am not 38% fluent in German.

@ntnsndr @mayfirst @Matt_Noyes Interesting. I'm thinking about doing exactly for the co-op I'm organizing. My first one is firmly locked in to Google, and I want to avoid that this time around.

@mayel @ekaitz_zarraga @aral @ntnsndr @mattcropp @h I can't wait to take that survey!

@ntnsndr 😠

@h It's true that he projects, and he also expects people to keep up with him, and gets annoyed when they don't. When I was translating his books, I gave serious thought to doing considerable rewriting to sand down some of the rough edges.