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1. Kit 🍉 (onrust@infosec.exchange)'s status on Saturday, 01-Feb-2025 19:10:00 UTC Kit 🍉

   Final session of day 1 of #FluConf coming up! By Calix (they/them):

   Co-op Cloud: Grow Your Own International Democratic Tech Federation

   Description:

   The Co-operative Cloud is an international, democratic federation with members representing developers, administrators, and users of our system for setting up community technology infrastructure.

   Since 2020, our tools and configuration have been used by worker co-operatives, trade unions, artistic collectives, friend groups, other libre software projects, & home-hosters to provide privacy-supporting, user-empowering platforms to their members and supporters. Co-op Cloud has been used on recycled servers and upcycled laptops as well as traditional "cloud" providers, helping extend the useful life of otherwise-forgotten hardware, & squeeze the most out of cheapest hosting providers' cheapest services.

   In this livestream (hosted on a Co-op Cloud Owncast instance) we'll get into detail on the governance side of Co-op Cloud: the issues we saw with other models of community-building and software maintenance which led us here, our inspirations in building the Co-op Cloud Federation, the resources that have supported us along the way, & some tales of the rough and the smooth of our experiment so far. (...)

   Session link: https://cast.coopcloud.tech/

   • Kit 🍉 (onrust@infosec.exchange)'s status on Saturday, 01-Feb-2025 19:09:58 UTC Kit 🍉

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     Oh and co-op cloud are federated too, in the sense that as a co-op, they connect with other co-ops

     Which in general is good practice: co-ops support other co-ops <3

     #FluConf

   • Kit 🍉 (onrust@infosec.exchange)'s status on Saturday, 01-Feb-2025 19:09:58 UTC Kit 🍉

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     Also Co-operatives UK has a huuuge number of resources related to co-ops and starting a co-op: https://www.uk.coop/resources

     #Coops #FluConf

   • Kit 🍉 (onrust@infosec.exchange)'s status on Saturday, 01-Feb-2025 19:09:58 UTC Kit 🍉

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     Calix discusses librehosters and an inspiration for co-op cloud: https://libreho.st

     #FluConf #Coops

   • Kit 🍉 (onrust@infosec.exchange)'s status on Saturday, 01-Feb-2025 19:09:59 UTC Kit 🍉

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     Calix talks about Co-op Cloud: https://coopcloud.tech/ Very good to see the power of tech co-ops here

     #FluConf #TechWorkers #Coops #TechCoop

   • Kit 🍉 (onrust@infosec.exchange)'s status on Saturday, 01-Feb-2025 19:09:59 UTC Kit 🍉

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     Co-op Cloud is a co-operative.

     Co-ops are an alternative to an approach where a single person -- be it a benevolent dictator, be it just a regular (*) dictator -- ultimately makes all the decisions

     (That, and of course that co-ops are worker-owned, instead of being owned by people who just sit, cash in and 'own' things :ablobcateyeroll: )

     #FluConf

   • Kit 🍉 (onrust@infosec.exchange)'s status on Saturday, 01-Feb-2025 19:10:25 UTC Kit 🍉

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     Tech coops! https://coops.tech

     #TechWorkers #coop

     f repeated this.
   • Kit 🍉 (onrust@infosec.exchange)'s status on Saturday, 01-Feb-2025 19:10:25 UTC Kit 🍉

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     As a decision making process at their co-op, Calix describes the following.

     Decisions can be:

     • Small → you can go ahead based on yr own judgement
     • Medium → you gotta check with the group to make sure there's no objections
     • Large → if any member as a strong objection, they can block it; more info processing & reflection needs to happen

     Calix suggests that this decision making process can be slower than, for example, majority voting, but that that might not actually be a bad thing?

     Some resources on decision making:

     • Seeds for change, Consensus Decision Making: a short guide
     • Autonomic, How we make decisions