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Bunk Computer Cooperative

Hello, world! We are Bunk Computer Cooperative -- a worker-owned technology #coop in Western North Carolina. We're building local computing infrastructure that's of and for Western #northcarolina

We're still getting off the ground, but we've been hard at work the last eight months and we're ready to introduce ourselves. We wrote an #introduction blog post that you can read at the link in our bio, and we'd be thrilled if you did! Boosts Appreciated!

Yours in bits and bytes,
Bunk Cooperators

a photograph of the Bunk Computer Cooperative members peaking over the tops of their laptops. Above their heads is the Bunk Computer Cooperative logo
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Commons Network

Inclusive decision-making is crucial for organisations that share ownership - but how do we organise collectively? (1/5)🧵

In cooperatives and other collectively managed enterprises, members put to question the traditional hierarchical governance structures that most of us are used to – with bosses or managers taking the lead and making final decisions.

Cooperatives highlight the need for equal decision-making! They present an alternative to the currently dominating traditional hegemonic economic practices that prioritise central control.

🔗 Read more: commonsnetwork.org/2025/03/27/

#governance#coop#democracy
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Guruprasad :kubuntu: :arch:

Completed today ✅ #SplitFiction, playing as Mio. This game was awesome and my candidate for #GOTY so far. They’ve taken the ideas from the previous two games (A way our and It takes two - play them if you haven’t already) to a whole new level and the result is a beautiful game that is also so much fun to play. While the pacing could’ve been better in some parts towards the end, I enjoyed every bit of it. I’ll play it again soon as Zoe. Highly recommend! #CoOp #gaming

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Village One Cooperative

We just sent out a newsletter with a bunch of stories from the cooperative ecosystem that caught our attention—find the web version here: village.one/garden/newsletter/

Mentioned in it: @fontstand @limeleaf @101lab @GenoDigital @Greenheart @demnext @bocoup @hostsharing @subvertworld @workers_coop @tazgetroete and more

The photo is from a documentary about the Liberated Broom cooperative, also linked in the newsletter.

A still image from a documentary about the Liberated Broom cooperative. It shows a bunch of women sitting around a table in a meeting situation, possibly in the 70s or 80s, several of them smoking cigarettes and taking notes. Office setting, with closed blinds in the background.
#Genossenschaft#Coop#Cooperative
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Preston Maness

"It is important that we not collapse these differences even while recognizing a set of shared structural forces and logics. This is especially important as non-profits themselves are vulnerable to these structural forces. For example, non-profit organizations continue to feel impacts of the recession in both the increased demands for basic social services as well as the shrinking of government and foundation funding and individual donations. Many small organizations made up of poor and working-class members have dissolved or folded into larger non-profits. A lack of funding has led such groups to give up vital infrastructure and compensated staff positions, but the work continues through volunteer labor, in members' homes or donated space."

— Incite! Women of Color Against Violence: The Revolution Will Not Be Funded, pp. xviii-xix

If non-profits are to serve as a tool for liberation and reconstruction, then they need their own productive forces to call upon for fueling their efforts. Subjugation to capital, be it directly through philanthropic foundations, indirectly through (capitalist) government funding, or even tortuously through individual donors --themselves dependent upon exchanging their labor to capital for the money they donate-- necessarily clips the non-profit's wings. It is always contorting itself upon the whims of capital. Perhaps a partnership between non-profits and co-ops, both worker owned and operated, could serve to foster such a development of productive forces beyond --or at least less hindered by-- the antagonistic ruling capitalist class's reach. In this model, non-profits could serve as a stabilizing foundation upon which less certain co-operative proletarian endeavors could build.

Incite! Women of Color Against Violence: The Revolution Will Not Be Funded (Paperback, 2017, Duke University Press)
#socialism#communism#marxism
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jbz

The most communist FOSS company

｢ Igalia is an open-source consultancy with Spain headquarters focusing on browsers, "client-side web technologies, " and much more. They're the company contracted to work on Servo, the open-source independent browser engine after Mozilla dropped it. So far so good. The company was founded in 2001, and now employs 140 people in 25 countries; they are a pretty big player in the open-source space ｣

thelibre.news/the-most-communi

LibreNews · The most communist FOSS companyLet's immediately acknowledge that the title is lighthearted, and that "communist company" is an oxymoron. The better choice would've been, "which is the most worker-owned, egalitarian, power-structures-free cooperative?", which SEO experts told me was too long of a title. With that said, let me tell you about Igalia and other
#opensource#coop
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Francesco Barresi

Proposta: invece di creare la versione EU di Silicon Valley usiamo questo momento di risveglio digitale per creare una stack tecnologico distribuito e resiliente.

Invece di basare il progresso sulla concorrenza basiamo il progresso tecnologico sulla cooperazione.

Questo distruggerebbe l'egemonia tecnologica USA, perche queste tecnologie verrebbero adottate anche dai paesi dell'Africa, dall'America del sud e tanti altri.

#EU#eustack#technology
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