It’s the 1 year anniversary of social.coop! ? ?
A cooperatively-run corner of the fediverse.
Who can imagine what the next year will bring? Can’t wait to find out!
Interesting article on the tech choices behind CommonsCloud.
http://freeknowledge.eu/article/making-of-commonscloud-technical-choices
(CommonsCloud is a platform coop combining Discourse, NextCloud and Phabricator. They’re trying to build an online collaboration platform for the solidarity economy.)
Did my first parkrun today – http://www.parkrun.com/
Really cool to get out in the park with like 150 other people from your community and go for a run.
It’s all free and volunteer organised too, I love it.
Just saying, nomadic identity and cloning, these are smart ideas:
“Nomadic identity means true ownership of online identity. With Hubzilla, you don’t have an account on a server, you own an identity that you can take with you across the grid. You can clone a channel across multiple hubs for resilience against network failures or censorship, or you can completely move a channel from one hub to another, taking your data and connections with you.”
Kudos to #Hubzilla on that.
Resist and build.
Great interview with David Bollier on the commons (natural, urban, digital), commoning, re-recognising the value in things that sit outside of market economics and exchange value. (Contains the bombshell that apparently 20% of the human genome has already been enclosed and patented. WTF?!)
In general, how do you become a member of a housing coop? (And more specifically, how in the UK? Anyone with experience of doing so?)