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Funes

@blogdiva are there any examples of software owned/maintained by a cooperative? Would love to look into some as case studies.

14 February at 23:23 | Wall-to-wall | Open on infosec.exchange
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Funes
Zack Weinberg

@funes @ltlnx @blogdiva I would not recommend using Debian as a model; their decision making processes historically have led to endless flamewars and the rule of the loudest. (Their *development* process has historically worked very well at shielding users from the screaming on the mailing lists — until fairly recently I would have recommended Debian over all other Linux distros, for any use — but this is no longer true, and I think it mainly worked as long as it did because most of the time, most individual DDs could ignore each other and the screaming. That's not gonna work for a monolith like a web browser.)

@funes @ltlnx @blogdiva I would not recommend using Debian as a model; their decision making processes historically have led to endless flamewars and the rule of the loudest. (Their *development* process has historically worked very well at shielding users from the screaming on the mailing lists — until fairly recently I would have recommended Debian over all other Linux distros, for any use — but this is no longer true, and I think it mainly worked as long as it did because most of the time, most...

15 February at 0:14 | Open on hackers.town
trystimuli

@funes @blogdiva there’s loomio - source code on github. most tech worker cooperatives seem to do consulting.

another model might be a multi-stakeholder cooperative, which would also include people who use the software as owners/members, but i don’t have any ready examples of that model.

15 February at 0:02 | Open on fedi.imu.li
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justforfun

@funes @blogdiva
Funny you should ask, I just learned about @Codeberg today and I hope they can weigh in on their structure in more detail it does more closely resemble a co-operative than a non-profit. I also like that they are transparent in how much funds they have to continue operations (12 years) and that all seems to be member supported. I often find that folks are critical when opens source projects have fees instead of relying 100% volunteer effort; I don’t think that’s sustainable.

15 February at 3:12 | Open on fosstodon.org
left-wing math nerd

@justforfun @funes @blogdiva @Codeberg they don’t charge for use of their service.

They take donations and have a €24/year membership fee to become a voting member docs.codeberg.org/getting-star

15 February at 6:50 | Open on mastodon.sdf.org
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