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 @J12t you can just start a California coop. Non-residents can be members. For #CoSocialCa we restrict membership to Canadian residents because most privacy, copyright, consumer protection etc. laws apply nationally. It's hard enough to run a good service domestically without having to deal with remote members. But different coops have different needs. 6 comments
 WA state per advice of our lawyer, Michael Droke, who wrote this book Cooperative Business Law: A Practical Guide to the Special Laws Governing Cooperatives https://a.co/d/9tCi7z5 Looking forward to reading more about @HelloCoop 's employee member class for our international worker cooperative @agaric, and more about the user member class for Drutopia #LibreSaaS websites cooperative! (Sounds like most of the complexity is for investors, which is vital for many but probably isn't in the cards for us.) Are there public bylaws or similar for hello.coop? (What do people or organizations looking to join get shown?) |
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@evan Are you certain about out-of-state (out-of-country?) members? I seem to have read something in the statute that sounded very much it was an in-state only thing under california state law, but then I'm not a lawyer and have not spent much time on it yet.