Commoning in a pluriverse
https://forum.meet.coop/t/commoning-in-a-pluriverse/1497 - Here we explore the possibility of a new series of #meetcoop #commonshour : a study circle around Vanessa Machado de Oliveira’s 2021 book: *Hospicing modernity - Facing humanity’s wrongs and the implications for social activism.*

The book's challenge:
> to grow up, step up, and show up for ourselves, our communities, and the living Earth, and to interrupt the modern behaviour patterns that are killing the planet we’re part of. . .

Nice thread developing here: FOSS as commons, the centrality of governance in constituting a commons (as distinct from an unregulated common pool) and maintainers as the (neglected) de factor stewards of FOSS commons.

A sidebar: platform commons that run on FOSS software is a whole other game. FOSS commons members are all 'geeks', nominally equal producers in the commons. While platform commons are intrinsically 'multistakeholder'.

I think of #meetcoop for example.
@jenniferplusplus @yala

@sam
Similarly @ #meetcoop. Increasing membership is the need, to increase funding, to increase paid hours, to extend attention to the platform and relationships with members' communities. Paying for infrastructure under commons stewardship is a principle. It's where the 'free contribution, free use' basis of free software commons breaks down - depends too much on privilege and geekdom (not to mention individualism). Does @ntnsndr include this in his new book i wonder?
@Matt_Noyes @mayfirst

#meetcoop 2.0 announcement
https://forum.meet.coop/t/changes-coming-to-meet-coop-please-read/1287/9

#meetcoop migration to v2.0
Final steps now in motion
New operating regime from 30sep2023. Formal announcement to User members soon.
https://forum.meet.coop/t/changes-coming-to-meet-coop-please-read/1287/8

Congratulations to WebTV (Montreal) and Innovation.coop (UK) for stepping into new operational commitments 🙏 Congratulations to the evolution team for hanging in here this past half year (includes social.coop @Matt_Noyes )

Still a federation of coops, still evolving. Still meaning to change the world, one meeting at a time ;-)

@emi
> I'm wondering if there is a place where we can keep feedback about what folks (especially those who are sympathetic and aware of the issue) are finding challenging about switching off of zoom? I would love to have somewhere to compile the reasons I hear.

I'd be happy to open a thread in #meetcoop forum.meet.coop. This is a matter of concern for us, surely.

But - you're in our forum. So maybe you could spin up the conversation there? Anybody can view & contribute.
@bhaugen @Matt_Noyes

@flancian
As promised, a link on Outline, which we'll now use for our #meetcoop handbook
https://docs.getoutline.com/s/guide/doc/guide-7dWGlDrtL7

#meetcoop #commonshour special - Data privacy - TransAtlantic regulatory regimes and migrating meet.coop

Post-session resources are here, including playback link
https://forum.meet.coop/t/evolution-2-a-commons-hour-on-data-privacy-and-regulatory-regimes/1354/12

Do join us in the forum to keep assembling knowhow and strategy on this :)

@p_jo @Wtebbens @dvdjaco

#meetcoop #commonshour special - Infrastructuring thro federating - Building a commons of platform toolspace
Post-meeting resources here, including playback link.
https://forum.meet.coop/t/commons-hour-special-infrastructuring-thro-federating/1362/10

Good discussion opened here, on matters we've been creeping up on for a long time, join us in the forum to go forward?
@p_jo @flancian @bonfire @Matt_Noyes @dvdjaco @Wtebbens @bhaugen @andia @Graham_Mitchell

#meetcoop inviting you into two #commonshour specials next week...

Data privacy - TransAtlantic regulatory regimes and migrating meet.coop
Monday May 22
18:00 London time
https://forum.meet.coop/t/commons-hour-special-data-privacy/1361

Infrastructuring thro federating - Building a commons of platform toolspace
Thursday May 25
17:00 London time
https://forum.meet.coop/t/commons-hour-special-infrastructuring-thro-federating/1362

Both are linked to the planning for meet.coop migrating to a new hosting basis.
https://forum.meet.coop/t/evolution-1-find-a-new-home/1293

Y'all come now!

#documentation #commoning #handbook #meetcoop @danza
Interested in handbook-style documentation for a platform coop or digital commons?
https://forum.meet.coop/t/handbook-evolves-moves-into-outline/1337
Comments on gitBook, Obsidian, Discourse as handbook containers.

meet.coop The Online Meeting Coop is developing a federated relationship with WebTV.coop Montreal. The handbook is intended to support the operational relationship (via protocols) and the ongoing commons-cooperative mission of meet.coop (via mission, vision & principles).

https://voragine.net/link/meet-coop-the-online-meeting-cooperative

Followers of #meetcoop may know the online meeting cooperative is in evolution, and won't continue as it is now.

Changes may be positive. In any case there's a lot of lessons to be drawn for the #platformcoop and coop-commons ecosystem

Read here an interview from our friends at CommonsNetwork: @ThomasDamsko
https://www.commonsnetwork.org/2023/03/21/ups-and-downs-of-a-platform-coop/

Always find it interesting when someone refuses to even considering trying to use an #opensource or decentralized alternative and insists we use the dominant big #tech platform.

In this case, #Zoom rather than #meetcoop (which uses #BigBlueButton)

Why are some people so resistant to using new tools/platforms?

Update on #meetcoop evolution

Good news! Conversations are underway between members of the meet.coop board and representatives of WebTV.coop regarding the transfer of hosting and sys admin for the meet.coop BigBlueButton instance to WebTV.

WebTV has expressed commitment to the mission and continuing operation of meet.coop and to ensuring a seamless continuity of service to users.

Follow updates in our forum here https://forum.meet.coop/t/evolution-1-find-a-new-home/1293.
@danza

@lynnfoster 2of2
Still looking for a self-hosted handbook documentation container for #meetcoop, to replace gitBook. What's admin like on MKdocs?
@bhaugen @ntnsndr

Crowdsourcing 💚
#meetcoop is evolving and as an element of this project we believe it’s important if we can to accumulate & propgate some understanding
https://forum.meet.coop/t/evolution-4-do-the-learning-evolve-the-legacy/1296
Background: https://forum.meet.coop/t/evolution-of-meet-coop-background-and-framework/1292

Are there folks out-here in the broad community with methodological nous and some flexible time, to help us create & carry out an appropriate community learning project? Contributing some gift work to meet.coop’s mission of #formación of movement capability 🙌🔥

Love & solidarity

@J12t @Matt_Noyes
This topic might come up for some attention soon in a short series of #meetcoop #commonshour. Under the rubric of federated infrastructure of digital means in the commons. Watch this space 😳. See this for now https://social.coop/@mike_hales/109931986056084344

#federating across digital #infrastructure in the #commons? Thread opened in #meetcoop forum as a potential dimension of meet coop evolution
https://forum.meet.coop/t/federating/1310

It links to a presentation
https://bbb.de.meet.coop/playback/presentation/2.3/40d8061c1d67efe88481e8460e0bdc13ffe708b6-1677062902711

#federation as an evolutionary move for #meetcoop?

There's a #commonshour presentation (in BigBlueButton of course - the only FLOSS meeting platform where you can do this kind of recording, animation and interactive playback). Here
https://bbb.de.meet.coop/playback/presentation/2.3/40d8061c1d67efe88481e8460e0bdc13ffe708b6-1677062902711

Come into our forum and help us explore this?
https://forum.meet.coop/t/evolution-1-find-a-new-home/1293/26