Platform Cooperativism. This movement has been coalesced over 4 years of events led by Trebor Scholz and Nathan Schneider and sponsored by the New School in NYC. The last two events being: http://digitallabor.org http://platformcoop.net I got involved with Platform Cooperativism as a speaker and I spoke last in NYC at this event: http://platformcoop.net/participants/micky-metts I presented at the event on the nuts and bolts of my coop - how we are structured and earn $ and how we get paid etc. (my segment is on the timeline @ 50:00) http://livestream.com/internetsociety/platformcoop/videos/105663835 and I also speak in an interview at the conference: https://vimeo.com/150036963 Another interview at the Platformcoop conference with me and Janelle Orsi (a lawyer with http://theselc.org) is featured on the Laura Flanders show http://www.lauraflanders.com/?video=MQaY3cONV7g I also have a chapter in a forthcoming book on Platform Cooperativism and I am involved in discussions on how to start/help/continue in building the platforms we need to own. Your voice is welcome and needed! Here is the start of a list of platform projects in progress now: http://internetofownership.net/wiki/platforms

1. Building the tools for the future

2. It is hard to convince people that it matters what code runs on their
devices, in their bodies, and for services they use from the cloud.
Richard Stallman has been working on this for decades. I have this
50 minute presentation and more things to cover, so here's a scary
picture.

3. Here a hacked jeep was driven into a ditch.
"Computers and the Internet are everywhere and the
world is increasingly made of them." - Cory Doctrow

4. Dries Buytaert,
http://buytaert.net/winning-back-the-open-web
Winning back the open web

6. Tech co-ops are usually development shops
that build customized tools using technology.
Platforms are the tools used by the public,
members or anonymous users.

8. TechWorker.coop
What is it?

10. ● Collaboration opportunity: organizing the larger network for
greater awareness, co-marketing, referrals, etc.
● Collaboration opportunity: identifying collaboration
opportunities between individuals and coops, or among
coops (hiring/joining/time-sharing, overflow work)
● Collaboration opportunity: skill sharing/training
● Collaboration opportunity: Hacker News for co-ops--a news
aggregation community collecting articles and soliciting
questions
Collaboration Opportunities for Cooperative Development

14. Drupal and Coops
The Drupal community is an excellent model of
cooperation in action.
What are some examples of cooperation that exist within
your community?
http://drupal.org
And the Drupal community -
http://groups.drupal.org

16. Platform Cooperativism
This movement has been coalesced over
4 years of events sponsored by the New
School in NYC.
The last two events being:
http://digitallabor.org
http://platformcoop.net

18. The idea of platform cooperativism has been
spreading around the world.
Trebor Sholz's primer -
http://platformcoop.net/platform-cooperativism-by-trebor-scholz
is being translated into Chinese, French,
German, Italian, and Portuguese.

19. http://platformcoop.net/participants/micky-metts
I presented at the event on the nuts and bolts of my coop - how
we are structured and earn $ and how we get paid etc. (my
segment is on the timeline @ 50:00)
http://livestream.com/internetsociety/platformcoop/videos/10566383
and I also speak in an interview at the conference:
https://vimeo.com/150036963
Another interview at the Platformcoop conference with me and
Janelle Orsi (a lawyer with http://theselc.org) is featured on
http://www.lauraflanders.com/?video=MQaY3cONV7g

21. A book about Platform Cooperativism is due to be published
soon, I am one of the authors with a chapter in a forthcoming
book on the subject and I am involved in discussions on how to
start/help/continue in building the platforms we need to own. An
example would be an Uber owned by the drivers.
Your voice is welcome and needed!
Here is the start of a list of platform projects:
http://internetofownership.net/wiki/platforms
The Book

22. News and Resources
Articles about cooperatives
http://www.thenews.coop/
The Guardian - http://bit.ly/1s83iyE
The ecologist - http://bit.ly/1oaxYyt
http://shareable.net/blog/how-to-start-a-worker-co-op
Worth a listen: "Tech Cooperatives: A Better Way to Make a Living"
http://schedule.sxsw.com/2012/events/event_IAP9313 with Jack Aponte of
http://palantetech.com
Starting a cooperative
http://banyanproject.coop/starting-a-news-co-op
tech-coop@npogroups.org -the best tech-worker-coop-related mailing list that i know of
http://npogroups.org/lists/info/tech-coop
http://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/workercoop/info
http://www.techworker.coop/
My Projects and Interests:
LibreBoston.org
Agaric.com
PowerToConnect.org
VoipDrupal.org

23. Micky Metts ~ FreeScholar
Chris Thompson ~ Wolcen
micky@agaric.com
chris@agaric.com