Would be nice if FOS phones could be part of shanzhai-culture
2017-08-26T21:39:11Z via Dianara To: Public CC: Followers
Podcast on self-help phone production in China, part of "shanzhai-culture".
http://supchina.com/podcasts/knockoffs-fakes-shanzhai-culture-fan-yang/ (can skip 1st 7min).
Makes me wonder about FOSS consciousness in those folk. Phone-manufacture workers seem like natural allies to Free Open Source hardware movement.
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Could be a good match, yes =)
It would be great ^^'Co-operatives' in Obama-Care reform: left-right common ground
2017-03-27T20:25:20Z via Dianara To: Public CC: Followers
This week after failed effort to repeal the Affordable Care Act, two influential US Republicans list health-co-ops among good alternatives, I find that interesting because co-ops are based on principles found where US left and right meet.
Notice DaLay endorsing Rand Paul on co-ops in NPR.org interview: failed-house-vote-is-a-great-opportunity-for-republicans-former-house-leader-say
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Crystal-ball on Obama-care reform slogans: "co-operative health organizations are democratically owned", and "Co-operatives are fiscally conservative". All co-op policies must ultimately serve the interests of member-owners and members can have very individual interests. So policies standing the test of member support end up being very careful.
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Wouldn't it be nice if lefties and tea-party types could help member-owned co-operatives compete more fairly with non-member owned health insurance? The word "entitlement" has bad press in the US, but stir-in a right to transfer one's government aid into your co-op of choice and maybe it would work. I'd predict comparisons to school vouchers, for better or worse.
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So many critical issues: what is software freedom importance?
2017-03-09T03:17:50Z via Dianara To: Public CC: Followers
I'm hoping there will be audio available for this talk I missed. I've been wondering about the same thing, and am interested in how Karen Sandler of "Software Freedom Conservancy" thought about it:
"There are obviously so many critical issues like hunger and human trafficking that software freedom cannot equal in importance. After struggling for a long time to reconcile ideological rhetoric with this reality, I've concluded that software freedom is a threshold issue. If we hope to solve our biggest social problems, we'll need software and if that software is not free and open, it is much less likely to be effective in the long term. It's become apparent to me that software freedom underlies our ability to effectively solve any social problem." abstract of keynote address at S. Cal. Linux Expo (SCaLE) Sunday, March 5, 2017; https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/15x/speakers/karen-sandler
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Propose ThunderBird's technical restructuring.
2016-04-26T17:09:10Z via Dianara To: Public CC: Followers
Mozzila says Thunderbird architecture-overview design plan is too much for volunteers: 12 wk Mozzila Thunderbird contract . Thanks brainwane@identi.ca @brainwaine
multi-stakeholder co-operatives
2016-04-23T18:21:48Z via Dianara To: Public CC: Followers
Finally! I found someone who shares my worries about multi-stakeholder co-operatives. I think strengths of a co-op structure can be decreased, and the disadvantages increased when they have the problems of a co-operative with multi-stakeholder membership. Andrew Bibby is described at the International Co-operative Alliance (ICA.coop) . And at Bibby's own web site.
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great!
hypothetical FLOS services consortium
If a new consortium of diverse groups wanted to hire professional support for FLOS technologies together, they wouldn't need to be a multi-stakeholder group. They could have a single class of members if they were all consumers of their new shared-services co-operative. Services could be anything consumed by the membership: maybe user support, software configuration and development support, legal support of the FLOS licenses they depend on, or etc..
co-ops, open data and free software
2016-04-22T00:51:08Z via Pumpa To: Public CC: Followers
Today I found an introduction to open data and FOSS by the software.coop: Why Do Open Data and Free Software (FOSS) Make Sense for Co-ops?. I like the way it describes compatibility between cooperative business ethics and some values behind cooperatively developing software.
how FLOS-projects create legal backing
2016-04-17T19:17:12Z via Identi.ca Web To: Public CC:
How might FLOSS project participants organize themselves with legal backing of their particular business or non-profit values?
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Show all 10 repliesA US non-profit must be governed by people who do not directly benefit from its activities. Staff can be reimbursed for work, but not build ownership rights. On the other hand, a co-op serves the mutual benefit of its members. So co-op members own and profit from selected-shared activities.
A technology Freelancers Guide to Starting a Worker Cooperative from the Tech Co-op Network.
shared services co-operatives
It hasn't been easy to find a good short description of a shared services co-operative, but I think it could serve software developers and license holders. For an example, the Maine Electrical Alliance is a shared-services co-op with a practical description of their services to their membership of installation contractors.
tech co-ops could share professional services
Organizations with GNU and FLOS projects could share costs of legal services etc, by forming shared-services co-operatives. For example, lawyers hired by members of the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association (NRECA) share support of/from its co-op bar association.
examples of FLOS project co-ops and docs
2016-04-16T19:45:07Z via Identi.ca Web To: Public CC:
I'm looking for examples of FLOSS project cooperatives and supporting documents. Here's an example I found yesterday: http://techworker.coop
Thanks !JanKusanagi, Yes, it looks like Snowdrift.coop hasn't legally incorporated yet as a consumer-owned co-op, but they have the kind of questions I'm looking at. My short search today also turned up an argument-for-worker-owned-tech .
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We need international open government data principles - http://bit.ly/neL9S4 good to see #okf's global ambitions #ogov #opendatadelib likes this.
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We need international open government data principles - http://bit.ly/neL9S4 good to see #okf's global ambitions #ogov #opendatadelib likes this.
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♻ @appropedia CERN open source hardware, inspired by !Linux, license modeled on GPL. http://bit.ly/oFB7sH !flosspa2011-07-12T04:05:49+00:00 To: Public
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♻ @appropedia CERN open source hardware, inspired by !Linux, license modeled on GPL. http://bit.ly/oFB7sH !flosspaopensource.com shared by delib at 2011-06-23T23:38:58+00:00 To: Public
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Is #Shuttleworth wieghing Oracle OO.o over DocumentFoundation LibreOffice? http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/680#comment-355104@#foss Is Shuttleworth wieghing Oracle OO.o over DocumentFoundation LibreOffice? http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/680#comment-3551042011-06-08T01:17:45+00:00 in Portland, Oregon, United States To: Aaron Toponce, Public
@#foss philosophizing push and pull in code sharing economics http://www.rationalsurvivability.com/blog/?p=31582011-06-07T23:01:17+00:00 in Portland, Oregon, United States To: MarkDilley, Mattis Manzel, Ryan E. Poole, Renata Avila, a(n) person, a(n) person, a(n) person, Leslie Hawthorn, Mel Chua, a(n) person, Patricia Jung, a(n) person, a(n) person, Nick Clark, sandra ordonez, a(n) person, i < 3 the open web, a(n) person, Andrew, Sérgio Renato Rauber Pacheco, a(n) person, a(n) person, The Document Foundation, a(n) person, delib, Meitar Moscovitz, a(n) person, Public
@#collabg Add US pts? Technology for Transparency maps civic engagment technology http://transparency.globalvoicesonline.org
@civicsense The project was not mapping US or Europe. It rather focused on developing and mid-income countries.