Hey,
I’m Lucca. Im a UX Designer and Researcher. Currently working on an app about self-governance and decision-making. We are volunteer run. I’m also part of a small non-profit in the social economy sector, and very keen to learn from other techy how to align my job skills and human values further.
Gladly connect!
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Hi
Ralex here, from Mexico, former Vientos Coop co-founder and main developer. (Web PlatformCoop to encourage collaboration (economic and intellectual) locally between activist groups and projects)
Looking for a better social impact of my programming skills and a better opportunity to support myself and my family, I’m now offering my dev skills globally, either for a ~30hrs per week job, or for consulting dev sessions, optimization, automatization, bug fixes, brainstorming, system architecture, migrations, etc.
If you know of a social high impact project that may need my skills, or other networks/groups/website/forums like this one where I can offer my work, please let me know or feel free to share it.
Where my passion and skills intersect is on: Data Visualization and Sistematization, specifically I love working with geo data and 3D map interaction (here is an example: Indigenous Languages in Mexico) and UX for Solidarity Economy and Community Building.
Here is my web portfolio and I’m attaching my CV as pdf.
And Iḿ listing here my main skills, favorite frameworks and main interests
Skills:
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Fullstack web development
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Database management (SQL and MongoDB)
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DevOps and SRE
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UX Design
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Agile / Scrum Project Management
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Linux Server Management
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Containerization
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Cloud services
Frameworks
- Backend
- NodeJS / MongoDB / MySQL / Graphql
- Frontend
- React / Svelte / Angular
- DevOps
- Docker / Linux server / Kubernetes / CI / CD
- Workflows
- Scrum / Pair programming / Sociocracy
Interests
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OpenSource and OpenKnowledge
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Data Visualization
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GeoMapping
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Education
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Permaculture
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Cooperativism
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Veganism
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Community Networking
Feel free to contact me through any mean and to share my CV with other impact networks or fellows.
Thanks in advance, ( ^_^)/*
Ralex! 
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Hello!
I’m Tessa, I had a great time meeting lots of you yesterday at the Autumn Assembly! I’m not in a coop but am interested in joining/starting one at some point in the future so looking to learn more about how it all works. I’m an iOS Engineer by trade so especially keen to hear from any co-ops that have or need mobile apps.
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Hello everyone,
I’m Alistair (Ali for short), looking forward to getting to know you all!
We (me and two others) have started Asterisk Labs, a worker-owned research lab. For now we are focused on a climate science project, mainly using satellite data. We have skills in AI and geospatial data and we’re looking forward to engaging more with the Co-tech community!
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Hey everyone,
Mike here, I’m a software developer/contractor based in London. Originally from Cape Town, my wife and I first moved to Amsterdam for a few years and then here to London in 2019.
I’m coop curious but I don’t really have any experience with coops. I made the move from employment to self-employment because I didn’t really like the power dynamics of employee/employer relations.
I’m always looking for better ways of being in the world, including better ways of making a living and contributing to society.
I look forward to discussing, learning from and contributing to the community where I can.
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Hi folks, I’m Ky (they/he) and I’m an activist, designer, and systems & communications strategist based in Ireland. I work for a social change agency that isn’t a worker co-op, but I’m very interested in co-ops. I also volunteer with civil society orgs like Trans Healthcare Action, National LGBTQ+ Federation, and the Professional Association for Trans Health Ireland (PATHI), proving my tech/comms/design skills. I’ve been cultivating an interest in critical tech lately. I’m also starting a Master of Public Health in the fall. Glad to be part of this community!
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Hi there 
I’m Jez (he/him) and I’m just in the process of setting up a consultancy co-op with a few co-conspirators focused on open science/open scholarship policy, strategy and training. The tech overlap is around areas like data science, metadata, information science, research software. Many of us have been burned or burned out by the culture of academic research and the drive to prioritise money & efficiency over things like care, compassion, sustainability and ethics.
Looking forward to getting to know folks here!
All the best,
Jez
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Hi!
My name is Alexander, I’m PhD in Chemistry and I’ve been running a tech CoOp thinking it’s a cool experiment knowing nothing about other people doing same thing for 5 years now. I’m located in Finland.
We’ve fallen on hard times lately and almost all people left (I was bad at finding jobs, jobs were bad at paying us). Now it’s 2 people core team (my wife and I) and 4-ish former members ready to join back if I find something that’ll feed all.
Still even at this scale we are very multidisciplinary team. Lately we’ve done hardware design and manufacturing (yes, in EU), Rust programming, security and blockchain gigs, brewers yeast isolation and propagation, mushroom growing, some geochemistry, and other weird stuff. Before we did sub-10nm lithography before Intel figured it out, helped clean up Fukushima disaster a bit, supported Ukrainian army with some gear. We solve hard scientific and technology problems and make mead in free time.
We are looking for some meaningful projects to spread fun and anarchy and pay for electricity, fuel, winter food, and internet subscription.
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hi, my name’s Carl. I’m a trainer, teacher and learning resource creator these days, but I started as a sysadmin and in the meantime a few other roles too (even a game designer in the Coders for Corbyn days lol). I’m very interested in changing the way IT does things, and elaborating on alternative technologies to make them extremely accessible. Hi all!
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Greetings, I’m mike hales and although I know a bunch of old-stagers here I’m new to this forum. From 2020-2023 I was an operational member of meet.coop (where @chris provides the back-office infrastructure) and I’m a a (user) member of the social.coop mastodon instance. In the context of meet.coop we had the occasional conversation with @shaun and of course @Graham is central in the ongoing operations of the coop. Some people here know me in the fediverse.
I’m getting into a new digital infrastructure initiative, not a coop or an infrastructure provider per se, but rather some kind of federation for digital infrastructure(ing) as a response of resistance to the digital coup that has been achieved by Big Tech. The stakes seem to be so much higher now than ‘just’ encouraging folks to de-Google and use FLOSS tools; or even to go to coop hosting services. The initiative isn’t to be launched just yet, but I posted this week in Mastodon about the Free Knowledge Institute, where @wouter and David Jacovskis from meet.coop/femProcomuns have done stuff for some years. I’ve joined the FKI board.
In this context, even though ‘Europe’ is the focus rather than the UK, it makes no sense to not be in closer touch with the UK community that hangs out here in CoTech. Hello again Love & solidarity / mike
PS: Among other things I’m deeply interested in pattern languages (as ways of holding practical wisdoms) and in federated wiki, a powerful move (by the same ingenious programmer/problem-definer, Ward Cunningham) beyond what we all have come to expet of wikis. I was first mover in a hosting service for federated wiki - wiki.cafe - which one day will be a coop and meanwhile has some helpfully demanding users who are putting fedwiki to work in collaboration at moderate scale.
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I’d like to (re-)introduce myself after several changes in recent years. Most importantly, having retired from being a partner in Cetis LLP (now just an associate) I’m now deeply immersed in the field of Knowledge Commons, Knowledge Commoning, and knowledge serving the Commons more generally. Two projects I’m particularly involved with as well as interested in at present: Growing The Commons, growing out of Stroud who are doing some great practical work on commoning various resources; and Bioregional Knowledge Commons, where most of the people are in the Americas. Welcoming contact from anyone who shares these interests.
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Hi Mike! Good to see you here. We can talk more if you like.
Hi all,
Hi everyone, I’m Alex Loveday, currently working as a Scientific Director in healthcare comms. I’m here because I’m looking to connect with people who share an interest in technology, specifically health tech, and co-op models.
I’m hoping to start a worker-owned co-op that will develop tech-driven tools that challenge the status quo in the wellness industry through science-driven approaches to mind–body interaction. I’d love to find co-directors with skills in AI/ML, software engineering, or hardware prototyping who are also keen on co-operative governance and creating fairer models for innovation.
Really looking forward to learning from this community and hopefully finding the right collaborator to build something exciting together.
If this sounds relevant, I’d love to connect.
Alex
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Hi Simon, good to see you again. Of course c ommoning is top of my list. Good to know you’re involved with folks in Stroud (Dave Darby among them?). I have an interest in bioregion as an organising frame, so would be good to be in touch around that?
Anything within Europe organised around bioregion would be interesting. I became aware recently of Alta Sabina, in the uplands to the east of Rome. Education and digital infrastructure are parts of their priority there it seems - some proproetary Italian responses seem to be on the ground.
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Hello,
I’m Riviera (she / her), a tech-savvy, transgender, artist. I studied Performance Arts and then Experimental Publishing during which time I researched the intersections of software and art. I’m based near Exeter and aiming to start a co-op with some people I’ve met who share a passion for Linux. In a nutshell, we’re aiming to demonstrate the real world applicability of collaboration, mutual aid and non-extractive practices when working with technology. We want to do this through cultivating sustainable, inclusive and accessible orientations towards software design, use and repair. By way of crowdfunding for this, I’m hoping to start a radio show at a local FM/DAB community radio station. I’m keen to hear from people about getting started and would be thrilled to connect with people in Devon too!
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A big welcome @ivykim 
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Hi I’m Navarro, an undergraduate engineer and young coparent. I have been discussing with other young engineers about the potential of starting a tech worker coop. We collectively have decent experience in businesses however have zero experience with coops. What is your advice in starting a worker coop?
Furthermore, my current understanding is that most CoTech members have a digital focus. We would like to develop a digital ecosystem but our main business would be selling smartphones. Does this type of technology still make us eligible to join CoTech?
We are very passionate about this movement and are looking forward to seeing this movement grow into the mainstream!
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Hey Navarro. Welcome! If you’d like a bit of advice on starting a worker co-op, I’d be happy to have a chat and connect you with some folks who can help. Send me a private message here and we can set up a call (or chat in person if you happen to be in London).
If you eventually become a member of workers.coop and feel that being a member of CoTech would be beneficial to you, you’d be welcome to join. We’re a pretty broad church and the fact that you’ve found us means you’re probably in the right place! You do need to be a workers.coop member first though.
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Hi All!
I’m Endre from Digital Society, I met some of you earlier this year at the CoTech gathering, which was a lot of fun! I also believe we are CoTech members, however we’ve not really been proactive in participating, so apologies for that! Better late than never!
For those of you we haven’t met, we are a not-for-profit software worker’s co-operative based in Edinburgh. For clients, we mostly work on web applications, data challenges and deeper technical problems.
I’m looking forward to being a more proactive member of the community and potentially collaborating with some of you on interesting problems!
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Welcome @endre_digitalsociety !
I’m afraid you are not currently CoTech members, you were deleted from the site 6 months ago:
I expect that this is because you are not members of workers.coop, you would be welcome to re-join!
You might also be interested in the workers.coop event next week in Glasgow: