Making contact with other tech co-ops outside of the UK?

Co-ops International Solidarity
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Hi @harry,

I myself am playing the “network connector”, not that it is my official title, it is just something I do, mostly for free today.

So originally I am from Paris but I spent my time visiting the collectives of freelancers within the network present in Nantes, Le Mans, Rennes, Montpellier, Sophia Antipolis, Lyon and Poitiers. I rarely have a fixed location.

That beign said, you can find members of the network in all the cities I mentionned above.

I hope this answers the question.
Where are you yourself ?

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It’s so good to hear from you! Do you know anyone from https://dtc-innovation.org/ ? They’re part of CoTech (Tom is based in the UK) but legally registered in France

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That sounds brilliant are there any details online?

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I’ve worked with Pointblank in Thessalonika (thanks to being put in touch via Agile). Also GreaterThan (are they a co-op? don’t know, but they are part of the Enspiral beast), and CiviCoop (which is an interesting group focussed around CiviCRM, based in the Netherlands I think, but with members from other parts of Europe as well.

The CiviCoop model is an interesting one that might have some legs within CoTech, although my guess is that interests and specialisms are perhaps too diverse for it to work. As I understand it the business model is that developers like to develop, and don’t like getting tied up in all of the downstream support. In CiviCoop, the members come together to co-fund a support desk that takes a lot of the pain away. Personally I quite like doing support stuff, but I guess it takes all sorts. Interested in others thoughts on this idea, and what people are doing currently on this.

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Hi @Kayleigh,

I didn’t know them, but I’ll say hello right now :wink:

Thank you for finger pointing them to me

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I don’t know them personally, but https://colet.space/work-with-us/ is a New York based feminist tech co-op

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We are here now!! :smile:

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Hi everyone! As Neto we are part of Facttic and Cambá…

I love this topic to keep in touch with other cooperatives.
Recently at Facttic we started to visit other cooperatives near us: Devecoop, Tecso, Fiqus, Gcoop…
We are taking trainings together (UX, ReactJs, Cooperativism, and whatever we think is usefull)
That helps us to make stronger our relationships…

Also, the last month we make a call online (video included!) with Sassafras from USA.
This meeting was great! We show them our office and share some topics about beeing a cooperative:
-New owner-workers entering at the cooperative
-Labour Culture dinamics (we are 27, so it’s different to be 4, for example)
-Techonologies that we work at
-Distribution and salary

So, maybe we could try something like this to be in contact… :wink:

Do you ever call another coop in a “lets know each other” intention?
(sorry for my english, I hope that question could be understood)

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I just saw this! Sorry Chris, l have been pretty busy on projects recently so haven’t engaged much, as you might have noticed. Good that they’ve been in touch though :slight_smile:

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Oh gawd l just realised that was in January. Ah well, we’re all friends now so it’s all good.

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Hey @solverniers :slight_smile:

I got in touch with Neto after he posted a little while ago because l am going to be in Buenos Aires in January and would love to come and see you. I think we’re having a call some time in December so l would be happy to show you around Outlandish and maybe Space4.

Really nice to hear from you, I’m going to visit you mid January so hopefully we get to meet in person. Saludos

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That sounds great, perhaps we could also schedule a international video chat for everybody to say hi during our gathering 29-30th November 2018?

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Sounds like a great idea!

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They are a cooperative in Argentina aiming to create a space where workers’ cooperatives can communicate, help each other, educate each other in using technologies, influence policies and legislation that support cooperatives. They look great.

All the best, Elnura

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Hi everyone! Thanks for your beautiful welcome!
I will be here in January @Kayleigh !!we are looking forward to receive you, visited us and maybe show you some part of the city and cultural life :smiley:
We are near the central part of the city, so it’s easy to visit us and get a place. Also we can improve a kind of cooperative-couchsurfing if you need.

I love the idea of a international video chat @chris .
I would like to communicate that to sassafras if you already have a time for the call? (anyway I already tell them about the forum, so I hope they join us soon)

Thanks for your appreciation @Elnura Where are you from? :slight_smile:

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We have a two day gathering in London, 29-30th November and I was thinking that a video call during that might be good as there would be a lot of people to say hi to each other, does sound like it might work?

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Hey everyone,

Yes sounds like a nice idea. Are you GMT -3 @solverniers?

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Hi everyone!

29/11 works for us, preferably on our morning (GMT-3), but we can adapt to another schedule.

On November 30th some of us are going to participate at the protest against the G20 meeting in Buenos Aires…

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Hi sorry not to get back to you on this.

I can schedule it in for 4pm GMT? Or else we could do it around 7pm which will be when we have finished the hack for the day and we’re beginning our social.

I guess it depends a bit on the scope of the call - if it’s to really discuss work stuff I think 4pm is best. If it’s more just to say hi I would suggest 7pm (by which time people will be a bit more relaxed because work for the day will be finished).

@chris are you taking the lead on the call? What timing do you think is best?