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Howdy there.
I am a pretty ambition student finishing his Web Design and Development degree next year. Most of my degree has been focusing on UX Design and front end development. I always seen myself more of a jack of all trades rather than focused on one sector.
Currently working on some ideas inspired by Matt Crow from Outlandish, about half a year ago he came to our University to talk about how coops.tech is creating this awesome network for cooperatives. One thing that caught my attention was how he described Cooperatives as a “conscious business” to put part of profits aside to create something socially and environmentally benefiting.
But an idea doesn’t exactly pay for the living expenses. Currently i am searching for a summer trainee position in Finland 
but completely possible to work online. If opportunity shines, i will likely stay in UK 
after studies.
Some of my recent portfolio worthy highlights can be found on my website. http://rainerleit.eu 
PS: Discourse looks alot like a modern forum should look like. Back in the day i used to drool over Vbulletin and IP.Boards but over the years i have forgotten forums even existed. Have come across discourse now on coda.io and here, and it definitely will bring me back to forums.
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Hello everyone 
I’m a senior full stack engineer with a front end focus looking for a remote job.
I’m interested in working for a coop because I like the egalitarian nature and the idea of cooperating on meaningful work rather than just being a cog in a corporate machine.
I have 8 years of experience building apps. I’ve worked with PHP, Ruby, Python and JavaScript which is my strongest language. I’m also very experienced with React/Redux, Node, HTML/CSS, MySQL, GraphQL, Webpack, Bash, etc. My resume is available at GitHub - localjo/resume: High impact senior software engineer with a passion to make the world a better place! and a list of some of the public projects I’ve worked on is on my portfolio: https://josiahsprague.com
If any of the coops here are hiring remote, I’d love to work together.
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Hello,
I have been a member of a few worker coops; Ecobee (which was absorbed into Agile Collective), 3 Mules (a web development and marketing coop) and I have an unpaid advisory role at Red Coop, which designs and implements retrofit solutions.
(Most links in this post are tweaked due to posting restrictions for a new user.)
I have started to leave programming in order to build a business as a life coach and to train as a psychotherapist. I think it will take me a year or more to build my life-coaching business to the point at which it can sustain me. In the meantime I am looking for 2 days per week of tech work in order to keep body and soul together.
My work over the last decade:
- At Ecobee and 3 Mules I mostly built Drupal 6 & 7 websites.
- I built the Retrofit Pattern Book in PHP, Silex, MySQL
- and a web app called Thnku (not an active site) in Ruby, Sinatra, MySQL, for a university researcher
- I also built the Poverty Monitor for Greater Manchester Poverty Action, mostly by gluing together various JS libraries with data stored in Google sheets and CartoDB. It’s a mini-site within the larger wordpress site. I wrote a little static site generator in Ruby to make the development easier.
- The last few years I spent writing a couple of http servers in Go and MongoDB. They formed a community collaboration system. Under other circumstances I would have adapted or extended an existing system like Drupal Organic Groups or maybe Discourse, but a primary requirement was to have ad-hoc structured documents. The system allows people to add a field of any defined type to any individual document at creation or later editing. Document types are therefore conventions, not constraints.
- My main skills are server-side but I have some HTML / CSS and copy-writing ability. Here is the static site for my life coaching business: http://justinhellings.uk/
I hope something here grabs your attention. I’m open to a wide range of work. Obviously, I would be very happy to answer any queries.
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Hi @JustinHellings, sorry about the link restrictions, this is a Discourse default that we haven’t changed, I have fixed some links in your post, I love the patterns book, I wanted to do something like this 25 years ago when I was detailing buildings at Sheffield Council, using AutoCAD 12 on Solaris (and then 13 on NT 3.5, which was worse, but seemed like a good idea at the time) over 20 years ago…
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Thanks for the edits @chris.
Sounds like you could swap AutoCAD war stories with Charlie at Red Coop
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Hello everyone! I’m Jared Hardy, founder of Data Roads Foundation, where we encourage all communities to build their own Local-Shares.Net co-ops for Internet access and renewable power, among other forms of community commons and assets sharing. We are also working on becoming a worker self-directed nonprofit (as defined by TheSELC.org).
I was thankfully directed here by Tom Llewellyn at Shareable.net. We were talking about the utter dearth of technology worker cooperatives in the United States, and none I know of are hiring remote workers. He thought this would be a good place to look around, and talk with other global tech co-ops about the benefits of remote teams.
I live in downtown Los Angeles, California, in support of my wife’s civil service work at the LAPL.org. We don’t plan on moving anytime soon, definitely nowhere near the SF Bay Area, and I haven’t found any tech co-ops here within a healthy commute distance. This is why I’m here looking for jobs with remote teams and potential partners online.
I’m yet another white man in tech, so I’m preferably looking for more diverse partners to cofound a remote tech worker co-op and crowd-gathering platform, with the core mission of creating and supporting ever more remote tech worker co-ops in Open Source, as well as supporting tech co-op diversity via blind-hiring and pseudonymous contribution tracking tools. I have been a product and IT leader at video game and online service developers, I can program in most languages and target every major OS (including game console BSD forks), but I’m preferentially targeting all my new projects at Rust → LLVM → Emscripten and native platform-independent pipelines (with some web app prototyping in Python) on the Peer Production License by the P2Pfoundation.net.
Hi Everyone,
It is a pleasure to bump into a Tech Community that shares the same values and aspirations about Technology and Social Change as me through my existing ICT4D meetup network when I recently move to London. While I am pretty new for the Tech Coop, after following few meetups at Space4, I am extremely loving it.
My background is primarily in ICTs for International Development both in practice and training (MSc ICTs for Development, PGD in Computer Science and over 10 years of experience in various areas). In addition, I was trained and worked as a Trainer/Teacher for about 5 years.
I am versatile and my experience, education and skills sets are very diverse ( biased to Web/Software development and System Analyst/Support).
Currently I am looking forward to join an enthusiastic and friendly team with a strong ambition and resilience to grow, develop and at the same time to bring impact on Tech for Good.
Here is my LinkedIn Profile page: https://www.linkedin.com/in/yidnekachew-redda-haile-b5210417/
My email: yidnekr@yahoo.com
I am happy to hear from or tell more to anyone interested.
Thank you.
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Hello again.
I posted back in May in this thread because I was looking for tech work and given the choice I would prefer to work with a coop.
Soon after that post, I started working with Geeks for Social Change doing refactoring and new features on a project called PlaceCal. It’s a great project. Older residents (50+) in Hulme and Moss Side in Manchester reported that there were very few organised activities for them. It turned out that local organisations were providing an enormous number of events that were getting little publicity. PlaceCal provided training to help those orgs add all their events to their own calendars (Google, FB, Apple, whatever) and then wrote a site to aggregate all the events. One benefit is that each third sector organisation that uses the site now has a much better understanding of what the others do, and therefore where to direct people with needs outside that organisation’s scope.
That was the second Rails/Postgres project I’ve worked on. My work is coming to an end on PlaceCal so now I’m on the lookout for something else. I’d be grateful for any leads.
All the best,
Justin
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Hello everyone,
My primary motivation for looking for work in a cooperative is the idea of working for a community instead of a company as well as working for a group of people who have moral and ethical considerations of the kind of work they take.
I have mainly been involved with software support and operations, mainly Linux OS, Scripting based languages and Databases. The last 2 years I have been working as a Support Team Lead. I am striving to provide the best customer service by employing the most effective ITIL practices, managing SLAs, leading customer service reviews and reporting to higher management. Maintaining a high level of motivation among the team members and a positive environment through appraisals, objectives, regular meetings and mentoring, is a key part of my role. I am still involved with technical work when required.
Please message me if the above sound of interest to you and you want to find out more.
Regards,
Thanos
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Hi all
I have been self-teaching front end development since last November and am currently interviewing for junior roles. I am currently a part-time BSc Computing student at Birkbeck, University of London and am based in London
I am however becoming increasingly disenchanted with the idea of working for a boss who has the power to make my working life unpleasant for completely arbitrary reasons, and at companies where, as someone on the shop floor, I have no say.
I’d love to start my career (and hopefully continue it!) at a co-op.
Is anyone open to hiring a junior?
Here is my CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/riz-s-590048183/
And here is my GitHub: rs357 (Rui DeSousa) · GitHub
If anyone fancies reaching out to me, I am at rizwansyed357@protonmail.com
Riz
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Hi, my name is Darren, based in Tayside. I have been web dev freelancing part time on and off for the past 13 years or so, mainly working with October CMS and Joomla along with a bit of Jeykll and Ember JS.
I really like the idea of people of various skill sets coming together to form co-op’s and the different co-op’s collaborating at times.
Although not technically actively looking for working within a co-op at the moment, I would be up for lending a hand (if I can) to anyone on projects they may be doing and need assistance.
Some of my previous stuff can be seen on my site jardwd.space and can email me on d.young@tuta.io
Hello and apologies for posting this in People looking for Jobs, in fact it’s Job looking for People (Also posted in Co-operative News database needs PHP help but no replies … perhaps it’s asking too much!?)
Anyway, any replies would be welcome, even if it’s only advice. I’ve never tried before recruiting a PHP developer.
As part of my work with Webarchitects I’m also on the committee of a co-operative resource centre [“Principle 5” https://www.principle5.coop ]. There we’ve started work on a project to produce an index database of the back editions of Co-operative News, intended to become a permanent and ever-growing resource, available for anyone looking into the co-op movement - both historical/back issues and current/continuing into the future. This excellent newspaper has been published over the last 150 years so, yes, it’ll be a long task indexing each article and edition, but we’re volunteer-powered and up for the task.
To start the database (which will be online and free to access) we’ve had help from Jade, a Chinese volunteer/graduate, and it’s close to beta version already. Jade has done the front end, but in completing the back end she needs up-skilling. We’ve been advised that someone with PHP development skills is needed. Basically I am asking if someone can spend a day maybe, with Jade, on paired programming ?? She’s based here in Sheffield and is learning PHP. If you or anyone you know have PHP skills and are willing to consider offering some limited volunteer work, will you kindly get in touch?
Principle 5 is an un-funded and volunteer-run resource centre /archive/library/reading room; rent is our major cost, covered by subscriptions from members and we cannot afford to employ anyone, hence this request. There is no time deadline except that Jade may have to leave the UK in March, thanks to our not-generous immigration laws.
Thanks,
Jonathan Cook
Webarchitects & Principle 5
PS Please feel free to pass this message on to any likely people? Thanks!
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Hello,
My name’s Drake Murphy, I’m a student in Colorado at CU Boulder. I believe that co-ops have the potential to radically transform our economy into something more democratic and egalitarian. I’d love to have a chance to contribute to the tech co-op field.
My main skills are in the field of Linux systems administration and reverse engineering. That includes docker experience, networking, x86 assembly knowledge, debuggers like Ollybdg and IDA Pro. I also have experience programming in python, Golang, C, and the before mentioned x86 ASM.
If anyone is interested in student with these skills, please contact me for more information.
Thank you,
Drake Murphy
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Greetings from Edinburgh!
I currently work for a small company whose investors have cut their funding (Brexit?), and so have had to make most of their software team redundant - including me. So, I’m looking for new opportunities.
I’m a senior software engineer with over twenty years professional experience. I hope that done right, the co-op sector can be a less destructive alternative to standard corporate start-up culture, both to their members and the wider world in general.
This is why I’d like to get involved with a worker co-op directly to learn more about the practicalities - and not least to feel like I’m working on something I am mutually invested in. I’ve actually been looking for co-op opportunities and co-operators for some time, but they seem hard to find. Therefore, any leads welcomed!
My background: most recently I’ve been working for a telecommunications infrastructure company, developing an application for managing the company’s specialised remote off-grid generators for powering radio masts. This is written in a mixture of Java, Groovy, C, and Javascript. I re-engineered incremetally from a single-user SWT desktop application into a multi-user web based application using Ratpack, whilst keeping it working during this process. I developed the initial web UI using AngularJS and custom D3 charts; later I assisted new team members to replace this with their tool of choice, React. Previously I had designed the build and deployment system in Jenkins, Ansible, and a mixture of Gradle (for Java) and Make (for C), with installers for CentOS, Debian and Windows. Version control is with Git. Other systems I worked were a stock-control application using CouchDB/AngularJS, and components of an embedded linux controller in C and C++, shell scripting, awk/sed, including a web UI using AngularJS/D3.
In previous professional experience, applications I’ve built or maintained include 3D graphics / simulation in C/C++, a property management website in Perl/Javascript, and a Puppet/Git based deployment system thereof, workflow-based office automation in C#/.Net, and others. I’ve published a few open source libraries in Perl and Javascript. I’ve worked for small one-man start-up companies and large ones like Sun, and both as an employee and freelancer, and a volunteer for charities or communities.
Prior to that, I studied physics and computing, and I was a postgraduate student at CERN studying architectures for the ATLAS detector’s second level trigger, using discrete event simulation software and benchmarking pattern recognition algorithms in C/Assembly for DSP microcontrollers.
Outside work, I’m currently the primary member of a volunteer team maintaining http://social.coop’s infrastructure (my username there is @wu-lee), an experiment in member-owned democratically run social media. This uses a Mastodon server running in Docker on a Linux server, and Loomio for decision making. This has been an invaluable experience in community building and direct democracy, with both positive and negative lessons.
In 2009 I helped found Edinburgh Hacklab, a successful member owned and run community workshop, of which I am still a member.
CV available on request, and my current employers are happy to provide a reference.
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Hi,
My name i ken. I am a MSc Mechanical Engineering German graduate recently moved to the north east of UK and am self learning web development. I have various experience working as an engineer for both big companies and startups and would really want to explore more working for COOPs as it resonate a lot with my principle of creating a more balanced future for everyone.
My speciality in engineering is in the energy sector, I have experience working with virtual power plants and also experience in developping an application for smart buildings using weather forecast data to reduce energy consumption for smart buildings. The latter was the project for my thesis. The application was based on Python.
Due to the lack of working opportunity in the north east of england in my field I am now self teaching myself web development and learning CSS, HTML, JS, PHP, NodeJS and AngularJS. One of the projects that I am working now is to help WeCo in some of the simple development tasks.
I am interested in both engineering related to energy especially sustainable buildings and also junior web development jobs. Besides the main line of work I teach languages (english and german online), swimming, fitness trainer and am also a life coach. I love helping people acheive their dreams and full potential.
CV available on request.
Your’s sincerly,
Ken
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Hi.
My name is Angel. I’m a Full-Stack software developer and activist living in London. For the past years I’ve been working on a number of tech startups in different industries such as satellite internet providers, finances and cryptocurrency. My focus has been on developing software that is both elegant and robust, using modern development patterns and leveraging my knowledge of systems architecture.
My main skills are with the Javascript stack, including technologies like Node.js, MongoDB, GraphQl and Vue.js to name a few. In the past I’ve also worked with PHP+Laravel and .Net+C#. Although I’m centered on Javascript on the moment, I’m also be interested in expanding into other languages like Elixir and Go.
It has been a dream of mine for a while to work in a co-op, as I feel that not only would it align with my personal believes in economical justice and work democracy but it would allow me to engage more passionately with my own work.
You can see my work experience here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/angelgarciajimenezdev/
And you can contact me here: andaynotemenes@gmail.com
Kind Regards
Angel
Hi everyone.
My name is Erroll, and I am looking for remote work (part time or full time).
Location: I am in South Africa, but can work in any timezone
Currently working (remotely) for a US based software company doing tech support (I manage the helpdesk and admin our servers and services while providing direct technical assistance to our users). Looking to get out of working with proprietary software and more into working with Free Software projects or using Free Software tools, preferably in a co-op or semi-cooperative organisation.
Experience:
I run & admin several Debian servers for work and personal use, all of them with:
- Postfix+Dovecot+Rspamd
- Nginx+PHP
- ISPConfig
- Wordpress
For work I installed, maintain and admin:
- OSTicket
- LiveHelperChat
- Nextcloud (x2)
- Mail Server (postfix/dovecot/rspamd)
- Wordpress
- Samba based CDN for Windows IIS connected to a Vlan (at the hosting provider)
- Dokuwiki (official Help Documentation for our software)
My personal servers have:
- Personal Mail Server (postfix/dovecot/rspamd)
- Wireguard VPN
- Unbound resolving/caching DNS + PiHole (for my own home network & servers to use)
- Jitsi-meet
- Pleroma
- Friendica
- Prosody XMPP (using Friendica for auth)
- Cryptpad
- Matrix/Element
- Nextcloud
- Wordpress (hosting sites for a few friends and others)
- Dokuwiki
- Mumble
Some experience with:
- docker
- TOR
Good communicator, Very good with customers and users.
However, I have no “formal” training or qualifications, just lots of experience - and lots to learn.
I have taught myself the minimum required to operate and administer the services I am responsible for.
I am NOT very good at:
- Web design, graphic design (or any forms of visual communication really)
- Coding (although I can navigate/read code with average proficiency and I can be valuable at the testing & QC level due to a fair amount of experience with regards to troubleshooting and technical feedback)
- Advanced Gnu/Linux administration, for example: in large enterprise environments (due only to a lack of time, mentorship and opportunity)
- Sales
I am interested in:
- Turning the internet into a World Wide Mesh of decentralised, interconnected networks
- Working with Free Software, at any level and in any capacity
- Abandoning exploitive capitalist ideologies and furthering the goals of the co-operative movement in its place
- Working in a co-operative and/or learning through practise and experience how to run one
- Censorship resistant communications and creating universally free access to knowledge & information
I run https://librenet.co.za (Friendica) as a personal project (initially intended as a social network for friends and family, but they all seem to prefer fb/whatsapp)
In conclusion, I will take pretty much any opportunity, and at any level, to work with almost any kind of co-operative and become a member of a team committed to using (and improving) Free Software.
You can email me directly, if you like: erroll@the-wizard.co.za
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Welcome @falgn0n and high five for saying what you’re good at, and not very good at. That was refreshing to read
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Keywords: Software developer, entry-level, preferably not full-time, remote.
Hello there!
I’m new at the forum as I was pointed here after an (unsuccessful) application to one of the CoTech’s member co-operations. After lurking for few days I wanted to say hello to everyone and thank for creating such a welcoming space!
Few words about me:
I’m a Computer Science almost BSc (still a student of 4th year) at University of Warsaw. I’m currently based in Wrocław, Poland, but may relocate after the pandemic. Coming from the country of Poland, which is currently experiencing systemic changes against democracy and minorities, I’m trying to actively contribute to my immediate environment. After being hit with some depressive episodes, I’m still learning to forge despair into action: mainly through educating, climate activism, and building a local community. My passions include astronomy, experimental music, linguistics, anthropology, envisioning eco-utopian anarchist future, and many more! As you can guess by now, I want to find some impactful, ethical, and socially conscious job.
On technical level:
I have no prior professional experience. However, pursuing my degree I’ve explored multiple technologies and paradigms:
- from operational systems/networks (assembly, bash, C, C++),
- through apps (Java, Android, SQL),
- full-stack development (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, TypeScript, NodeJS),
- and some functional/logical quirky programs (Haskell, Prolog, Scala, C++ metaprogramming),
- finishing with thesis on unsupervised Machine Learning (Python, PyTorch).
A few of the projects were were done in groups (git), and I strongly value the spirit of cooperation and knowledge sharing. With my colleagues we’ve created an informal student group engaging in helping each other, and nearly (the pandemic) established a students scientific association on creative programming.
None of the technology listed above have I learned thoroughly. However, I truly enjoy learning: the most important thing I learned at the college was how to learn, and overcome intellectual obstacles. I’m always trying to apply past lessons of other fields to my current work, and when something excites me, I can devote myself fully: intellectually, and emotionally.
I’d strongly prefer to work part-time, as I want to have time to pursue my other interests (and study for ~8 hrs/week). However, given my lack of experience and the perspective of doing something genuinely meaningful, I can commit more time.
You’re welcome to see my profile rotifyld@GitHub,
And see my resume: Dawid Borys - resume.pdf (120.4 KB).
Contact me here, or via email: dawidborys98@gmail.com
I’m curious of all the feedback, equally:
- the offers,
- some other places to post/apply to,
- suggestions on which technologies to explore better,
- maybe ideas on some volunteer projects that would get me kicked in the “industry” (of ethical business, I mean, of course)
Thanks everyone for reading, and have a nice, calm day!
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