Things that could be posted in this thread include:
- Collaborations between CoTech co-ops, we have the ability to add these to the web site but I don’t think many co-ops have? Also there is a Discourse thread and a wiki page for this but again it doesn’t have much on it — I’m sure there have been many more collaborations than we have been able to capture.
- Events at which we have been & / or participated in, we have a events category here and we have a Future Events and Past Events section on the front page of our wiki however I’m sure that neither of these lists everything.
- Other things I have missed, what are they?
I have been helping with the Internet infrastructure so I’ll write a few words about that from my perspective (please fill in the gaps for things I haven’t covered)…
wiki.coops.tech
Our domain name and wiki were registered and setup during a session at Wortley Hall 2016, before we agreed a name for ourselves. The domain name was registered to Webarchitects as CoTech didn’t (and still doesn’t) have a legal entity which could own the domain name, as soon as we do it will be transferred. The MediaWiki site is hosted on a Webarchitects shared hosting virtual server which running Debian on Webarchitects owned hardware in a data centre in Sheffield which powered by Good Energy.
There are 55 registered users, other stats for the wiki include, 30 content pages, 157 uploaded files and there have been a total of 1,293 pages edits since the wiki was created.
www.coops.tech
Our public website is running WordPress on a Webarchitects shared hosting server and the code for it is hosted on GitHub and 13 people are joint owners of the CoTech organisation on GitHub, the repo has two branches, commits to the dev branch are automatically applied to the dev copy of the site and commits to the master branch are automatically applied to the live www.coops.tech site. There is a live2dev Ansible playbook hosted on git.coop which can be used to update the database and files of the dev site with content from the live site — when adding clients or whatever to the site you should do this directly on the live site.
The site currently lists 28 co-ops with a total of 169 staff and a total annual revenue of £5.7m as well as 252 clients, 49 services and 79 technologies. People with a login to the site can access the summary of the Piwik usage stats and there is a screenshot of these from a few weeks ago on the wiki, some of the Piwik stats include, a total of 3,840 visits, 2 min 37s average visit duration, 10,333 pageviews, 7,254 unique pageviews and 603 outlinks, 556 unique. (Note that the Piwik server we are using for stats is set to respect the Do Not Track HTTP header and only visitors that allow JavaScript from stats.webarch.net to be run, are not logged into the WordPress admin interface and are not considered to be bots by Piwik are included in these stats). Site visitors have mostly come from the UK but people have visited from all over the world:
community.coops.tech
Our open (anyone can join) Discourse community forum, this site, is running on a Webarchitects 2GB RAM virtual server and the install was done using Ansible and there are also playbooks for upgrading Discourse and upgrading Docker.
Our community forum has 95 registered users, has served a total of 1.1k page views, users have posted a total of 513 comments, 144 likes on 513 posts and a total of 27.4k emails have been sent by the site.
Apart from one hour of my time that Outlandish paid for the implementation of the automatic updates of the two WordPress sites from GitHub (writing a crontab which runs a bash script), all the time spent setting up and maintaining all the hosting services for the Internet infrastructure for CoTech has been provided for free and if anyone would like to thank Webarchitects for the work done and hosting service provided you could consider joining our co-op, one key benefit you would get as a result would be access to a co-cooperatively run GitLab CE server at git.coop for your projects.
Sorry for the self promotional ending to this post 
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