Exit to Community Collective

US threat to ban #TikTok prompts call for democratic ownership from #coops researcher Nathan Schneider of Exit to Community Collective and Michael Brennan of the US Federation of Worker Cooperatives #platformcoops #socialmedia

Check out this incredible library of case studies on #employeeownership. Each story touches on “Motivation and Readiness”, “Process and Tensions”, and “Results” to illustrate the conversion process. 📖 Be sure to read the entries on Colorado #employeeowned companies Namaste Solar and Trident Booksellers and Cafe (both in #Boulder, CO). 🌄📚☀️ Big shout to Exit to Community Collective for sharing all of these incredible stories! 📣 Allie M. Clark, Esq. Kristopher Oyler Jennifer Briggs Dr. Stephanie Gripne Kerry Siggins Naquetta Ricks, MBA Chuong M. Le Yessica Holguin Douglas Dell Sandy Shoemaker Jason Wiener Dan Luzietti Matthew Licina Nikki Maloney C. Paul Bindel Ashley Ortiz Minsun Ji Michaela Holmes Nathan Schneider Danny Spitzberg

Day 2 of FOSS Backstage didn't disappoint! A fascinating insight to kick off with from Giacomo Tenaglia on all things Open Source at CERN (hint: there's SO MUCH stuff going on!) followed by an insightful session by Tarus Balog on open source business models ... top takeaway: "Make things easier to buy rather than sell" and lots of 💡for Mautic revenue streams and future growth opportunities. Awesome to meet Abigail Garner from Sovereign Tech Fund - thanks so much for the all important stickers! Great session from Celeste Horgan about growing your maintainer community, so interesting to hear how Aiven separates out their open source supported projects from their Labs projects and when not to open source projects, crowd sourced from their team - some great quotes! Some interesting debates from Thomas Steenbergen, Dr. Lina Boecker, Paloma Oliveira and Fiona Krakenbürger on the topic of freedom v sustainable business followed by great insights from Scott Jenson on why some open source projects don't do UX well (and how to improve - lots of great tips for our UI/UX Tiger Team!) Finally a great workshop on Exit to Community from Adina Glickstein, Eli Zeger and Hazel Devjani on Exit to Community (check out https://e2c.how and Exit to Community Collective!) So much learned, so many great connections made and simply awesome to meet so many community managers, leaders and contributors to open source all focused on helping each other to learn and grow. Possibly one of my favourite events in the calendar and _so_ glad I could _finally_ get to attend in person! Now to write up the notes, watch the sessions I couldn't get to, and make my way back to normality after quite some time of travel and events! A huge thanks to the organisers and volunteers at FOSS Backstage - what a fantastic, well organised event and so important to have these conditions for folks to come together from this niche-within-a-niche industry of community management in open source! #FOSSBack #FOSSBackstage #OpenSource

My conversation with Danny O'Brien for Filecoin Foundation’s DWeb Decoded podcast is live. His fantastic questions led us into a deep dive into value, online art, conservation and decentralized storage. 🎧 Give it a listen on Spotify: https://lnkd.in/gSyxZWKd TL;DL: 05: What parts of the NFT boom were anticipated by the work you were doing at TRANSFER, and what was overlooked that now lays fallow as an opportunity? 10: Discussion of speculative vs. cultural value: building value over time. “A great example is Second Life founder Philip Rosedale’s vision of engineering in harmony with art, as a result cultural value grows over time. Art in these kinds of lasting virtual environments has the opportunity to accrue value.” 14: Conservation and artist intent: exhibiting and contextualizing live virtual worlds. “Regina Harsanyi’s monumental exhibition of Auriea Harvey’s work at the Museum of the Moving Image is an excellent example of an institution getting this right.” 17: Decentralized Data Storage: TRANSFER Data Trust as permanence, and performance. “Encoding transactions of care into FVM: reciprocity, appreciation, context.” 20: Appraisal and Value of Time-based Media Art: “There’s the data, and there’s the processes performed on it - I believe that’s where the value is stored.” 26: Lots of copies keeps stuff safe: “We’re repositioning the Archival Information Package (AIP), as an evolving conservation artifact.” 30: The cooperative design challenge: “Unifying a group of interdisciplinary practitioners around protocols of care.” 34: A bridge between art and engineering: “Archiving is a lonely act, just like development, and studio production. We’re creating new behaviors of trust and encouragement.” 37: Getting involved: “We have a federated vision for the TRANSFER Data Trust. In the first phase, you can acquire a work and host a node, or contribute resources of expertise and care, and (eventually) fork and implement your own trust.” 40: Gray Area‘s DWeb Curriculum for Creators. “Post-NFT boom, artists are familiar with IPFS and some of the tooling, but they’ve maybe been burnt, and their works are disappearing. This course educates artists and creatives about the historical precedent and the technological infrastructure of DWeb.” 48: Our 2024 Roadmap for the Data Trust + teaser of upcoming exhibitions: “We’re exiting ownership of the gallery to our artists, inspired by MED Lab Boulder’s Exit to Community Collective”

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