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We're thrilled to announce our new project:
https://docs.coop/

Building on the great work of Suite Numerique (https://docs.numerique.gouv.fr/home/), we are offering an opportunity to be part of a new collaborative Docs platform as a service, that provides an ethical alternative to Google Docs, Office 365, Notion etc.

Docs is the result of a joint effort lead by the French πŸ₯– (DINUM) and German πŸ₯¨ (ZenDiS) governments which represents a paradigm shift in the way open source software is funded.

A screenshot of the Docs interface with a document open and some test text in there including a screenshot from the awesome movie Hackers.

quoted The Revolution Will Not Be Funded by Incite! Women of Color Against Violence

Incite! Women of Color Against Violence: The Revolution Will Not Be Funded (Paperback, 2017, Duke University Press) No rating

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It is important that we not collapse these differences even while recognizing a set of shared structural forces and logics. This is especially important as non-profits themselves are vulnerable to these structural forces. For example, non-profit organizations continue to feel impacts of the recession in both the increased demands for basic social services as well as the shrinking of government and foundation funding and individual donations. Many small organizations made up of poor and working-class members have dissolved or folded into larger non-profits. A lack of funding has led such groups to give up vital infrastructure and compensated staff positions, but the work continues through volunteer labor, in members' homes or donated space.

— The Revolution Will Not Be Funded by  (Page xviii - xix)

If non-profits are to serve as a tool for liberation and reconstruction, then they need their own productive forces to call upon for fueling their efforts. Subjugation to capital, be it directly through philanthropic foundations, indirectly through (capitalist) government funding, or even tortuously through individual donors --themselves dependent upon exchanging their labor to capital for the money they donate-- necessarily clips the non-profit's wings. It is always contorting itself upon the whims of capital. Perhaps a partnership between non-profits and co-ops, both worker owned and operated, could serve to foster such a development of productive forces beyond --or at least less hindered by-- the antagonistic ruling capitalist class's reach. In this model, non-profits could serve as a stabilizing foundation upon which less certain co-operative proletarian endeavors could build.

#socialism #communism #marxism #coops #coop #NonProfit #npic

Continuing our habit (maybe not a good one) of writing toots based on Fediverse tech critique, just reiterating we have expertise in running git forges!

We've run https://git.autonomic.zone/ and https://git.coopcloud.tech/ (both with Drone) for many years.

There is however a new Gitlab @coopcloud recipe which is exciting - https://git.coopcloud.tech/coop-cloud/gitlab

Feel free to reach out to us if you need Git hosting: https://autonomic.zone/

We can friendly provide hosting support for both Gitea and Gitlab. 100% worker controlled. No CEO. No reactionary bullshit.

Boycott and divest from the big U.S. tech monopolies.

Autonomic can help. We offer managed hosting and support for open source infrastructure that can be hosted around the world.

From a mainstream provider in Germany, a privacy focussed provider in Iceland to a Worker Co-op provider in the UK, or something physically in your local space. Your server infrastructure can live in a safe place.

New product alert!

To increase our support of the co-op movement, we're building a job board, https://apply.coop.

Yes, there are many job boards already, but we want to showcase hiring organizations that follow the 7 Cooperative Principles and make it easy for folks who want to join the worker ownership movement.

What you can do: Visit and share apply.coop within your networks so we can have a healthy list of job postings when we launch!