Hey #coop #cooperatives #housingcoop people - the Stirchley Development Co-op in Birmingham UK is being fucked by their contracted builder (to summarise bluntly) for £1.2m weeks before completion. More info here: https://www.stirchley.coop/stirchley-businesses-face-closure-jobs-at-risk-and-residents-already-homeless/

If any of you in the co-op community can help practically or otherwise please contact [email protected]

(I’m technically a member but am on medical leave so can't be involved - please don't contact me about it!)

Other tags: #WorkerCoops #socialhousing #SocialCoop #cooperative

Stirchley Businesses Face Closure, Jobs at Risk, and Residents Already Homeless: – Stirchley Co-operative Development

For all #socialcoop people that had accounts on #meetcoop , they are working on a way for us to recover the recordings and aftewards, restore the socialcoop videoconference we had.

Stay tuned to recover coop based, trustable and collaborative #videoconference s. :)

https://forum.meet.coop/t/can-i-recover-my-recordings-despite-service-being-down/1764/3

@kawaiipunk @flancian

Can I recover my recordings despite service being down?

Hi folks, So here’s the current situation. Me and Nick have been working on this problem a lot. Firstly the comms blast that @wouter tried to send out went wrong and wasn’t sent via email on the OpenCollective due to a confusing UI change: Announcement to meet.coop members 2025-10-31 - Open Collective We desperately need help with comms on this issue. It’s really hard to switch between being a sysadmin and doing comms. I’m trying my best to communicate on the forum but it needs to be more tha...

The meet.coop Forum

After more than a year on @SocialCoop I haven't received any reminder to renew my financial contribution. Is this normal? Is renewal simply left to members' own initiative?

My question on #Loomio : https://www.loomio.com/d/nt1xAsD0/question-about-the-contribution-renewal-process

#SocialCoop #question

Question about the contribution renewal process

Hello,<br><br>On October 8, 2024, I made a contribution of £36.00 GBP to join the social.coop cooperative.<br><br>Time has passed and today (2026-02-28), I just thought about renewing my financial contribution, in the amount of £12.00 GBP.<br><br>I am surprised not to have received any message requesting a renewal of my financial contribution. I don't think I received an email, I saw nothing on the https://social.coop interface, and nothing on https://opencollective.com either.<br><br>I found and read the Wiki page "Social.coop registration process" but found no documentation regarding "renewal".<br><br>I have a few questions:<br><br><br>is it normal not to receive a reminder?<br>does the cooperative deliberately let members renew their contribution at their own pace, without any prompting, trusting in their commitment?<br><br><br>Suggestion: what do you think about documenting how the renewal process works on the following pages?<br><br><br>https://join.social.coop/registration-form.html<br>and/or in a wiki page at https://git.coop/social.coop/community/docs/-/wikis/home<br><br><br>Have a great day,<br>Stéphane<br>

Loomio

Just noticed that we've finally doubled our character limit on #SocialCoop from 500 up to a much roomier 1k characters. Thanks to the tech working group for making this happen! To celebrate, I will now post the lyrics to "I love you, Octopus" by Dalmatian Rex and the Eigentones which would not have previously fit here!

I think it's great that you've got eight wobbly arms
I can never see you with your crazy camouflage
I think you're bostin, you are surreal
Better than the fish, the sharks and even the Conger Eel

Because...
I love you, Octopus

I wish I was as rich as the English king and queen
I'd spend my money on a brand-new submarine
I'd swim with the dolphins like Jacques Cousteau
In the end of the evening, we'll have a real big fish disco

Because...
I love you, Octopus

I love you... Octopus I love you!

https://youtu.be/sbaw2K5i52s

#Octopus #Cephalopodyssey #LongToot #DealWithItEugen #DrunkWithPower

Octopus I love you by Dalmatian Rex and the Eigentones

YouTube
@Anibyl Woo! Thanks to all involved! #SocialCoop
#SocialCoop has 1000-character limit on posts now 🚀
#SocialCoop the instance will momentarily go down as we try to bump the character limit to 1k :) Thank you for your patience!
#SocialCoop the instance will momentarily go down as we try to bump the character limit to 1k :) Thank you for your patience!

We have another #CosocialReads 📚 with #socialcoop kicking off this week:

📅 Wednesday Feb 4
➡️ RSVP: https://luma.com/hmfnou0k

We'll be chatting about two Lucy Suchman essays:
- Do categories have politics?
- Located accountabilities in technology production

After that we'll plan about reading the 2nd edition of her notable book: Human-machine reconfigurations.

Links and details here:

https://members.cosocial.ca/t/winter-2026-reading-group-lucy-suchman-essays-human-machine-reconfigurations/

CoSocial Reading Group: Intros for Lucy Suchman and plan · Luma

Kicking off the forth edition of our reading group with Social.coop. Let’s read a book together over 3-4 sessions this winter! ❄️ What we're reading : Lucy…

@syhr

Might be worth considering as a #SocialCoop service ...