How to find technical worker cooperatives
Hard to find fulfilment using your tech skills for good
https://rmharrison.medium.com/how-to-find-technical-worker-cooperatives-b253c7a7c6ef
How to find technical worker cooperatives
Hard to find fulfilment using your tech skills for good
https://rmharrison.medium.com/how-to-find-technical-worker-cooperatives-b253c7a7c6ef
🚅 We're on our way to #39c3
Hit us up if you want to talk about #LAUTI , #coopcloud or #techcooperatives
We will be partly present at the @coopcloud #assembly next to the one from @Codeberg https://events.ccc.de/congress/2025/hub/de/assembly/detail/coopcloud
We will also do a short self-organized talk about LAUTI at the @techfrombelow assembly. More infos coming soon.
New #Disintermedia blog post!
After months of inactivity, I've decided to declare the Bridge Seat project a success and close up shop. Thanks to everyone who backed the vision and tried to help us realise it. Honourable mentions in the blog post;
https://disintermedia.net.nz/a-bridge-too-far/
The way I worded this announcement might be a bit confusing. If I’m declaring it a success, why am I closing up shop? I explain this at some length in the blog post.

Every startup story has a beginning, and an end TL;DR the Bridge Seat Cooperative experiment is over, at least in its current form. I (Strypey) am done with SubStack, due to its escalating lock-in, promotion of actual Neo-nazis, and overall enshittification. If you want to keep receiving posts about
Just re-published OpaVote's Fall 2025 Newsletter to our blog: https://blog.opavote.com/2025/10/fall-2025-updates.html
TL/DR?
- Improvements to invoicing, data retention, and voter opt-out/opt-in
- A case study with #EqualExchange!
If you're an #OpaVote client and would be interested in participating in a case study, please let me know!
#RankedChoiceVoting #ElectionManagement #DemocracyAtWork
#Democracy #Voting #Election #Cooperatives #TechCooperatives
FWD from Co-operatives UK
👩💻 Job insecurity and unfair working conditions define much of today’s tech sector – but there is another way.
🌿 Hear from:
- Richard Rowley, Agile Collective (worker-owned digital agency)
- Mollie Hanley, Open Data Services
📅 Tue 16 Sept, 10:30–12:00
🌏 Secure your place now: https://buff.ly/0w0I8oI
Hi!
We're #newhere and exited to talk to you about #FLOSS, working in #techcooperatives, our #software project LAUTI - Open Source Community Calendar and much more.
We're based in Stuttgart, Germany and already run a community calendar there called EINTOPF.
Hi!
Wir sind neu hier und freuen uns mit euch über #FLOSS, IT #Kollektivbetriebe, unser Software Projekt LAUTI - Open Source Community Kalender und vieles mehr auszutauschen.
Wir sind aus Stuttgart und betreiben dort den Kalender EINTOPF.
My name is Matilda, I am a member of Greenheart Co-op. Interested in #interactiondesign, #systemsdesign and #servicedesign. Specifically in the spirit of e.g #VictorPapanek, #DonellaMeadows. Also in interested in #economics in the spirit of #KateRaworth (#DoghnutEconomics ). Furthermore interested in #tech #frontend #GrowOwnFood #mushroomfarming #TechCooperatives #neuroscience #cognitivescience
In his _Letter from a Birmingham Jail_, #MartinLutherKing emphasizes the importance of #EconomicJustice alongside #SocialJustice and criticizes how white supremacy is happy to take wealth from the hands of Black folks as customers while refusing to provide them with good jobs.
I just ran the numbers for one of my tech #WorkerCooperatives with open-comp + opt-in for self-identifying along several axes.
Non-white team members comprise 53% of our staff and receive ~56% of our total compensation.
#Cooperatives #TechCooperatives #TechCoop #WorkerCoops #SolidarityEconomy
my co-owning worker-colleague @Tensegrities at the @usfwc conference in September, chatting with @GEO_Collective’s Chris Preciado:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JXbOFgx_j0
Had a lovely chore-night with @anaulin as we did the books for #ZincCoop and published a light quarterly update with our financial statements: https://opencollective.com/zinc-community/updates/q3-2024-update
#Cooperatives #WorkerCooperatives #TechCooperatives #Tech4Good