I want to start Canadian member-owned cooperative to run Mastodon servers in Canada.
Similar to social.coop but Canadian.
Notes here:
https://evanp.gitlab.io/canadian-mastodon-cooperative
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@bmann @trishussey @blaine @timbray @hypatia @walkah @awsamuel
@bmann @trishussey @blaine @timbray @hypatia @walkah @awsamuel
Canadian member-run co-op
2. 1 co-op membership gets you 1 fediverse account with fixed allowances (uploads, API use, toots per day, etc.) plus a co-op vote
3. has local services per neighbourhood or city, but membership is national
4. run a first emergency server nationally to catch the next wave of Twitter migration
@bmann @trishussey @blaine @timbray @hypatia @walkah @awsamuel
- 4 other people to be directors/incorporators. Diverse voices, including women and nonbinary, 2SLGTBQIA+, Black, Indigenous, fr/en, needed up front.
- Someone to fill out the paperwork
- Someone to collect and manage $$
- Someone(s) to set up the server on Canadian k8s service
@evan Betting @timbray is probably right.
If you want another option: I spun up a Linode server with Cloudron (essentially a cloud app store) and had an instance up and running in about 20 minutes.
I used it for testing and then shut it down after a few days but it was quick and painless to get going.
This is the future home of CoSocial.ca, an all-Canadian Mastodon cooperative. We will be online by late November 2022 so that you can have your own Canadian home on Mastodon—and help build this community together. We are inclusive and committed to building a diverse founding coalition that will jointly create the community vision, guidelines and moderation policies. If you want to be part of that process—or get notified when the instance is online, and ready for signups—please fill in this form. For more about this effort (including the experienced team of Mastodon admins & coop members who are helping it get off the ground) please follow the #CoSocialCa tag on Mastodon.
@Aphrodite @evan @bmann @trishussey @blaine @hypatia @walkah @awsamuel
Note that VanCity is well-set-up to do business with co-ops: https://www.vancity.com/BusinessBanking/Financing/SpecializedSectorSolutions/Cooperatives/
So i'd recommend starting there once incorporation is filed. As I said, happy to do the grunt work.
Vancity invests in co-operative businesses through our high impact lending and investment programs. We support co-operatives to be successful by providing products, programs, and services to help them grow— from early planning to start-up and launch, right through to sustainability and expansion.
@Aphrodite @evan @bmann @trishussey @blaine @hypatia @walkah @awsamuel
Urgh, not sure masto is the best place for a threaded organizational discussion. Someone got an idea for a better channel? Anyhow, I've been looking, it's pretty easy and cheap to register a Canada Federal-level co-op.
Um… We have to pick a name and it has to be unique. It costs $10 to check. If we want to converge on a small number of candidates, I can run the checks & will cover costs.
@timbray @Aphrodite @bmann @trishussey @blaine @hypatia @walkah @awsamuel
I'm working on the paperwork! I figured "Cosocial Cooperative" for the name
There are several Canadian Mastodon servers already and a couple of us are looking into starting up some more (for Toronto and Ottawa respectively)— how can existing servers fit into this?
(BTW am formerly of social.coop)
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