Drupal Worker Cooperative

The Plan

The purpose of this document is to describe the requirements for an open community of web developers, themers, designers, accountants, server admins, marketers and customer-sales'n'support-friendly-angels to work with, not for, customers of a website.

(Crap, does this count as a "recruitment job posting"??)

let me share a story about a recent experience and perhaps it resonates around the Backdrop story

I got (Bad internet connection, server error, browser problem, Please try again shortly.)" error in drupal6?

http://lasindias.com/ multinational worker cooperative, Las Indias

In this interview, Shareable publisher Neal Gorenflo, John Robb of Global Guerrillas, and P2P foundation's Michel Bauwens talk to David de Ugarte, one of the originators of the Spanish cyberpunk scene about his more recent work developing a multinational worker cooperative, Las Indias, that is a culmination of his community's thinking and work for the last decade.

I have been created a website two years ago, Considered the sensitive of this kind of website in my country, I purchased a Java Shared Hosting in Godaddy, It has very good performance, even in China, We can connect it very fast seems like in a locale server.

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English:
I always liked to create and manage drupal projects, but it's a high time consuming task for just one person. If you work for a company you can lern a lot and it's also nice but you finally don't own the money and the work. That's why I would like to set up an ¿international? cooperative. It can allow us to work for us and do what we like.

¿Any ideas or previous experiences?¿Payment/earn methods, bug/tickets systems, managment?

Spanish:

There are many different kinds of cooperatives - worker coops, producer coops, consumer coops, social coops, housing coops, etc.

Though this group is called Drupal Worker Cooperative - it seems that the intent is not just around worker co-ops themselves, but also around fostering something like a producer (in our case, service provider) cooperative for drupal workers (say - freelancers and existing businesses/worker co-ops).

I'm curious if anyone knows if there are any Drupal cooperatives. Looking for a model.

I was thinking "Magister Declinatio" -- Master the Drop. Any other ideas?

I filmed a talk by EdVisions Cooperative, a worker cooperative, democratic school system with 60 schools...

its indirectly related, lots of similar ideas about democratic schools, worker-cooperatives, student led, project based etc
http://permaculture.tv/edvisions-cooperative-worker-coop-charter-schools/

ps: funded by the Gates Foundation, so something must be up

Whether you are a freelancer or an employee you might be interested to know there's yet another way to team up for a big Drupal project.

OSAlliance is a cooperative that is based in Austria. Many of the cooperative's members have experience with Drupal, and some of them work with it every day.

The Alliance is a way for teams, companies, and individuals to work together to get a project done and to share a central project management scheme that is designed to benefit each of the players in the project.

Front Page of Drupal Guilds (Logged-in User)

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Bylaws (version 0.9)

Definitions

Open Guilds

Open Guilds refers to the organization these Bylaws apply to. Its website is at http://openguilds.org/.

Drupal Guilds

Drupal Guilds refers to a subset of the Open Guilds, and is fully subject to the rules laid out in these Bylaws. Its website is at http://drupalguilds.org/.

Individual

An Individual must be a human being. Corporations, Organizations, or any other collection of individuals may not be considered to be an individual for purposes of these Bylaws.

1. Purpose of the Open Guilds

   Open Guilds acts as an organization for the training, certification and professionalism of practitioners of various Open Source crafts. The website at http://openguilds.org/ serves to facilitate the purposes of the organization.

Hello Comrades! :-)

I recently joined the board of the local 'CIPS' chapter, see : http://www.cips.ca

They're currently updating their 'BOK' - Body of Knowledge, so that their 'ISP' certification has more street value. I would like to propose to this group a partnership of some sort with them to this effect, ie integrate the 'Drupal Guild' practice into their framework, provide their members with associated training yadda yadda

Here is an idealized transcript of the recent Drupal Dojo session I did regarding the proposed Drupal Guilds, which you can watch here if you didn't catch it earlier:

http://blip.tv/file/4108896

Also, here are the slides I used during the presentation, which the headers generally refer to, if you want to follow along the text:

https://docs.google.com/present/view?id=dgdc84wd_79g4wmzcf9

Hello there

After a few years off I have recently become involved with Drupal again, and the title of this group caught my eye as doing so. I was curious and yes it does actually stem from our first work here. The first post for this group quotes

"User askbajwa had some ideas about a cooperative model in 2006."

That was mainly myself and Jenny that got that going as part of launching 'iFOSSF' (ifossf.org). We haven't advanced it much since then due to other directions, day jobs etc., however have been getting back into it, hence arriving back here at Drupal.

Would it be appropriate for a cooperative to use the word "Drupal" in the name and domain name of the cooperative?

Check out the Drupal Trademark page: http://drupal.com/trademark

Alex Rollin sent a note over to Dries asking if this would be allowed.

A cooperative might be called something like "Drupal Services Cooperative EU" or something like this.

The cooperative would be governed, hypothetically, by the International Cooperative Association's definitions. Check those out here: http://www.ica.coop/coop/principles.html

Specifically:

FYI, I've just submitted a group for Drupal Guilds & Open Guilds, which is a concept that I've been brewing for about a year now (based on discussions and other ideas that have taken a decade or more to gel). I've finally begun writing down some of my ideas for this this summer, and have decided it's time to open the concept for further discussion and debate. Without further ado, here is the elevator pitch for this grassroots organization:

Hi,

I work for Co-operatives UK, although UK focused you might be interested in this website aimed at people wanting to start a co-operative in the creative economy.

I built the site in Drupal :o)

http://www.uk.coop/creatives

Ryan McGarrie
Business Process and Development Officer, Co-operatives UK