Software Coop
= Software.coop has members in London, Norfolk, Somerset, Berkshire, Cumbria and Edinburgh; formed 2002, the co-op hosts sites, develops web apps and managers servers for most sectors (including commercial); committed to Free and Open Source Software, the co-op includes a debian developer and a former Koha release manager;
URL = http://www.software.coop/
Description
CyberUnion Podcast, interview with MJ Ray of Software Coop:
"How does it work?
Production but consensus decision-making as far as possible – we are a collective (we fired the boss) but other co-ops like The Co-operative Group and JohnLewis Partnership look more like other hierarchical businesses.
What industry is your coop a part of?
We’re a Tech Worker Co-op… that is, we do tech and the workers are the members who run the co-op
What service or business does your coop take part in?
http://koha-community.org/ http://www.wordpress.org/ http://www.djangoproject.com/ http://www.debian.org/
How do we relate to other co-ops?
Our co-ops is a member of other co-ordinating co-ops like http://www.scotland.coop/ and http://www.uk.coop/
We prefer to trade with other co-ops, but most of our business is still with private businesses.
What is a coop?
Formal internationally-agreed definition: http://www.ica.coop/coop/principles.html "