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Argentina

Cooperatives

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Praxis Labs Coop
Réseau Koumbit: "Koumbit est un fier partisan des groupes communautaires et militants locaux et internationaux. Les choix technnologiques que nous proposons sont adaptés aux besoins de ces groupes, et construits uniquement avec des logiciels libres."

BearsTech; "une société de services en logiciel libre spécialisée dans l'hébergement et l'administration système" ; "la coopérative de production (SCOP), à taille humaine, avec un mode de gestion démocratique et une idée du management furieusement novatrice. "
Easter Eggs [1] - France: "We're all hackers (actually 12 hackers + 3 commercial) and work for customers on various free software to make money. On our spare time, we hack upon free software on our spare time. We are based on a democratic system where all co-workers have one voice to elect the CEO for the coming year, and vote for various needed stuff. We have all the same salary (even commercial) and we share benefits every year. It exists since 11 years." [2]

OSSICS, Kerala, India
WikiOcean, Pune, India, uses Weko/Reppo based governance system. Contact for info: pungaliya.ag@gmail.com

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; contact via http://www.software.coop/contact/
Webarchitects: a Sheffield based Co-operative who have been producing websites in the progressive, educational and community sectors for over a decade; "We use and develop Free-Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS) in all our work, and are able to provide sysadmin support on Client and third party servers. We are committed to sustainable development and aim to deliver all our services using renewable energy."

Chicago Technology Cooperative
Electric Embers Cooperative: "an ecologically, economically, and socially responsible worker cooperative that provides Internet hosting services and support to nonprofits, cooperatives, artists, and others contributing to the common good." (West Coast)
Flywheel Tech Collective, Cleveland
GaiaHost: "Internet hosting services from a worker-owned cooperative dedicated to environmental and social sustainability"
Gnusha [3], USA (into open manufacturing, hacklab/fablab infrastructues, etc.)
May First: May First/People Link is a politically progressive member-run and controlled organization that redefines the concept of "Internet Service Provider" in a collective and collaborative way.
TechCollective (Bay Area)

Ikusnet - Spain
OS Alliance, Austria, "Georg Pleger" <gp@osalliance.com> ; Roland Alton-Scheidl <ras@osalliance.com>; Eric Poscher <ep@osalliance.com>
Pong - Switzerland

Other contacts:

Inactive?:

KunLabori Collaborative, Sweden (no longer active, according to Josef Davies-Coates, May 2008)

Spanish-language discussion list, maintained by Gcoop in Argentina: Cooperativismo y el Software Libre
Cooperativas de Software Livre <cooperativas@listas.softwarelivre.org>
Video: Richard Esplin on Open Source Cooperative Models for Software and Technology
Video Cooperative's Code

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