There is an important philosophical point that I would like help in clearing up. That is: For Whom Does A Worker Co-op Exist? Does it exist for the customers?...
From: "Doug" <doug07031863@...> ... for the workers ... No. If the business fails, then it can't pay the workers which clearly isn't in the workers'...
Doug, I agree with some of your points here and I'd like to respectfully differ from a number of your other ideas as represented here. I have interspersed my...
I have no real interest in security but I have some comments. First, most security work is for big companies and this depends on enterprise sales. This is not...
Hi - Gary Brown here at Beluga Software Cooperative. I joined this group, finally, late last week. By way of introduction I can say that I've met David...
I'll take my cut at this.. ... The community. My interpretation is that co-ops are not really owned by anyone. They are more like clubs, with memberships...
Is this a list for theoretical issues on setting up a worker's coop for programmers, or have people actually set up coops? Do you have any info on Beluga...
Eric Chiu
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Hi Eric, Gary Brown is from Beluga Software Cooperative. I'm with Outformations Robert M. Pritchett works in quasi-cooperative company called RMP Consulting...
Others have pointed out that the workers really do need for it to succeed, but your description below does seem to match RMPCP, or at least where I'm coming ...
... Hi Gary, I'm glad that you have joined and look forward to your insights from somebody who is in a functioning software developer co-op. ... When you get...
... My guess is that the majority of people in this list have not actually set up a co-op. One purpose of the list is to figure out how to start more co-ops...
Thanks for the info. I enjoyed talking to you last night and thought afterwards how nice it would be if we lived in the same area and could go out for a few...
... DS: I think it depends on *how* the workers are paid. I've always thought that freedom is directly proportional to the number of customers. If the...
... DS: David, what do we mean by managing and supervising? Shouldn't these behaviors be replaced with something like collaboration? Maybe collaboration...
... Gary, most of what you said I don't have a problem with. But at the ... I just think there's a problem if a person is happy to be led. I don't think it's...
There is an important philosophical point that I would like help in clearing up. That is: For Whom Does A Worker Co-op Exist? Does it exist for the customers?...
Regarding Cooperative Principles, they have evolved some since the 19th Century - the Principles we use in our Cooperative, for training the Membership, were...
I'm of the opinion that starting a co-op can't be done very well over the Internet. I think that it has to be done locally. I've approached people at...
Good points. We've been an ICCA member firm for years and like it. I even thought of writing an article for the ICCA's magazine on coops and soliciting ...
It doesn't appear that there is much need for privacy at the moment, and Franklin has a point about being available to Google for searching. Since there...
... would be ... David, You are certainly welcome to help moderate. For that matter, anybody who has some ideas about what to do with the group is welcome to...
Paul, I was unable to construct the link. What is the title of the article? - Doug ... __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? U2 on...
Evidently it's case-sensitive. Robert M. Pritchett - RMP Consulting Partners LLC - member ICCA Quality means doing it right the first time - http://rmpcp.com ...
Doug, Sorry the URL "broke up in transmission." The title of the article is Tech Futures Where workers and investors will find opportunities in the years ahead...
Paul, I found the article at http://www.sfgate.com/technology/beat/ but this might vanish tomorrow, since this isn't an archive. This article discusses how...
My take on the article was different. I thought he was saying: well, there isn't any new "killer technology" on the horizon, but any number of American...
I originally posted this on programmercoops and someone replied on Janet's board but Janet deleted that entire forum, so I want to get a wider response from...
I'm looking for the best state to incorporate a co-op in, see comments below that I gathered from my other postings elsewhere... but mostly the ideal criteria...
Hi Robert - it seems to me that will have to work through the issue of "trust". Worker Cooperatives, by their nature, control their own administration;...
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