... worker ... and 2 are ... on steps 1 ... to ... members ... What I have observed: a) workercoop is primarily interested in 4. It talks about patronage...
... Yes, I would recommend moving programmercoops and see if anybody objects. ... I think that ezboard would be a cleaner solution for aggregating co-op...
24 members!? That's a lot compared to the very few of our 85+ registered mostly-inactive members which are really interested in participating actively in RMPCP...
I frequent Janet's board and also the Open IT forum there, and it seems workable. Perhaps we should consolidate programmercoop, workercoop, and workerownedcoop...
I am open to the idea of using a forum but ezBoard is no good because its URLs contain "?" which means that they won't get indexed in Google. If we agree to...
... Robert, It's true that there are 24 members, but email groups are funny beasts. Most people just observe. Look at the number of people who anonymously ...
... The messages do get indexed. Try typing in "Open IT Forum" into Google and you will see some hits on http://pub21.ezboard.com/bopenitforum. However, I...
From: "Doug" <doug07031863@...> ... Google will sometimes index URLs with a "?" but won't follow any links from that page. With ezboard, only the first...
Hi everyone, I just joined your group. I am Prof. Jorge V. Sibal of the University of the Philippines School of Labor and Industrial Relations in Diliman,...
Welcome Jorge, Glad you could join us! I'd love to see any of your coop course materials and/or bibliography if you are willing to share. Thanks, --David...
Hi, I live in Brasilia where I'm involved in the formation of a new co-op. It is located in one of the poorer outlying communities called Sao Sebastiao. The...
Peace to all, I'm currently involved in setting up a worker-owned cooperative that will be a cafe oriented towards activists, artists, and members of...
You might see if the co-op statute of another state is better and if the DC treatment of foreign co-ops isn't too bad. Also LLC's are great for flexibility and...
Please find below my course outline on "Coops and other Labor Enterprises". My course website is http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ir216-A . Regards. Prof. Jorge...
Good day! I'm Roderick Bugador from the Philippines, I graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Science in Cooperative Development. Now I'm studying in Kyoto...
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...
... Are there tax advantages for a company that is established as a co-op as opposed to a LLC which has by-laws that implement the 7 cooperative principles? ...
The only one I know of for sure that's all pro and no con is that it's exempt from the 4.5% TX state income (franchise) tax which regular corp's and LLC's have...
Roderick, Hello and welcome to the group. If you are looking for resources on worker owned cooperatives, there are several on the net. One you might like to...
Hello all, My name is Treesong, and I am one of several co-owners of a bookstore called Rosetta News Collective in Carbondale, Illinois (USA). On paper, our...
HO! HO! HO! I have an early Christmas Present for you! I just discovered a really Super Mentoring site AND....the owner is giving it away FREE for Christmas!!...
Our consulting firm is sort of like a partnership and sort of like a co-op, it's an LLC. If you've set up a general partnership, incorporate it as an LLC asap...
Sorry for any duplication or if you don't want this message, I had to reach everyone I know who has expressed interest or might be likely to, since we need to...
DIG (http://www.digdb.com/) is my current project. It is desktop data query/analysis tool. It needs a lot more work to be a really viable product. I wrote...
Sounds interesting, I'll have to look when I get a chance. Robert M. Pritchett - RMP Consulting Partners LLC - member ICCA Quality means doing it right the...