Welcome! Please introduce yourself

Friends, we have a song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qawlthPv1dE

Well, hello tooters. Congratulations to all on the >3% shareholder vote to #buytwitter.

I am Jason, a Colorado-based cooperative developer and attorney, where I run a boutique law/consulting practice and cooperative development effort to build authentic sharing economy ventures. I focus on distributed ownership design, entity formation, financing and securities (non-extractive, non wealth-based), and general transactional services.

My practice is a certified B-Corp/public benefit corporation.

I have experience designing and forming multi-stakeholder cooperatives in the tech, online, worker, local food, farmland, healthcare, transportation and other sectors.

More information about my practice is available at www.jrwiener.com and our public benefit reports provide a high degree of transparency into our work and our social/environmental performance.

Happy to be connected and happy to help however I can.

-Jason

Welcome, Jason!

Hello! I live in the St Louis area (Missouri). I work at a credit union in the area and am a member of a second credit union. For a short while I was involved with the IWW, which has a long-term goal of essentially converting traditional businesses into worker co-ops through union actions and federating them. I don't think I'm well-suited for that kind of confrontational approach though, so I'm looking to get into the more creative side of the co-op movement. I'm a regular patron of several worker co-ops, but social.coop is the first one (other than my credit union) that I have been a member of. I heard about coop.social through the #BuyTwitter campaign. I'm excited to get involved, but still considering which working group to apply to. On social.coop, my handle is @Canvasian :sweat_smile:

P.S., I'm reluctant to name the credit union I work for just because if I do, their social media policy goes into effect, and I just find it too confusing / convoluted to risk :p but I bank at West Community Credit Union, and work at a more poverty-alleviation-focused credit union.

Wow, I forgot to post here! I'm Rory, originally from Ireland, now in Germany. I work with OpenStreetMap, and other open source stuff. I don't know much about co-ops, yous all are more knowledgeable. (Though I did co-found a hackerspace in Ireland) Though mastodon I discovered the idea of a co-op owned social network, which is something that should exist! You're opening my eyes to the existance of co-ops as an alternative to traditional shareholder owned companies!

I don't know how much I have to offer, so I'll mostly be deferring to others. But i'll help pay and cheer people on maybe. :)

Welcome to our small corner of the fediverse Rory :)

Whoops, I'm @[email protected]

Hello, I'm very excited to see social.coop get off the ground too! I work as an attorney, and my interests include coops, immigrant communities, and languages/language learning. I'm eager to help out with any cooperative governance issues and get my feet wet in this area.

Welcome! :)

Hi, I'm Steve, from Madison, WI. I'm the founder and president of the Interpreters' Co-op of Madison, and a big fan of worker co-ops in general. I'm particularly fascinated with the recovered businesses of Argentina, and, of course, with Mondragon. Not coincidentally, I'm translating books on both. My other big interest is creating a remote conference interpreting platform.