Welcome to Digital Co-ops

Hello, I'm Steven, a co-founder of Open Data Services Co-operative.

I'm really interested in ways that we can collaborate with others to build both our organisations, but also potential tools/things for others.

John here, a kind of one man rent-a-mob.

Currently doing some work with Outlandish who are in the process of becoming a co-op.

There are a few young, digital co-ops out there and we're hoping to encourage some meaningful co-operation as Steven noted above.

Harry - co-founder of Outlandish tech co-op, builders of tools that combine complex data with beautiful UI.

Outlandish are keen to form (and potentially bootstrap) a Enspiral-UK-like organisation. AKA Tech Co-op Megazord. Very exciting times.

How doo! I'm olizilla and I co-founded TABLEFLIP.

I'm keen to be a part of the tech co-op megazord. Maybe a foot or an eye or something.

It'd be great to chat with you all some more about the practicalities of transitioning to, and maintaining a healthy co-op, long term.

Hello

Edafe - data whisperer and Open Data Services co-op-er. I'm interested in turning data into insight, stories and useful tools.

Welcome Edafe,
You're the 4th Open Data Co-op-er, I've crossed paths with (I think). Great to have you here!

Hello - Ed from Co-operative Web. We're a geeky programming co-op based in Birmingham doing all kinds of stuff from massive statistical databases to online iPad conferences webapps.

We're interested in the Megazord and also how it ties in with our own idea of The People Co-operative and where this might take us. We've also not engaged with many of the digital co-ops for a good few years so it's nice to meet a lot of new people :-)

Hi,

I'm Andy Croft - founder member of Gildedsplinters.coop. Gildedsplinters is an ideation platform consisting of 42 highly experienced creative professionals drawn from a wide range of sectors and disciplines. Marketing and advertising folk, architects, lawyers, film makers, fine artists, musicians, researchers. Our job is to have ideas - tangential ideas that provide solutions to marketing, business and organisational challenges.
Although not out and out technologists, we have a great deal of experience of working with tech companies, including many of the biggest. We whole-heartedly support the idea behind the Megazord (still think it's a great name) and relish the opportunity to become involved on any basis.

@andrewcroft @edrussell I've added your messages to the company profiles doc: https://docs.google.com/document/d/16FWC7NlVakxVFiDE7hwSCQt-lu34Znpol2Wib6KSfJk/edit#heading=h.xkxutj38dnnr

Hope that's ok -- delete or edit if not.

Cool. I'll come up with a better description once I've stopped running around sorting out clients (taking a few days off always results in a heap of small annoying jobs!)