Co-ops: 'Open Source' Capitalism
E146 | Sun 16 Jul 2 p.m.–3 p.m.
Presented by
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Joel Brock
https://techsupport.coop
Joel is a founding member of the Tech Support Cooperative, a worker-owned IT services co-op working extensively with free and open source solutions. The Tech Support Co-op grew around an open source Point of Sale software that was being developed and propagated throughout the national food co-op industry. The Tech Support Co-op formed among key collaborators within that software development community to address a lack of any formal support for the software, and to better coordinate future development.
Joel has 20+ years experience working at the intersection of technology and cooperation. He brings a unique dedication to the cooperative business model and hopes that he can share some of his enthusiasm for co-ops with you.
Joel Brock
https://techsupport.coop
Joel is a founding member of the Tech Support Cooperative, a worker-owned IT services co-op working extensively with free and open source solutions. The Tech Support Co-op grew around an open source Point of Sale software that was being developed and propagated throughout the national food co-op industry. The Tech Support Co-op formed among key collaborators within that software development community to address a lack of any formal support for the software, and to better coordinate future development.
Joel has 20+ years experience working at the intersection of technology and cooperation. He brings a unique dedication to the cooperative business model and hopes that he can share some of his enthusiasm for co-ops with you.
Abstract
Do you really know what a co-op is? Come to learn what it means to be in business cooperatively and why the co-op business model is unique the world over.
And what (if anything) that has to do with Open Source software.
Do you really know what a co-op is? Come to learn what it means to be in business cooperatively and why the co-op business model is unique the world over. And what (if anything) that has to do with Open Source software.