Co-operation: Putting it in Writing
Presented by:
Katheryn Sutter
Katheryn Sutter PhD makes presentations at tech conferences about how to look at free-software in terms of democratic communication ideals. FOSS Developers' contributions are primarily voluntary and they build a shared commons, so FOSS communities compare well to other formal co-operative organizational-forms. Her background is in community development and policy analysis, concentrating on how to evaluate deliberations in consensus-based groups. Living and working with co-operatively minded projects her entire adult life, she also did applied and theoretical social and bio-behavioral research in university. Free software has been one of her primary interests for almost two decades.
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Just as copy-left uses principles of intellectual property rights to legally protect free and open source software, co-operatives use principles of business ownership to legally protect their collaborative relationships.
This talk is an exploration of co-operative organization forms for free and open source projects, projects that may or may not be formal entities. We'll cover a little bit of basic principles, a little bit of example tech co-operatives, and hopefully a good amount of time for questions, news and brainstorms.
No technical knowledge is assumed for this talk. It is mostly about self-organizing people, and touches a little on law.
- Date:
- 2019 November 16 - 16:15
- Duration:
- 50 min
- Room:
- TALKS 3178
- Conference:
- SeaGL 2019 - A Prime Year for Free Software
- Language:
- Track:
- People
- Difficulty:
- Easy
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