Re: [tlug] Introduction to (Tech) Worker Cooperatives, 09:00AM on Sunday, July 12th JST

[Yasuaki Kudo <yasu@example.com>]

Hi everyone,

There is an active tech worker cooperative discussion site https://community.coops.tech/ for more info 😄

And again, please do join the discussion if you can at 09:00AM this Sunday! 😄

I am just a regular computer programer at a financial software company but I am trying to develop the Japanese business for meet.coop , an aspiring "zoom-replacement" multi-stakeholder international cooperative in its infancy.

While it may not change my occupation immediately, it hope it will cultivate the environment for tech worker coops in Japan. 

There is a weekly meeting tonight. https://forum.meet.coop/t/weekly-progress-meeting-thursday-9-july/183/2

Since it has been only me from Japan or even Asia Pacific, anyone else from here would be also welcome!

There has also been a long-running discussion on its governance model.

https://forum.meet.coop/t/governance-model/128/87

Cheers,

Yasu

On Jul 9, 2020, at 17:45, furkan@example.com wrote:

Hello,

I'm watching the thread, so much stuff to learn. Especially the details about
cooperatives in Germany. I will look into details of these.

We're running a semi-cooperative company (legally a KK though) in Japan, called
Rainlab. ( another shameless plug, https://rainlab.co.jp )

Although economically it's a cooperative, management wise it's mostly a BDFL approach.
It's more like nested 個人事業(individual businesses) under a corporation, benefiting
a shared public entity. etc.

So far (8~ years,) it is seriously difficult to achieve a reasonably fair internal
system. Definitely depends on software to calculate all the things. And needs fairness
/convinience trade-offs sometimes.

Cooperative management wise, actual cooperativeness of all members vary a lot, and
it effects many details. It all boils down to the mixture of people I guess. I find
it very difficult to manage something collectively in a democratic way, or a full
consensus way, or anarchist way. Although some expermental democratic methods could
be tried..

I'm very interested in discussions regarding this matter.

Furkan Mustafa