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@zzt So... people don't like FLOSS that incorporates slop code. And people don't like FLOSS that considers slavery to be acceptable.

I think that @DemocraticTechFund has come along at just the right time.

Opinie in Het Parool: ‘Amsterdam heeft geen nieuwe groeimotor nodig, maar een nieuwe economie’.

Directeur van Commons Network en voorzitter van MeentCoop, @SophieB en lid van MeentCoop, Marieke van Doorninck, pleitten voor een nieuwe economie in plaats van een nieuwe groeimotor. Nu de groei van de regio tegen grenzen aanloopt, vragen ze de stad om economisch beleid dat Amsterdammers centraal zet.

De bouwstenen zijn er al: energie- en wooncoöperaties, platformen van bewoners en projecten als Community Wealth Building. Hun oproep: maak er geen pilots van, maar voer dit stadsbreed in.

Lees hier het hele artikel: https://www.parool.nl/cs-b722ecbf/

One of our members is Platformcoops in Germany. They work for a sustainable economy in which the interests of people & nature are at the center.

"We design and support cooperative systems that redistribute ownership and participation across digital and analogue economies. Our work connects founding platform cooperatives, cooperative business succession (workers’ buyouts) and cooperative finance – driven by the conviction that a fair, democratic and common-good economy is possible." platformcoops.de/en/

They became #DTFmembers to organise one of the DTF workshops at the @dweb@social.coop Camp last July, help connect the community and act as funding stewards, reviewing incoming projects and providing mentoring where possible. Plus a financial contribution at our OpenCollective.

We are very thankful for having you onboard, @ela@social.platformcoop.de @andreas@social.platformcoop.de and team! #PlatformCoops #DemocraticTech #SSE #DWeb #commons

Hi @happyborg@indieweb.social. Please check out our layered information approach here: social.democratictech.fund/p...

@Wtebbens@social.coop @Sophie@mastodon.nl @bjoernsta@eimsbuettel.social @savesocial@mastodon.savesocial.eu @Digi_tien@mastodon.social @Framasoft@framapiaf.org @mellifluousbox@mastodon.social

We are a community network with a growing complexity, therefore we have a layered information approach. You can peel it like an onion:

1. DTF Website provides the highlevel why, what, how, who: democratictech.fund/
2. In the JOIN process you go through the foundational documents, our shared mission, Social Contract and Code of Cooperation: docs.democratictech.fund/s/5...
3. Once you're in as member, with your DTF account you get access to our Documentation, and to our matrix space, to see how we organise, and contribute where you can
4. Our crowd fund platform can be accessed with your DTF account, or with a Goteo account (over 400.000 people): crowd.democratictech.fund
5. Also we are exploring, learning and shaping how we organise our "connected community space" right here in our #Bonfire instance. All DTF members are welcome to join this exciting adventure. But be aware of the creative chaos this space is currently in 😉

More media spaces will be popping up; be sure to follow this account.

Today many of our friends gather at the European Social event in Berlin, with @newsmast @Sophie @bjoernsta @savesocial @Digi_tien @Framasoft @mellifluousbox

Good to see so many #DTF members together, and hoping we can welcome some community centred projects to be funded at the @DemocraticTechFund platform.

The Call for Proposals is open: https://democratictech.fund/news/dtf-launches-crowd-fund-platform-and-opens-call-for-proposals/

Building social capacity together for collective #DigitalAutonomy

On Wednesday we'll have a DTF event with our members @ela@social.platformcoop.de
@andreas@social.platformcoop.de and @Wtebbens@social.coop to talk about Democratising the Economy, with #DemocraticTech, platformcoops.de/events/demo...

We are building this as an international alliance, a federation of members. At #Mozfest we came together with some of the co-founders, like @fkinstitute@social.coop, @platoniq@mastodon.social, #goteo @newsmast@backend.newsmast.org, @commonsnetwork@todon.nl, and several brave individual members; thanks for your presence @sabinacuccibar@cyberplace.social Vera from @coopdescommuns@mamot.fr /@vgrass@chaos.social

Together we aim to support projects willing to campaign for their projects at the DTF platform. Read our Call for Projects democratictech.fund/news/dtf...

#DTF Let’s get Down To Fund!

Yes! We just launched the DTF crowd fund platform. We came together with a dozen members at #MozFest during the Open Tech Week in Barcelona and presented the new platform, having some wonderful conversations. Thanks to #MozFest26 and @X_net@mastodon.social

We talked people willing to create their project to raise funding from and with the community; small donations by many people add up to drive collective projects. That is the experience we have after 15 years of running thousands of campaigns at the Spanish Goteo.org platform. Over 400.000 people donated over 25 million euro.

Hi @MarloesdeKoning@nrc.social thanks for your questions. Note that DTF is a bottom-up fund, it is all brought together by the members. Now, we are launching the the DTF crowd fund platform, a space where community centred projects can campaign to broaden their community, get donations and in kind contributions so they can realize their ideas. As a community and federation of members we aim to support projects that take back control over the tech they need to realise their social mission. Today at #MozFest in Barcelona we're launching irl!

Then the second phase is to bring in public and private institutions running match funding programmes with us, to multiply th eimpact of the campaigns.

We're glad to dive deeper into this. #dtf let's get down to fund.

@politipet@piaille.fr @eurosky.social@bsky.brid.gy @bsky.brid.gy@bsky.brid.gy

We are now! Thanks for the reminder!

@unchartedworlds@scicomm.xyz thanks for the question! We haven't got a formal policy here, but it is our shared mission to broaden social capacity for the transition towards collective digital autonomy. LLMs from BigTech corporations don't increase our digital autonomy, but instead add an increased layer of dependencies, apart from the various forms of damage tey inflict on people and planet.

Autonomous, local or collectively run services of the type might help collectives? Maybe, let's see the concrete proposals. How's the sustainability of people and planet helped by such services? What do you suggest, do you have relevant policy examples on this front that you could contribute?

What do we propose?

• shared learning and mutual aid: a community where people share their transition towards collective digital autonomy
• tech: Cooperative tools and infrastructure communities actually own and govern.
• fund: A methodology to pool money and fund communities' projects, without holding the funds.
• federation: Solidarity and shared infrastructure across borders, as a collaborative community network.

Find out more at: democratictech.fund/

Hello world, hello Fediverse! We’re opening up our own presence here. We are the Democratic Tech Fund. We build and fund contra-infrastructure: tools, learning and mobilisation for communities that refuse to rent their digital lives from Big Tech. We’re a bottom-up organised federation. Join us.