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I joined a mailing list recently that discusses tech coops: https://npogroups.org/lists/info/tech-coop Some interesting discussion.

I found a repo with a lot of information and companies here: https://github.com/hng/tech-coops

It's really unclear to me how you would go about joining an existing studio like this. At least in North America, there are so few, I think the answer is to start one yourself.

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You join a coop the same way you do any other company as well as the joining the cooperative normally after a probation

I understand that. But I find the diversity of positions available to be low in the collective space. I'm curious, do you work in a collectively owned setting? What is your tech stack and customer base? Do you ever hire new people from outside your network?

I Used to work at Poptel back in the early 2000's and back then I was mostly on the ASP side we also use LAMP.

Poptel was also a very early ISP / ADMD (x.400) mail provider

I answered an advert in the Guardian. COOP's tend to be liberal if not left wing and attract members/workers with liberal or Left wing politics - the USA coops are not as strongly Left wing compared the the US ones.

I am using UK/EURO definitions here

Super! This is really helpful, basically nailed my question with a flood of resources. Thanks

https://electricembers.coop//pubs/TechCoopHOWTO.pdf

Hey thanks!

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