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Wed 27 Mar 2024 9:42PM

Please Suggest Projects for SC to contribute to... (from FWG)

JD Josh Davis Public Seen by 208

This thread is an Invitation to Community Contribution Budgeting.  The first annual budget for Social.coop passed on March 18, 2024. https://www.loomio.com/d/xqw7FtUT/toward-an-annual-budget. We agreed to distribute funds as part of a "Community Contribution." The Finance Working Group (FWG) invites your suggestions to advise us on the possible organizations that we might support. For this year, the amount budgeted is £3,400. To begin with we will be distributing £1,700, which is half the total amount. We would like your suggestions for worthy projects and organizations. 

This participatory budget process will proceed in parts. First, in a Question Round Poll, you suggest organizations to receive SC donations. After this poll, we will create a "Dot Vote" proposal, so we can weigh our collective priorities. You will also be able to add options at that point. We are thinking to fund 3-5 organizations. And, finally, the FWG will review the results, make a final decision, and announce the beneficiaries in this thread. 

Please name a project and provide a one or two-sentence rationale for SC to support them by April 4th, 2024. (We prefer projects that take donations through Open Collective, for ease of payment, but we will also consider projects and organizations that do not use the platform.) 

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Johannes Ernst Wed 27 Mar 2024 9:47PM

Where do you want those suggestions? Right here in the comments?

If so, I suggest Mastodon GmbH. We are using their software, and benefit from it, and they operate on a shoe string, so they should get some money. Donation link: https://joinmastodon.org/sponsors#donate

JD

Josh Davis Wed 27 Mar 2024 9:58PM

@Johannes Ernst Yes, just put your suggestions here. We were planning on having a "Question Round Poll" here, but that option appears to have been removed.

CWF

Caitlin Waddick, Finance Working Group for Social.Coop and Organizing Circle Wed 27 Mar 2024 10:04PM

@Josh Davis @Nathan Schneider. Nathan, Josh and I read through the help files for Loomio. The "Question Round" poll is described in the help files, but was not available when we went to create the poll!

CWF

Caitlin Waddick, Finance Working Group for Social.Coop and Organizing Circle Mon 15 Apr 2024 3:50PM

For anyone following this discussion, the Question Round poll option in Loomio is there, but it was hidden at the time that Josh and I posted this thread. The option is now unhidden from view. (How is it all possible?)

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Daniel Thu 28 Mar 2024 2:48AM

Full disclosure: I only know of them by research, not my own active use. I would love to see recommendations by users.

PixelFed: strengthens the fediverse's image-sharing capabilities and promotes a privacy-focused alternative to mainstream photo platforms.

PeerTube: open-source decentralized video hosting challenges the dominance of centralized video platforms.

JNM

J. Nathan Matias Thu 28 Mar 2024 3:16AM

Thanks for hosting this participatory process! My one suggestion is:

[IFTAS: federated trust & safety](https://about.iftas.org/). This nonprofit is networking and supporting moderators of fediverse instances, developing legal guides on trust/safety issues, and working on developing moderation tools for the fediverse on CSAM and other very sensitive issues with legal implications. I believe they [accept donations through Givebutter here](https://givebutter.com/iftas-supporter), though we would want to double-check that's their preferred channel if we decided to donate.

AR

Alex Rodriguez Thu 28 Mar 2024 6:18PM

I'm working on a cooperative open-source music distribution platform called Mirlo that's about to launch its first fundraising campaign, it would be lovely to have some support from folks here! Contributions can be made here: Mirlo: Mirlo. Or reach out to me directly (here or on Mastodon @[email protected]) and we can set up an ACH transfer. There will be a Kickstarter up soon, too.

Sociocracy for All is a worthy nonprofit doing important work in this space, seems relevant given that we're trying on some of the tools from their toolbox with this iteration of our governance.

NS

Nathan Schneider Fri 29 Mar 2024 1:42AM

I nominate the tools we use but don't currently pay for:

  • Mastodon

  • Matrix

As well as some co-op tech projects that could support future infrastructure:

And some aligned fediverse projects we might someday adopt:

  • Bonfire

  • Hometown

  • Fediforum

  • IFTAS

KT

Kathe TB Fri 29 Mar 2024 10:57AM

@Nathan Schneider For what it's worth, I would strongly support contributing to any open source project we currently use but do not contribute to. Or increasing those contributions if they are low.

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