Jelly is co-co-co-co-working

jelly4That’s com­mu­nity, col­lab­o­ra­tive, coop­er­a­tive, uh…co-working.

And Jelly is a bottom-up approach to get­ting telecom­muters, knowl­edge work­ers, and other shut-ins out into the world and shar­ing. From the website:

Jelly is a casual work­ing event. It’s taken place in over a hun­dred cities where peo­ple have come together (in […]

The Scale-Out Blog: Building the Open Source Hackers Cooperative

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open-source coop­er­a­tion

Now i am shar­ing with you an arti­cle by a DBA on co-ops as an answer to the cur­rent dilemma of how to sub­sist as an open-source soft­ware devel­oper.  It’s an earnest look at the need for a new model for open-source software […]

UPDATE: Cooperation Enters the National Discussion on Healthcare

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Good idea?  Bad idea?

Heck, i’m just excited to see this being seri­ously con­sid­ered on the national stage.  Adopt­ing a coop­er­a­tive health care sys­tem in this coun­try isn’t exactly tak­ing baby-steps, but it is intro­duc­ing the con­cept, and the ideals, to the standard-American whose sole source of new […]

Google supports Cooperation

From the com­pany that don’t “be evil”, a gen­er­ous and vocal ges­ture in sup­port of cooperation:

CDF Gets a $120,000 Google Grant

The Coop­er­a­tive Devel­op­ment Foun­da­tion recently received $120,000 in ad cred­its from Google.org, the non-profit arm of the search-engine giant. The grant helps CDF boost its rank­ing on the Google search engine, and helps gain greater […]

Carrotmob for change through positive cooperation

While not tech-related, this info­tain­ing video demos a coop­er­a­tive, people-based approach to change. The full vid is over 10mins and worth the time IMHO.

http://www.vimeo.com/925729

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Critical flaw in the internet that you don’t need to worry about.

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Some­times peo­ple won­der what it is that i do here all day (and some­times night) long.  Some­times nobody cares but i feel like shar­ing any­how.  Lately i’ve been patch­ing servers and shoring up our inter and intranet secu­rity.  You see…

A while back, inter­net secu­rity researchers dis­cov­ered a prob­lem with the interwebs.  […]