Co-op handbook

Hi all

People may have seen this from the Loomio team: http://loomio.coop/ - really interesting, in terms of openly documenting / sharing how a co-op works

For those interested, the code is all up at https://github.com/loomio/loomio-coop-handbook

Strikes me as something digital co-ops in the UK could easily collaborate / iterate on ....

Thanks

Steven

And related;

Gildedsplinters Coop Rules, Membership Agreement etc available from me

Rules are fairly 'standard' but the Membership Agreement has been framed to account for the complexities of copyright relating to 'ideas' within the current legal framework so may be of use to anyone else who has that headache

Forza!

Roy

We've been thinking of forking http://badges.thinkoutloudclub.com into an online resource. GitHub repo is here: https://github.com/thinkoutloudclub/badge-course :)

Doug Belshaw
We Are Open Co-op

See also the Enspiral handbook too of course https://handbook.enspiral.com/

And stuff like the GitLab handbook as well I guess https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/

See also this similar thread in the Worker Co-op fb group (where I note John Atherton is asking for some help getting the Work Co-op Code nicely into gitbook): https://www.facebook.com/groups/workercoops/permalink/10154426934989101/

This is kinda sorta relevant too I guess
https://github.com/CoMakery/self-organization-constitution

We started a handbook thing: https://www.gitbook.com/book/harryrobbins/outlandish/details and reading list.

We looked at Open Badges too as mentioned by @dougbelshaw but decided to go with other stuff as the infrastructure was rather cumbersome and they mostly seem to be adopted for basic IT skills courses and the like.

One thing we'd be really interested in are some agreements about how megazord members could work with each other. e.g. how can we lower the barriers to sharing work within the network

I've added your Outlandish docs as a pull request to the Gitbook examples page :) https://github.com/GitbookIO/gitbook/pull/1549

'One thing we'd be really interested in are some agreements about how megazord members could work with each other. e.g. how can we lower the barriers to sharing work within the network'

Looks like a 'Topic' to me. Add?

Happy to go through Open Badges any time with @harryrobbins and anyone else. We're beyond 'basic IT skills courses' as a community at this point! I think it would be a great way to recognise co-operative values :)

Never heard of Open Badges before. Looks quite cool.

Our co-op (We Are Open) spend quite a bit of time helping people around this. Here's something that Bryan Mathers and I put together for City & Guilds: http://badges.thinkoutloudclub.com

I see Loomio has just launched this: http://loomio.school which promises to be helpful.