Interesting events (elsewhere)

And, by magic, here's one!

Freeing the Freelancer: Co-op solutions to modern freelancing

Dates:Saturday 15th October 2016
Times:9.30AM-4PM
Location:CAN Mezzanine, 7-14 Great Dover St, London SE1 4YR
Price:£75-£50

http://www.stirtoaction.com/workshops/alt-gen

Good move @stevenflower Here's a couple of others that I'm aware of:

November in New York: "Platform Cooperativism: Building the Cooperative Internet" http://platformcoop.net/2016

And in London in Feb 2017: "OPEN: PLATFORM COOPERATIVES" https://conference.open.coop
"Imagine a transparent, democratic and decentralised economy which works for everyone. A society in which anyone can become a co-owner of the organisations on which they, their family & their community depend. A world where everyone can participate in all the decisions that affect them."

I'll be at that NYC one and am part of the organising team for the Open 2017 one in London too - thanks for sharing them :)

Great to learn that there will be someone from the UK attending this event. Last year's was a great start, so I'm expecting more good stuff out of this one.

See also these next week (Oct 4th) from Enspiral (run by the same people who it looks like you're considering for the retreat, so likely worthwhile for some Outlandish/ other London people to attend to see what it is like ;) )

https://www.eventbrite.co.nz/e/open-enspiral-working-in-a-participatory-organisation-london-half-day-tickets-27252824933

And this ShareLab from Nesta on 1 November http://www.nesta.org.uk/event/sharelab-social-value-collaborative-economy

And this on Oct 18: Alternatives to Capitalism: The Solidarity Economy Perspective in London also interesting too methinks https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/alternatives-to-capitalism-the-solidarity-economy-perspective-tickets-27829042415

As is this great series of workshops organised by Stir http://www.stirtoaction.com/workshops

Coops UK Practitioner Forum is always good - this year it's on the 17 Nov, which clashes with the Wortley Hall gig?

http://www.uk.coop/PF16

Shame it's in Manchester, I wonder if they'd move it to a workers' stately home in Sheffield instead...

Physical:

https://events.newschool.edu/event/platform_cooperativism_building_the_cooperative_internet

Virtual:

http://platformcoop.net/about/consortium

https://www.facebook.com/groups/897768210315282/

We (Outlandish) are organising an event on 4th November at Newspeak House in London called Tech for Good? It's a combined event to mark the end of the Outlandish Fellowship, and as a sort of lead-in event to the Megazord event. Would be great to see digital co-op people there. Event page:

https://attending.io/events/outlandish-tech-for-good

I saw early bird tickets for platform coop (16/17 Feb, London) are due to end n 9th Dec: https://2017.open.coop/tickets/

Interesting livestreamed debate on Platform Coops now happening online: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbXbrcfvIrM
Speakers include Chris Cook, Nathan Schnieder and Douglas Rushkoff

Thanks Vica. V.interesting

If anyone is interested in digging into local government finance, on the 14th of January I am organising a hackday with DebtResistanceUK at Newspeak House (people can also participate remotely online).
More info and registration HERE.
Feel free to forward the invitation to anyone you think might be interest.

More news than event, but didn't know where else to post it...
LocalGov Digital to become a co-op... so might be worth getting in touch and offering support.

http://www.techuk.org/insights/news/item/10190-localgov-digital-confirm-plans-to-become-a-co-operative

James mentioned OpenTech 2017 in Slack, it is (I assume) in London on Saturday 13th May 2017, £5 on the door and they have a open call for talks -- anyone available to offer to do one on co-ops, tech and CoTech?