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Fri 12 May 2023 1:14PM

Cooperative IT would like to join CoTech

CLF Chris Lowis (Go Free Range) Public Seen by 90

We have a new application to join CoTech. David Carpenter says:

We're a relatively new IT worker coop. I was one of the original founders of Open Data Services back in the day, so I was aware of CoTech back then.

We're based in the Bradford district and were working mainly on websites and support for community organisations.

It would be good to be involved with CoTech as a member.

Our Articles are attached.

New applications to join CoTech are a member vote as per the constitution so I’ll start a vote on this thread. You can view their articles of association in the attached PDF.

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Graham Thu 18 May 2023 12:34PM

@Nick Greenhill (Co-op Web)Is that still a thing?

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Nick Greenhill (Co-op Web) Thu 18 May 2023 12:41PM

@Graham not sure tbh, I thought they were but I’m now assuming not if they’ve been able to register a new Coop in that name. As I say, it’s just I saw the name and instantly thought them and assume others will have the same reaction. Again probably not our concern but thought I’d mention it just in case

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Shaun Fensom Thu 18 May 2023 9:35PM

Checked out Companies House - see screenshot. This one has no hyphen and is an ordinary share company - unusual for a co-op but not impossible. The old one I remember grew out of OSG, later Midcounties.coop and looks to have converted to a co-op society and then dissolved in 2021. This one had a hyphen!

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David Carpenter Mon 22 May 2023 2:57PM

Hello David Carpenter here from Cooperative IT - Thanks for voting and taking the time to comment everyone. Just thought I'd jump in on the Cooperative IT name. When we were setting up, I just threw the name into google and thought it wasn't available because of the old company/coop that had been using it. We didn't know them, or know of them. But seeing that it had been dissolved, we realised we could use the name - and yeah we dropped the hyphen. There was a domain available and social accounts etc, and that's half the battle with a name right!? So, we don't have a connection with the old company, but here we are. Looking forward to being part of the wider community.

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David Carpenter Fri 26 May 2023 9:28AM

Thanks folks. Looking forward to getting involved.