I think I may have mentioned this last time nominations were opened, and I'll mention it again because I think it is strategically important, even crucial, that progressive projects and organisations are not forced into using extractive corporate organisations when it comes to selecting digital infrastructure providers. Relying on Big Tech is antithetical to our shared values, and yet time and again I see cases where money is being handed over to the likes of AWS when it should be being used to support the solidarity economy. Hence my nomination is the as yet unbranded cloud hosting platform that is under active development by Webarchitects.coop and which is planned to launch in the first half of 2026. This is a costly undertaking (each server costs something like £10,000-£15,000 and several are needed just to set up a minimum viable service). Every penny counts, and contributions can potentially be recognised in the form of discounted future use credits, and in membership of the cooperative.

I back Sutty (disclaimer, I'm associated with Sutty and work with them regularly. Nothing but good things to say about them) and also Bonfire, who are longtime allies and working on critical infrastructure.

I'd like to nominate Technostructures, a non-profit association based in France with radical objectives based on a great definition of decent software.

Technostructures are active contributors to the Fediverse, being the developers behind Kazarma (a bridge between ActivityPub and Matrix), and a project called Imago, which is for assisting collectives with federating governance (an important problem for the example in the case of diffuse strikes). Imago is being built with Matrix, but is to be bridged to ActivityPub via Kazarma. Beyond the development work, Technostructures are notable for their support of other projects in libre tech, their decent input to discussions on the future of the web, politics, and the commons and for their part in our ecosystem of hackers and commoners.

I don't work for Technostructures, but I've appreciated the help and advice they've given me on my work in Games Commons.

They've received support previously from Fondation de France and from NGI, but I know that they are in need of funding, to pay a full a few full-time staff members including one or two juniors for whom Technostructures has been an introduction into a better approach to tech (and a better approach to work).

I'd like to nominate IFTAS https://about.iftas.org and EFF https://www.eff.org

@Melissa Santos amazing proposals, thank you, +1!

I will add ORG openrightsgroup.org to balance the geographic representation and recognize the fiscal host, technical hosts, and (perhaps soon) legal hosts social‍.coop works with that are cooperatives registered in the United Kingdom.

We already contribute to meet.coop because of the BigBlueButton instance they provide, but this might be a good moment to consider the amount we contribute to meet.coop for the purpose of running also the jitsi.meet.coop Jitsi Meet instance long term if they choose to do that.

Maybe 1,080 GBP (current, thanks Andrew) is the right amount, but we could take a moment to check with them/align on plans and costs?

@flancian Finance Working Group decided not to add Loomio and Meet.coop given amount received for service this year, but this does not preclude Tech Working Group (for example) from requesting a specific budget to fund a jitsi instance and/or cooperating with Meet‍.coop directly.

I am nominating the International Symposium on Co-operative Identity to sponsor/encourage/support a panel, study presentation, or talk on the importance of federated media and the fediverse.

(disclosure: I serve on the board of Co-operative Management Education Co-operative).

Am I too late to add Framasoft to the list? They have created and made available so many useful tools and helped me and others de-googlify. https://degooglisons-internet.org/en/

@mattnoyes I added this before a self-imposed noon deadline but after the *second* member voted — thus the discrepancy in voters for Framasoft.