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Community Contributions by Social.coop: Nominations

AES Andrew Escobar (Andres) · social.coop Finance Working Group Tue 28 Oct 2025 2:39AM Public Seen by 167

As a member of Social‍.coop you are invited to nominate our 2025 Community Contributions: organizations and projects that support Social‍.coop and a healthy, growing, and resilient fediverse.

Nominations

Please use this thread to nominate an organization or project by sharing:

  • a brief written nomination

  • a link to a project pitch

  • a Mastodon thread

  • a fediverse hosted video

  • …it’s up to you!

Recipients should be a cooperative, a non-profit, or a registered charity — or a collective or individual associated with one.

Process

Finance Working Group (FWG) will follow a similar participatory budget process to the one used in 2024:

  • week 1: Member Nominations

  • week 2: Member Dot Votes: FWG will create a dot vote poll to enable all Social‍.coop members to participate and collectively weigh their priorities.

  • late November: FWG will meet to review the results, make a final allocation decision, and update members and recipients.

Budget & Amounts

Finance Working Group (FWG) requested 3,500 GBP for Community Contributions; the Organizing Circle approves budgets. FWG will allocate this budget to recipients based on results of the dot vote poll. We anticipate:

  • 5–10 recipients × 250–750 GBP (approx. 333–999 USD or 285–855 EUR)

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Ammar Tue 28 Oct 2025 3:46AM

I would like to nominate RTM (Resist Tech Monopolies), a young organization local to Seattle that is aiming to work with community to address technological solutions that are built by humans for humans rather than for profit.

RTM is a recent member of coop-cloud (https://docs.coopcloud.tech/federation/membership/) they host discotech events where they talk to community members are the digital tools they use and what does it take for them to start using alternatives rooted in community and doesn't harvest their data.

RTM provides important analysis to grassroots movements in Seattle to better understand the role of technology in the fight for a more equal and egalitarian future.

RTM aims to follow the lead of Mayfirst with local focus to provide email and office services that they can trust and guarantees the ownership of their data (work in progress)

RTM's points of unity here: https://resisttechmonopolies.online/PointsOfUnity/

RTM's open collective: https://opencollective.com/rtm-seattle

Note: I use they to refer to RTM but in full disclosure I'm a member and a co-founder of the group

EM

Eduardo Mercovich Thu 30 Oct 2025 7:00PM

https://MayFirst.coop/

Quoted from their own initial page:
> a non-profit membership organization that engages in building movements by advancing the strategic use and collective control of technology for local struggles, global transformation, and emancipation without borders.

I am a member of MF and they do great work (including actions to leave companies, support research on tech impact, support organizations, etc.) and they are always understaffed and underpayed.

EM

Eduardo Mercovich Thu 30 Oct 2025 7:04PM

https://Sutty.coop.ar/ (disclaimer: I am a member too, as with MayFirst).
Quoted from the initial page:
> We are a Latin American, diverse and inclusive cooperative that develops technology in the service of human, LGBTTIQANB+ and environmental rights, from a perspective of technical appropriation, technological autonomy and digital care. We work collaboratively with organizations and collectives on communication and care in digital spaces.

Sutty build a CMS (http://sutty.nl) that connects with the Fediverse, allowing cross dialogue between the web and the Fediverse. Also, it creates static-file (or pre-generated) websites, so it is quite environmentally friendly and it is free to use for non-profit organizations.

As other similar organizations, always underpayed and overworked.