Community Contributions by Social.coop: Nominations
Andrew Escobar (Andres) · social.coop Finance Working Group
Tue 28 Oct 2025 2:39AM
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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 • Loomio notification
week 2: Member Nominations • Open Collective notification
week 3: 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)
Stacco Troncoso Wed 5 Nov 2025 10:06AM
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.
Games Commons Thu 6 Nov 2025 2:57PM
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).
Graham · Wed 5 Nov 2025 9:40AM
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.