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| **Elevator Pitch** | **Elevator Pitch** | ||
| - | A worker-owned cooperative | + | A Canada based worker-owned cooperative that provides commodity online services such as email, file hosting, photo hosting, etc. |
| ===== Motivation ===== | ===== Motivation ===== | ||
| - | ... | + | Seeking alternatives to online services not based on exploitation and extraction -- of user data, privacy, profit, control, resources -- and which actively resist takeover and consolidation of control and wealth in the hands of a few large corporations, |
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| + | While the centralization of control in a few US based companies is a specific problem, simply having a " | ||
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| + | ===== Goals ===== | ||
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| + | Provide independent, | ||
| + | * not dependent on Google, Microsoft, Amazon, etc. | ||
| + | * no shareholders demanding profit growth | ||
| + | * no ads, no data extraction, no exploitative LLMs, etc. | ||
| + | Employment and ownership for workers | ||
| + | * protect health, life balance, financial stability | ||
| + | * resilience against takeover, outsourcing, | ||
| + | Do a small socialism, from inside capitalism | ||
| + | * redirect the money from from corporations and shareholders, | ||
| + | * plant a small seed that may grow and contribute to a growing coop ecosystem | ||
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| + | ===== Planning ===== | ||
| + | ==== General ==== | ||
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| + | === Feasibility === | ||
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| + | Some [[coop: | ||
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| + | === Funding === | ||
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| + | Assuming self-funded, | ||
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| + | ==== Email System ==== | ||
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| + | ===== More Info ===== | ||
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| + | Some [[coop: | ||
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