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--- coop:start [2025-03-27 10:56] – brook
+++ coop:start [2025-07-07 06:25] (current) – [Email System] brook
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 ===== Motivation =====
-Provide independant, non-capitalist online services for people
+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, indeed a few super-wealthy individuals.
+While the centralization of control in a few US based companies is a specific problem, simply having a "Canadian alternative" does not automatically resolve the issues of an extractive capitalist model, and does not provide resistance against consolidation and centralization of control.
+===== Goals =====
+Provide independent, non-capitalist online services for everyone
   * not dependent on Google, Microsoft, Amazon, etc.
-  * not even Fastmail, Proton or other for-profit companies
   * no shareholders demanding profit growth
   * no ads, no data extraction, no exploitative LLMs, etc.
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   * redirect the money from from corporations and shareholders, to workers
   * plant a small seed that may grow and contribute to a growing coop ecosystem
+===== Planning =====
+==== General ====
+=== Feasibility ===
+Some [[coop:math|napkin math]].
+=== Funding ===
+Assuming self-funded, startup funding in the range of $10k-$50k.  Most [[https://canadianworker.coop/funding/|grant]] [[https://canadianworker.coop/funding/other-funding/|programs]] that I've seen offer less than this, and many have very narrow requirements, so are probably not worth the time to pursue.
+==== Email System ====
+[[coop:email:system|{{:coop:email:20250616-email-system.png?nolink&400|}}]]
+[[coop:email:system|System structure]].
+===== More Info =====
+Some [[coop:links]] about cooperatives in BC and Canada.