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title: Getting Started Guide
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The Cooperative Cloud is a platform built by and for worked-owned technology
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cooperatives which proposes a shared social and technical infrastructure for
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the operation and management of free software applications.
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the operation and management of free software applications. The project was
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initiated by [Autonomic].
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The project arose out the understanding that technology cooperatives continue
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to struggle to deliver free software solutions without relying on monopolies
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tools. The contradictions of working with these abusive and extractive forces
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brings the idea of offering an alternative into question.
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The technological crisis is a social crisis. Therefore, building an alternative
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digital future cannot be done without broad and meaningful cooperation. The
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Cooperative Cloud project takes as its starting point the existing free
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software community standards, tools, approaches and governance methods to build
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up a platform which cooperatives can make use of to deliver a sustainable and
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ethical alternative ecosystem.
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[The technological crisis is a social crisis]. Therefore, building an
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alternative digital future cannot be done without broad and meaningful
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cooperation. The Cooperative Cloud project takes as its starting point the
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existing free software community standards, tools, approaches and governance
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methods in order to build up a platform which cooperatives can make use of as
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part of offering a real alternative.
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The Cooperative Cloud should not be seen as a technical solution for a social
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problem (i.e. "Big Tech"). Owning the common technological means for delivering
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free software is only one part of the struggle to reclaim technology today. If
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antitrust litigation dismantled GAFAM tomorrow, we'd need our own organisations
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and robust technical capacity to fill the resulting vacuum. From this
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perspective, the project can be seen as another approach to building community
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power by focussing on the cooperative ways and means of managing the free
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software applications on which so much of our lives have come to rely on.
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problem (i.e. "Big Tech"). We understsand that owning the common technological
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means for delivering free software is only one part of the struggle to reclaim
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technology today. If antitrust litigation dismantled the monopolies tomorrow,
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we'd need our own organisations and robust technical capacity to fill the
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resulting vacuum. From this perspective, the project can be seen as another
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approach to building community power by focussing on the cooperative ways and
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means of managing the free software applications on which so much of our lives
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have come to rely on.
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The project was initiated by [Autonomic].
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To learn more, please see the [Getting Started guide].
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[autonomic]: https://autonomic.zone/
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[the technological crisis is a social crisis]: https://i.imgur.com/TmuTWBl.jpg
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[getting started guide]: getting-started/guide.md
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