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title: "Resolution 038: Merri-bek Tech joins Co-op Cloud Federation"
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- Topic: Merri-bek Tech joins Coopcloud
- Date: 2026-03-02
- Deadline: 2026-03-16
- Size: Large

### Summary

[Merri-bek Tech](https://www.merri-bek.tech) is working towards
neighbourhood-first, community controlled web services, building infrastructure
using  the Co-op Cloud stack. Merri-bek Tech expects to pay membership dues.

### Details

Merri-bek Tech

- currently depends on Traefik for neighbourhood-distributed nodes.
- have developed and are maintaining Kiwix Co-op Cloud recipe for deploying
  Wikipedia across neighbourhood nodes
- plans to use and contribute to maintenance, of additional components of Co-op
  Cloud stack as needed for subsequent phases of the project roadmap:
  neighbhourhood based email service, web hosting and decentralized social
  media.

`@jade:merri-bek.chat` is an active member of the Co-op Cloud community. The
group is based in Merri-bek, in the inner Northern suburbs of Naarm
(Melbourne), Australia

`[Merri-bek Tech Inc.]` is legally an incorporated association in Australia,
which is a legal entity used for democratic clubs and societies. It is not
intended to be a worker co-operative, it is a volunteer commons project, but it
shares the mutuality goals of cooperatives. Full details are at
[merri-bek.tech](https://merri-bek.tech).

The project that Merri-bek Tech is running to promote Neighbourhood-First
Software in Merri-bek and other regions, is detailed at
[lores.tech](https://lores.tech).

`@ammaratef45` from [RTM](https://resisttechmonopolies.online/) is honored to
vouch.