diff --git a/docs/index.md b/docs/index.md index 743713c69..72a47d61d 100644 --- a/docs/index.md +++ b/docs/index.md @@ -1,5 +1,33 @@ --- -title: Welcome +title: A Cooperative Alternative --- -W.I.P +The Cooperative Cloud is a platform built by and for worked-owned technology +cooperatives which proposes a shared social and technical infrastructure for +the operation and management of free software applications. + +The project arose out the understanding that technology cooperatives continue +to struggle to deliver free software solutions without relying on monopolies +such as Google, Microsoft and Amazon for technical infrastructure and software +tools. The contradictions of working with these abusive and extractive forces +brings the idea of offering an alternative into question. + +The technological crisis is a social crisis. Therefore, building an alternative +digital future cannot be done without broad and meaningful cooperation. The +Cooperative Cloud project takes as its starting point the existing free +software community standards, tools, approaches and governance methods to build +up a platform which cooperatives can make use of to deliver a sustainable and +ethical alternative ecosystem. + +The Cooperative Cloud should not be seen as a technical solution for a social +problem (i.e. "Big Tech"). Owning the common technological means for delivering +free software is only one part of the struggle to reclaim technology today. If +antitrust litigation dismantled GAFAM tomorrow, we'd need our own organisations +and robust technical capacity to fill the resulting vacuum. From this +perspective, the project can be seen as another approach to building community +power by focussing on the cooperative ways and means of managing the free +software applications on which so much of our lives have come to rely on. + +The project was initiated by [Autonomic]. + +[autonomic]: https://autonomic.zone/ diff --git a/mkdocs.yml b/mkdocs.yml index 76a488604..d5a6587a5 100644 --- a/mkdocs.yml +++ b/mkdocs.yml @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ --- site_author: Cooperative Cloud -site_name: Cooperative Cloud Documentation +site_name: Cooperative Cloud site_url: https://docs.cloud.autonomic.zone theme: