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title: "Resolution 036: Democratic Tech Fund joins the Co-op Cloud Federation"
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- Topic: Resolution 036: Democratic Tech Fund joins the Co-op Cloud Federation
- Date: 2026-01-16
- Deadline: 2026-01-30
- Size: Large

## Summary

The Democratic Tech Fund (DTF) is a Project-In-The-Making which has close affinity with Co-op Cloud in culture and stated goals. `@mikemh` and `@wtebbens` are active members of the community and can represent the Democratic Tech Fund. The DTF would like to join the Co-op Cloud Federation in order to establish a solid base for future collaboration.

The DTF is set up as a co-operative federation, with multi-stakeholder membership: to allow both individual as organisational membership, operational members (i.e. workers), collaborator members, council of steward members (elected) and institutional members (public and private funders).

A brief summary of the the intended goals of the DTF are as follows:

* **Build and provide the tech**: Generating working configurations of tech infrastructure and services that address actual, perceived needs, drawing on the reserves of free-libre open- source software and constructing practices of material infrastructure that are under the review and steering of the communities they service. 

* **Mobilise awareness towards adoption**: highlighting the clear and present danger and our collective capacity to resist, re-make and re-imagine. There's a need for campaign work, media and visuals, and for intelligence and news about what has already been done. 

* **Build the community**: nurturing local, regional and trans-regional communities and networks that are capable to articulate these alternatives, to make the change together and to sustain the economic base for radically re-oriented infrastructure.

Please see the latest Work-In-Progress [DTF concept note - v0.3](https://oficina.commonscloud.coop/s/No93qBkpxAsgYqE) for more details. Founding members include the [Free Knowledge Institute](https://freeknowledge.eu), [Commons Network](https://www.commonsnetwork.org) and [Fundación Platoniq / Goteo.org](https://goteo.org). The Free Knowledge Institute is also the fiscal host of the DTF. Please see the website of the [DTF](https://democratictech.fund) itself for more information.

DTF are happy to pay the current recommended federation membership fee.

Please feel free to join `#dtf2026:matrix.org` to keep up with DTF project developments.