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title: A Cooperative Alternative
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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. The project was
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initiated by [Autonomic].
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The project arose out of the understanding that technology cooperatives
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continue to struggle to deliver free software solutions without relying on
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monopolies such as Google, Microsoft and Amazon for technical infrastructure
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and software tools. The contradictions of working with these abusive and
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extractive forces brings the idea of offering an alternative into question.
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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"). 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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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://vvvvvvaria.org/~decentral1se/w/organising/crisis.jpeg
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[getting started guide]: getting-started/guide.md
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