From b69dbd89bb223198cabc2ff96c1bd0cfd59808ee Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: decentral1se Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2025 16:25:00 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] see you on barricades --- docs/intro/strategy.md | 18 +++++++++++++----- 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/intro/strategy.md b/docs/intro/strategy.md index 4172d37..be0f63c 100644 --- a/docs/intro/strategy.md +++ b/docs/intro/strategy.md @@ -6,17 +6,25 @@ From our experiences working and organising as Autonomic, the tech co-op who [in ## Technological Saviors? -The urgency for providing an alternative comes out of the understanding that the concentration of our digital lives within the private sphere of corporate providers (e.g. [GAFAM](https://degooglisons-internet.org/en/)) represents a loss of freedom due to the threat to our privacy and self-determination through surveillance and monopolisation. +The urgency to build an alternative is based on an analysis of our current reality. -As a movement, we cannot compete with corporate providers in terms of cost and scale. Their network effects and available capital means that no one project, product or organisation can create the required shift to a more widespread public interest technology. +The monopolisation of our digital lives, the stranglehold of corporate control (aka [GAFAM](https://degooglisons-internet.org/en/)), represents a grave threat to our collective freedom, our societies and our hopes for a good life on planet earth. -> Technology alone will not save us +We must however acknowledge their vast accumulation of network effects and resources. We must acknowledge that no single project, product or organisation can create the required shift to a more widespread public interest technology. + +> Technology alone will not save us. > > Simply deploying libre software is not enough. -Our strategy is to mutualise our resources to facilitate this shift. _Co-op Cloud_ is an attempt to create a new shared resource - an open and democratically managed, open standards based, copyleft licensed, libre software infrastructure project. +Our strategy is to mutualise our resources to facilitate this shift. -From this base, we can focus on the urgent and necessary social organising work that goes beyond the technical question. +We can say that _Co-op Cloud_ is a libre software infrastructure project. It is based on open standards, is copyleft licensed and is open and democratically managed. + +We can also say that _Co-op Cloud_ is a social movement of hosters, hackers, technologists and their allies who defend a vision of collective self-management. + +We are committed to an organisational form which allows us to accumulate knowledge, solidarity, experience and resources. We claim a rich history of grassroots social resistance, direct action and collective liberation. + +We propose to go beyond a reductive technological vision of social change. ## The Moving Parts