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==Coops Present==<br />
* [http://openflows.org/ Openflows]<br />
* [http://designaction.org/ Design Action Collective] <br />
* [http://tadpole.cc/ Tadpole]<br />
* [http://radicaldesigns.org Radical Designs]<br />
* [http://palantetech.coop Palante Tech]<br />
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This was a free-ranging conversation, but the topics discussed were:<br />
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==Power and structure==<br />
* Acknowledging power, and the tyranny of structurelessness.<br />
* Balance of informality with respect and structure<br />
* There's no boss versus we're all the boss. Accountability practices to keep from taking too many liberties when there's no boss.<br />
* Creating a structure that everyone can agree on.<br />
* Challenges of diversity of roles; decoupling power structure from income.<br />
* Having formalized community agreements/rules of operation.<br />
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==Operations and self-care==<br />
* Running a the coop like professional services firm rather than reinventing the wheel, learning from the partnership model.<br />
* Selling labor: selling hours leads to internalizing market dynamics<br />
* Making work fun?directing the companies strategies toward what the workers find interesting.<br />
* Caring about the worker as a whole person, their health, their family (however defined).<br />
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==Pay==<br />
* One approach: Straight hourly wages; each worker gets paid the same wage, but more or less depending on total hours worked; patronage is distributed according to hours worked.<br />
* Another approach: Flat monthly paycheck.<br />
* Pay structure can reinforce power dynamics.<br />
* Patronage/profit-sharing: how to deal with it.<br />
* Questions about tracking time internally, both billable and non-billable.</div>Vivian