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small-sites/abstract-small-sites-drupal.md

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 The other thing we (read: Nedjo Rogers) put a lot of time into is trying to make it so that when 
 
 
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+#### Development environment
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+All the tools you need to work like a huge agency in a tiny little package:
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+  * Database
+  * PHP
+  * Composer
+  * Sass
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+Even deployment tools, if that's not handled another way.
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+All of these are big dreams, that to do well, requires resources.  Which is why part of our dream is to get big.
 
 
 ## Growing big enough that the bumps seem tiny
 
-All of these are big dreams, that to do well, requires resources.  Which is why part of our dream is to get big.
 
 And one way to get big, and *also* to immediately benefit smaller sites, is to provide websites as a service.
 
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 ### Distributions + SaaS == LibreSaaS
 
+If you maintain a Drupal distribution, ready for anyone to use
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+And you provide hosting that people can pay for, subsidizing the cost of developing that distribution
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+That's LibreSaaS — wholly free libre software available as a service.
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 (A term I coined, but someone else coined it independently.  Which makes it a movement.)
 
 LibreSaaS is a business model that works for Free/Libre Open Source Software (even if people don't *care* whether it is free/libre or not, at least libre software isn't at a disadvantage.
@@ -164,10 +182,11 @@ Localeyz, the closed-source Drupal-as-a-service mentioned earlier, is also coope
 See many more at https://ioo.coop/directory/
 
 
-Wisdom from the labor movement:
+The software cloud, infamously, is just someone else's computer.
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+But it's *not* someone else's computer when you own it collectively with everyone else using the service.
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-"If we're not focused on things that build scale, we're not building institutions that change society.  And if we're not building institutions that change society, we're not doing what we need to do."
-     — David Hammer (ICA)
 
 
 
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 Of course, Meetup.com itself sold out to the biggest real estate scam of .. well, the past two years .. [WeWork](https://www.currentaffairs.org/2020/01/wework-is-a-scam ).
 
-Meetup was the epitome 
+Meetup was the epitome of the sustainable growth startup, yet they got pulled into the WeWork scam.
 
-Late last year 
+Late last year, undoubtedly under the influence of their new, bankrupt bosses, Meetup tried to put out a $2 per attendee charge, and took down the blog post even mentioning after general rebellion.
 
-Real shame they aren't open source, with full data portability, for when the venture capitalists in charge inevitably start siphoning our blood to 
+Real shame they aren't open source, with full data portability, for when the venture capitalists in charge inevitably start siphoning our blood to feed their investors.
 
 ... and there's [work to get events and meetups capabilities off the ground in the ActivityPub space](https://git.feneas.org/feneas/fediverse/-/wikis/watchlist-for-activitypub-apps#events-and-meetups
 
 but discoverability is hard.
 
-So again: More central platforms, under control of the people who use them
+So again: More central platforms, under control of the people who use them, are a real, valid solution for where we find ourselves in the year of hindsight, 2020.
 
 
 Historically, under pressure, many people have turned to forming cooperative associations.
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 The Federation of Southern Cooperatives, started in 1967 to help shore up an economic foundation to civil rights, 
 
 
+Wisdom from the labor movement, spoken at a conference for cooperatives:
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+"If we're not focused on things that build scale, we're not building institutions that change society.  And if we're not building institutions that change society, we're not doing what we need to do."
+     — David Hammer (ICA)
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 # Democratic, cooperative communication
 
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 # Transparency does not equal democracy
 
 The concentrated benefit, diffuse cost conundrum helps explain a mystery uncovered by James D'Angelo: that the move to public votes in the US House of Representatives in 1970 increased the power of big donors, lobbyists, and political parties.  Before, when most votes were secret, representatives had the option of lying to their donors, to lobbyists, to party "whips", and thus to vote their conscience.
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+> ["Circuit-Bending with the Easy Button"](https://www.flickr.com/photos/35237092540@N01/5462062551) by [Pete Prodoehl](https://www.flickr.com/photos/35237092540@N01) is licensed under [CC BY-NC-SA 2.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/?ref=ccsearch&atype=rich)
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+(uncredited?) found at https://www.britannica.com/explore/savingearth/mass-production/