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@ -10,6 +10,8 @@ Initial description from https://www.meetup.com/Twin-Cities-Drupal-Group/events/
First question of course is why? We're cold, calculating professionals, every one of us. We use the best tool available.
Why not WordPress or Backdrop or Ghost or Grav or Jekyll or Hugo? Why not Ruby on Rails or Django? Why not SquareSpace or Wix, for that matter?
* Webforms
* Structured content
* Faceted search
@ -32,11 +34,25 @@ Approaches:
* Sharing configuration (feature modules)
* Skins instead of subthemes
* [Skins](https://www.drupal.org/project/skins ) instead of subthemes, an approach Drutopia is now taking.
* Most of what you need arleady built— distributions.
### Distributions
* Restaurant
* Small business
* Online magazine or newspaper, with [Thunder](https://www.drupal.org/project/thunder )
* Community site allowing active subgroups, with []( )
* Corporate site, with [Droopler](https://www.drupal.org/project/droopler )
* Learning management system, with [Opigno LMS](https://www.drupal.org/project/opigno_lms )
* Government sites, [GovCMS](https://www.drupal.org/project/govcms8 )
* Volunteer coordination, with [Volunteer Center](https://www.drupal.org/project/vc )
* and [more](https://www.drupal.org/project/project_distribution?f%5B0%5D=&f%5B1%5D=&f%5B2%5D=drupal_core%3A7234&f%5B3%5D=sm_field_project_type%3Afull&f%5B4%5D=&f%5B5%5D=&text=&solrsort=ds_project_latest_activity+desc&op=Search )
* including [Varbase]( ), a sort of generic starting point.
## Growing big enough that the bumps seem tiny
@ -52,6 +68,10 @@ Approaches:
(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.
LibreSaaS has qualities that are enterprise and movement friendly (the easy to get started, can take full ownership/control as needed angle)
* Round Earth, Drupal + CiviCRM by Drupal support and maintenance experts MyDropWizard.
* Open Social
* [Open Church](http://openchurchsite.com/ )
@ -114,17 +134,21 @@ I've essentially been talking about centralizing our way to being able to compet
That hasn't been fashionable in tech circles since... ever. We're supposed to create decentralized protocols
and of course, Mastodon is a pretty big success (find me on social.coop), but despite the relative decentralization, it's a fairly fragile ecosystem.
and of course, [Mastodon](https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon#readme ) is a pretty big success (find me on social.coop), but despite the relative decentralization, it's a fairly fragile ecosystem.
Mastodon went public four years ago today
Completely decentralized approaches, like Scuttlebutt, are not hitting that ease of use
Cooperative platforms can provide the business model which
It has a business model that works for Free Software (people don't *care* whether it is or not, but at least libre software isn't at a disadvantage.
It has qualities that are enterprise and movement friendly (the easy to get started, can take full ownership/control as needed angle)
# Cooperative Platforms powered by LibreSaaS
* [Social.coop](https://wiki.social.coop/home.html ) and [Sunbeam.City](https://sunbeam.city/about/more ), running on Mastodon (and also using Loomio and Open Collective).
* [CoopCycle](https://coopcycle.org/en/ ), the European federation of bike delivery coops. Governed democratically by coops, it enables them to stand united and to reduce their costs— including by producing Libre Software.
* [Fairmondo](https://www.fairmondo.de/ ), an online marketplace (Germany).
@ -145,7 +169,17 @@ It's not all bad. If you search for "Squarespace" or "Wix" on Meetup.com, the o
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
Late last year
Real shame they aren't open source, with full data portability, for when the venture capitalists in charge inevitably start siphoning our blood to
... 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
Historically, under pressure, many people have turned to forming cooperative associations.
@ -170,8 +204,28 @@ We might have a solution to the problems of people being unable to afford to liv
Decline of groups.drupal.org, drupal.org
Meetup
Stack Exchange
Slack
Do you maintain a site or have a client with a lot of community interaction on it?
Groups, forums, posts with comments?
We at Agaric have an example of each: NICHQ, TeachersWithGUTS.org, GEO.coop
Drutopia?
Failed to be community-first. Not sure that's possible but that's what i'd like to aim for now.
join the actually-existing federated social web
That's what [Mastodon did](https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2018/06/why-activitypub-is-the-future/ )