Drupal Nights Presents Micky Metts: "Cooperative Development - Thinking Outside the Boss!"
Hosted by BioRAFT, Cambridge MA
Monthly camp style talk - 3rd Thursday of the month. Learn, network, eat, & enjoy!
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Date/Time
Thursday, Aug 20, 2015 - 6:30pm
Location
Davenport Conference Room
25 1st Street
Cambridge, MA 02141
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Presentation
Bringing democracy and social equality to your projects through cooperation. Joining, forming, and running worker-owned businesses in web development.
Worker-owned cooperatives are businesses owned and controlled by the people who work in them. They are a time-tested way to create quality jobs, and are gaining momentum as a strategy to build and anchor wealth in communities.
Justice is a big part of the worker cooperative movement. Fairness and openness are values that must be in place for cooperative efforts to survive and flourish.
We will discuss how Agaric is structured and how some other successful local and worldwide cooperatives work.
- What defines a cooperative?
- What is a cooperative network?
- How do you form a cooperative?
- How do you onboard new members?
- Why is Drupal important to the cooperative movement?
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About The Speaker, Micky Metts
Drupal Hacker - Activist - Industry Organizer - I am a pioneer and early adopter of technologies.
I am a member of Agaric, a worker owned cooperative of developers. I enjoy doing what I love to do. I am also a member of LibreBoston, (a sub-group of BLU, the Boston Linux Users Group). I speak at events about free software for a free society.
My past experience includes the creation and development of diverse online communities. I am an Agile Project Manager with experience working with large and small teams of programmers to build custom applications for large and small companies using FREE software (fsf.org) and platforms for community use. My entrepreneurship has included the invention of Cyber Weddings and Friend Finder in 1996. My interests include: Drupal, PHP, Community, FREE SOFTWARE, GNU/Linux, VOIP, VoIPdrupal.
My presentations at Drupal events in the USA have been on topics including VoIP and Cooperatives and Collectives.
My current focus is on DataStrategies, Security, Performance and VoipDrupal.
About BioRAFT
The BioRAFT platform is an innovative solution for laboratory safety, compliance and training. Designed by scientific researchers to aid scientific research, BioRAFT streamlines and automates the training and compliance process while being easy for researchers to use, which reduces compliance and training overhead and increases researcher productivity.