Drupal Cooperative Resources

Here's a group of resources that might be helpful. If you know of something that ought to be listed here go right ahead and do so.

How To Resources

• Cooperative Association see the ICA cooperative identity definition.
• A Technology Freelancer's Guide To Starting a Worker Cooperative PDF from the Network of American Tech Worker Cooperatives, March 2009
• In Good Company: A Guide to Cooperative Employee Ownership. Northcountry Cooperative Foundation, Minneapolis. 2006. http://www.ncdf.coop/documents/worker_coop_toolbox.pdf
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• Tons of relevant documents from United States Federation of Worker Cooperatives at http://usworker.coop/education
• Creative Co-operatives is for anyone working in the creative industries who is interested in collaborating and co operating with other people.

Worker Cooperatives on the Web

• software.coop is a UK-based tech worker co-op partnership offering computer-related services including some Drupal development and hosting.
• Gotham City Drupal is a NYC-based co-op Drupal development services company providing end-to-end technical services and training around Drupal.
• Quilted is a worker-owned, cooperatively-managed company stitching together technology and social change. We take on work that challenges us to be more critical and insightful designers, engineers, and thinkers while remaining pragmatic and focused on adding real social value to our projects. With offices in Boston, Massachusetts and Berkeley, California, we provide strategic consulting, graphic design, and web development services to progressive arts, education, and non-profit organizations. We focus on standards based design and work with open source technologies such as Drupal, WordPress, and Ruby on Rails.
• Electric Embers workers coop provides hosting services
• Network of American Tech Worker Cooperatives - 65+ people from 30+ organizations: founders and workers at existing tech worker coops, people working on starting a coop or formalizing an existing group, and people who are just interested in the worker coop model for tech work.
• OSAlliance - Austria based workers' cooperative providing open source it solutions.
• Co-opIT is a Dutch workers cooperative.
• Design Action is a Bay Area design worker cooperative.
• Agaric builds online. Providing web development, consulting, and teaching since 2006 with a strong focus on Drupal and a commitment to Free Software in general, Agaric is a small but multi-national non-hierarchical collective based primarily in Boston, Massachusetts, USA, Managua, Nicaragua and Hamburg, Germany.
• Agile Collective Ltd. (formerly Ecobee Ltd) - a UK based worker co-operative, providing Drupal specific consultancy, development, training, support and maintenance through a co-operative company structure. We love working on socially positive projects - mainly for other co-operatives, NGOs, charities, but also social enterprise and public sector.
• Flywheel Tech Collective - A Cleveland based tech worker cooperative providing Drupal theming & development, CiviCRM and Ubercart support and integration. Also specializing in OpenERP, system administration and security, high performance LAMP, secure collaboration/groupware, and network/hardware installation & maintenance. Committed to consensus decision making practices, collective ownership, and community-based work involving free workshops, services and support for local movements.
• gcoop - Cooperativa de Software Libre Drupal consulting and teaching, founded 2007, Gcoop is a company of computing solutions, custom developing, consulting, support, migration and auditing of systems. We make computing solution working with libre/free tools..
• Fiqus Cooperativa de Software We are a software development cooperative commited with cutting edge technology, free software, teamwork and agile methodologies.
• Palante Technology Cooperative Palante Tech is a worker cooperative that provides tech consulting services, including Drupal site building and development, to progressive nonprofit, social justice, activist and community organizations.
• anarres worker co-operative Anarres formed as a worker coop in 2003. Based in Toronto, we have a network of associates and partners with whom we have worked extensively over the last 7 years. We came together because we believe computer technology and the web should primarily be tools for community building. We are passionate about using opensource software for reasons of both utility and ethics. We believe in its affordability, flexibility and effectiveness.
• Koumbit is a not-for-profit organisation founded in Montreal in 2004 which provides web services through its Conseil de Travail (Council of Workers), which is organized according to the principles of non-hierarchical self-management.
• Insite is a cooperative web agency based in Lille, France. We use Drupal intensively for our clients' websites since 2010, and try to contribute back to the community. We have several hundred references in web projects and visual communication with public actors, associative and professional networks.

Cooperative Allies

• U.S. Federation of Worker Cooperatives
• FACTTIC, Federación Argentina de Cooperativas de Trabajo de Tecnología Innovación y Conocimiento is a Federation of worker co-operatives from Argentina. Its members are worker co-operatives related to technology, innovation and knowledge.