Sculpture building
- building sculptures cooperatively
- went from structure to sun dial
Collective interpretation
- moon cycles
- timed life
- togetherness unity
- staged movement
- collaborative fun
- dissentegratuin if man’s creation
- journey towards ma
- slowing time
WALK
Cooperative-ism
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rudimentary tech → how to proceed
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coop is where I buy grain, chemicals
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examples
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come together when members create market power
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collectivizing to get stuff cheaper
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health sector, allows people to own data contribute to commons
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enabling farmers to have own dignity twin datat store, use data collectively for landscape outcomes
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data elevator/silo
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what’s the catalyst - frustration, shared need, market failure
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a collective goal, maybe not makret driven
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get legs when developing a market segment, eg farm, producers, restaurants, make brand around this in Montana
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traditional commodity
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data coop
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market coop
BREAK
Can this apply to top down corporation?
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apartment housing coop, all held accountable, but one/few people that make final decisions
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decocratic (?) decision making, governance
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doesn’t maximize profit because members get benefits first. It will graduate to making profit
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cooperatives can think much longer term
Structures
- should we expand/franchise?
- led to knowledge cooperative, developed a model, others could start their own cooperative with support from initial coop
- Single company for marketing/branding/accounting, but separate coops use that
- membership, workers co-op, vs providing service
- members often provide services that others don’t want to do (raise family on land, not worry about where cow/crop goes, accounting, etc), farmer can’t have every skill!!
Tradeoff market vs co-op
- allowing you to choose what you are best at
- ? - does the traditional market allow us to do this? BUT coop let’s us have a voice/vote/opinion
- coop could minimize profit at parts of the market (not distribution)
- pace maker, bring down margins in carbon market
- market exchange is often just $$ dollars or commodity, but in a coop you are voting with …
Commons
- community layer in a market
- ostrum ellenor principles align
- commons are not open access
- relationships
WALK
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Pain points in ag tech space
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coops converting back to llcs
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how data is managed
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templating for daos
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few examples - platform coop
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incredibly helpful to create & use a template
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can GOAT have a coop working group?
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RFM being open, easy because they serve their members
Greg data entry
- cooperative for data entry?
- assemble functions into similar person types
- program to support data acquisition
- just call and get data, transpose
- data bookkeeping, like accounting, agronomist
- in service to land stewards
BREAK
Takeaways
- startups, extraction is key, but love coops, how can we align
- multi stakeholders? Are they all data entry? Do same thing? Umbrella coop or federated?
- privacy and rights in data
- templates
- DAOs and Regen groups module
- RFM has 50 farms on, lived experience, some of the roles/resources may already exist
- existing things join the coop
- non currency based ways to allocate attention. Is there a nearest term option
- governance, DAO, silicone valley discovered coop??
- coop migrating to corporate model, interesting, lots of work going into flexibility of structure, excitement around DAOs
DEBATE/conversation about what these different models
- Debate isn’t productive! Let’s map out of the features of all this
Let’s do a functional map of different cooperative structures and functions. In a table that allows space to describe each intersection and a separate table to add examples and how they map
- Kyler, Greg, Sam, ned, Rohan, Michael, Mo, Jamie
- Sculpting coops 8pm @ cafe