Comment We're doing this with hosting, colocation, etc. (Score 5, Informative) 93
Hi,
Our group has been operating as a co-operative for about 10 months now. We're on the verge of incorporating, likely as a multi-stakeholder for-profit co-op based in British Columbia, Canada.
We do colocation, virtual servers (Xen), virtual hosting (IMAP, Jabber, Apache, Zope/Plone, Drupal, DNS, etc.), and consulting in a co-operative model. Our members get pricing that reflects, as accurately as possible, the true cost of providing any given service. We also sell to non-members, from whom we attempt to make a profit. Members get the opportunity to provide consulting services through the co-op, and all profits go into improving the co-op's infrastructure and/or providing membership dividends.
We have 16 members, ~US$3,000 in member investments, and a full-cab at a pretty good carrier-neutral colo facility in San Francisco. We have members in British Columbia, California, Hawai'i, Florida, and England. We also have participants in the Czech Republic.
You can read more about our efforts here: http://www.cernio.com/cooperative/
Graham
+1 415 462 2991 (09h00 -> 22h00 Pacific time)
Our group has been operating as a co-operative for about 10 months now. We're on the verge of incorporating, likely as a multi-stakeholder for-profit co-op based in British Columbia, Canada.
We do colocation, virtual servers (Xen), virtual hosting (IMAP, Jabber, Apache, Zope/Plone, Drupal, DNS, etc.), and consulting in a co-operative model. Our members get pricing that reflects, as accurately as possible, the true cost of providing any given service. We also sell to non-members, from whom we attempt to make a profit. Members get the opportunity to provide consulting services through the co-op, and all profits go into improving the co-op's infrastructure and/or providing membership dividends.
We have 16 members, ~US$3,000 in member investments, and a full-cab at a pretty good carrier-neutral colo facility in San Francisco. We have members in British Columbia, California, Hawai'i, Florida, and England. We also have participants in the Czech Republic.
You can read more about our efforts here: http://www.cernio.com/cooperative/
Graham
+1 415 462 2991 (09h00 -> 22h00 Pacific time)
