= Coop =

This page exists to help May First understand the national and international coop and solidarity ''association'' landscape that might be relevant to our organization. It's not intended to be a comprehensive list of all coop associations, just the ones we may want to join.

== General Associations ==

 * [https://www.ica.coop/en International Cooperative Alliance] - mainstream international organization
  * [https://patio.ica.coop ICA discussion forum] - Jamie is subscribed
 * [https://usworker.coop/home/ US Federation of worker coops] - limited to worker coops in the US
 * [https://ussen.org/ US Solidarity Economy Network] - International, focused on solidarity economy in general, Emily Kawano
 * [https://neweconomy.net/ New Economy Coalition] - network of orgs for deep change in economy
 * [https://ncbaclusa.coop/ National Cooperative Business Association] - Does not seem movement focused at all

== Specifically Tech Related ==

 * [https://platform.coop/ Platform Cooperativism Consortium] - New School based consortium, Trebor Shortz, puts on NYC Platform Coop conference in November
 * [http://ioo.coop/ Internet of Ownership] - runs several platform [http://ioo.coop/project-council/ coop related projects], Nathan Schneider involved
  * [http://ioo.coop/connect/ email discussion lists] - Jamie subscribed
 * [https://www.coops.tech CoTech] - tech related coops, based in UK, but seems to be international in scope
  * [https://community.coops.tech/ Forum] - Jamie is subscribed
 * [https://libreho.st/ Libre Host] - Tech coops using free software, UK based


== Others ==

 * [https://open.coop Open Coop] seems to organize conferences but is UK based so not sure how relevant to us