







cooperative networks of creative contributors

XLC Building Blocks
essential concepts and vocabulary for cross-license collaboratives

Knowledge sharing: Why smart creatives build in public
Knowledge sharing: Why smart creatives build in public
CommonsCloud – Eines lliures tecnoètiques cooperatives
Eines lliures tecnoètiques cooperatives
Licenses List - Creative Commons
Creative Commons is the nonprofit behind the open licenses and other legal tools that allow creators to share their work. Our legal tools are free to use.
Licenses List - Creative Commons
Creative Commons is the nonprofit behind the open licenses and other legal tools that allow creators to share their work. Our legal tools are free to use.
Artist Corporations: A groundbreaking structure for creative people
Creative people deserve the same economic advantages as everyone else. So we’re going to build it together.

Decentralized Information and the Future of Software - Draft
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Networked Cooperative Ecosystems
Research TeamAndi Argast (Researcher), Nick Houde (Researcher), Dana Salama, (Researcher & Designer), Samuel Young (Network Mapping), Rithikha Rajamohan (Research Lead).
Network of shared purpose · Issue #369 · muni-town/roomy
Excerpted from Weird Web Pages. The Network is effectively a global jobs board, but for mutual collaborations rather than work-for-hire. Easiest way to prototype this might be with GitHub issues/di...
Dark Forest OS
A private internet for creative groups — groupcore infrastructure to cooperate, create, and coordinate
The Community Artists' Collective | Non Profit | Houston, TX
The Community Artists' Collective is the catalyst which provides the inspirational and educational sources for artists and citizens so that they can use their talents and creative abilities to solve economic, cultural and social challenges in the natural and built environments in which we live, work

cooperative/Formation Documents at main · NorthskySocial/cooperative
Information about our Cooperative. Contribute to NorthskySocial/cooperative development by creating an account on GitHub.
Keep Your Friends Close — Open Tech Strategies | Blog
One of the insider secrets of free and open source software (FOSS) is that most of the rules a project uses on a day-to-day basis are not found in the software’s license. There are contribution guidelines, which are enforced by the project only taking contributions that meet them. There are codes of conduct, which are a condition of community participation. There are endorsements, official membership, a voice in setting the project roadmap, and all kinds of other benefits that attach to varying types of community participation. In each case, entirely external to the license, there are official rules and unwritten norms that govern how participants gain the benefits of joining the civic life of a project.
Nextcloud - Open source content collaboration platform
The most popular open source content collaboration platform for tens of millions of users at thousands of organizations across the globe

Reflections on the Cooperative AI Conference | Platform Cooperativism Consortium
I am just returning from our conference on Cooperative AI in Istanbul. Part of what I love about conferences—what keeps me doing this, convening these global PCC events —is meeting people who are both…
