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This is a list of tech coops that are either forming or looking for new members.
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# Starting a Tech Coop?



This is a list of tech coops that are either forming or looking for new members.  To be included on the list, simply clone the respository and submit a pull request.



## [Snowdrift.coop](https://snowdrift.coop)



Snowdrift.coop is a *multi-stakeholder* (aka *solidarity*) co-op web platform being built to provide a more cooperative and effective funding system for public goods. Public goods are those which everyone can share without limit and without exclusion such as free/libre/open software, music, art, research, and so on. An ethical democratic economy should not accept the artificial restrictions that turn public goods into exclusive club goods, but we still need ways to fund the work that goes into development. Snowdrift.coop provides a web platform for independent free/libre/open projects to get patronage support from the community via a pledge: patrons agree to fund the projects they like by donating a base amount per the number of total patrons (for example, donating $1 per month for every 1,000 patrons who donate with me). As a co-op, anyone funding the site itself can be a member, and members are split into three classes: the workers who develop the platform, the people who get funded to work on their independent projects, and the general patrons who only donate. As of 2015, Snowdrift.coop is still a work-in-progress accepting startup donations and volunteer help to get the system running.



## [Webarchitects](https://www.webarchitects.coop/)



The purpose of [Webarchitects Co-operative](https://www.webarchitects.coop/) is to *"To enable the provision of internet based services for socially responsible groups and individuals, using free open source software wherever possible, in a manner that aims to minimise fossil fuel usage and ecological impacts and which also provides sustainable employment"*. Webarchitects is a multi-stakeholder co-operative which clients, partners and investors can [join](https://www.webarchitects.coop/join), we are not currently in a position to recruit any additional worker members. Webarchitects have been developing, maintaining and hosting servers and websites, coding and customising content management systems and other FLOSS web applications running on GNU/Linux servers since 1998. In July 2011 we re-established ourselves as Webarch Co-operative Limited in order to formalise our co-operative ethics and working practices. Webarchitects has a policy that *"All software artefacts that the co-operative produces to be licensed under a FSF approved license"*. In addition to providing virtual servers and shared hosting to clients we also provide sysadmin services to clients and we are [seeking more clients](https://docs.webarch.net/wiki/Clients_wanted). If you would like to [contact us](https://www.webarchitects.coop/contact) you can send an email to [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected]), if you would like a chat we can be found in [#webarch on irc.freenode.net](https://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=#webarch).



## [WTF eG](https://wtf-eg.de/en/)



WTF Kooperative eG (Werkkooperative der Technikfreund*innen) was founded in December 2020 and brings valuable expert know-how most diverse disciplines of information technology to the table.

From the start, more than 150 people found each other and worked to successful founding of the cooperative.



A company that belongs to all of us, in which each of us has a voice and the right to have a say.

We see ourselves as a platform for hackers, where with like-minded people economic projects become possible that would not exist otherwise.

We promote and manage the services of our members collectively as a cooperative.