hi Kevin,<br><br>we officially created our coop, as a phyle through our constitution and principles but legally as a dutch legal cooperative, mid-year 2011; franco can provide you with text links if you want<br><br>we have signed our first big commercial contract and gone through initial teething problems of getting real contractual cooperation off the ground with people who are not physically co-located,<br>
<br>we will be able to make a first assessment mid 2012<br><br>however, keep in mind it&#39;s a very small outfit of 3-4 people<br><br>Michel<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 9:55 PM, Kevin Carson <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:free.market.anticapitalist@gmail.com">free.market.anticapitalist@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 5:44 PM, Michel Bauwens<br>
&lt;<a href="mailto:michel@p2pfoundation.net">michel@p2pfoundation.net</a>&gt; wrote:<br>
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&gt; we&#39;re not really in a position to give advice, as we only started very<br>
&gt; recently and are working through our own growth issues,<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt; but we started first with a set of principles (why are we together), then<br>
&gt; with a constitution (how we are going to achieve these principles<br>
&gt; concretely); everything we do has to be compatible with the constitution and<br>
&gt; inspired by the principles.<br>
<br>
I recall seeing last year your statement on hoping to build a phyle<br>
based on the p2p foundation community, but saw almost nothing between<br>
that announcement and your comment here.  Is there a link to somewhere<br>
that details the progress of this idea?<br>
<br>
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