hi dante,<br><br>we're not really in a position to give advice, as we only started very recently and are working through our own growth issues,<br><br>but we started first with a set of principles (why are we together), then with a constitution (how we are going to achieve these principles concretely); everything we do has to be compatible with the constitution and inspired by the principles.<br>
<br>the legal form is secondary to this primary community constituting dynamic, in my opinion,<br><br>Michel<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 5:40 PM, Dante-Gabryell Monson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dante.monson@gmail.com">dante.monson@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div><b>How can I get support from / collaborate with</b></div><div><b>a Phyle ?</b></div><div><b>( or a cooperative ? )</b></div>
<div><b><br></b></div><div><b>Is there an explanatory video ?</b> ( as the Mondragon excerpt below )</div>
<div><br></div><div><a href="http://p2pfoundation.net/Phyles" target="_blank">http://p2pfoundation.net/Phyles</a></div><div><br></div><div>to go through a step by step approach,</div><div>and <b>converge legal and financial know how</b>�+ <b>capital</b></div>
<div><br></div><div>in setting up a<i>�"p2p compliant"</i>�officially �/ financially / legally recognized�</div><div>structure / cooperative / business / <i>community organization ?</i></div><div><i><br></i></div>
<div><br></div><div>//</div><div><br></div><div>Lets say, I want to start a small cooperative, with a few engineer friends,</div><div>as to enable the Research and Development and construction of</div><div>modular , tensegrity based tents</div>
<div><br></div><div>( example�<a href="http://sharewiki.org/en/Nomad_Tribe" target="_blank">http://sharewiki.org/en/Nomad_Tribe</a>�)</div><div><br></div><div>or,</div><div>lets say,</div><div>I need a housing scheme to converge friends into a ongoing collective,</div>
<div>buy housing and production space</div><div><br></div><div>( example�<a href="http://sharewiki.org/en/Leipzig_project" target="_blank">http://sharewiki.org/en/Leipzig_project</a>�)</div><div><br></div><div>and buy land to produce crops for the ongoing collective</div>
<div><br></div><div>///</div><div><br></div><div>I notice, for example,</div><div>In relation to "Launching a New Cooperative",</div><div><br></div><div>a 1979 Documentary on the Mondragon Cooperative excerpt�:</div>
<div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=usZt2N6ftKI#t=15s" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=usZt2N6ftKI#t=15s</a></div><div><br>
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</div><div><br></div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 1:51 PM, Dante-Gabryell Monson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dante.monson@gmail.com" target="_blank">dante.monson@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div>Mondragon Cooperative Documentary from the 70 ies ( ? )�</div><div><br></div><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7efaDeFmurQ" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7efaDeFmurQ</a><div><br></div><div><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mondrag%C3%B3n_Cooperative_Corporation" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mondrag%C3%B3n_Cooperative_Corporation</a></div>
<div><br></div><div><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">The�</span><b style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">MONDRAGON Corporation</b><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">�is a�</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporation" title="Corporation" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(6,69,173);background-image:none;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19px" target="_blank">corporation</a><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">�and�</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooperative_federation" title="Cooperative federation" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(6,69,173);background-image:none;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19px" target="_blank">federation</a><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">�of�</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worker_cooperative" title="Worker cooperative" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(6,69,173);background-image:none;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19px" target="_blank">worker cooperatives</a><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">�based in the�</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euskal_Herria" title="Euskal Herria" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(6,69,173);background-image:none;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19px" target="_blank">Basque</a><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">�region of�</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spain" title="Spain" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(6,69,173);background-image:none;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19px" target="_blank">Spain</a><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">.</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">///</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">It also set up its own bank-financial system</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br></span></div><div><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caja_Laboral" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caja_Laboral</a></div>
<div><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">///</span></div>
<div><br></div><div>and in relation to the town of Mondragon</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mondrag%C3%B3n" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mondrag%C3%B3n</a><br><div><br></div>
<div>Noted poverty expert and sociology professor Barbara J. Peters (Southampton College, Long Island University) has studied the incorporated and entirely resident-owned Basque town of Mondrag�n, Spain. "In Mondrag�n, I saw no signs of poverty. I saw no signs of extreme wealth," Peters said. "I saw people looking out for each other�..It's a caring form of capitalism.�</div>
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