# Federating **URL:** https://forum.meet.coop/t/federating/1310 **Category:** Strategy **Tags:** time-deliberating, platform-space, social-relations, political-economy, evolution **Created:** [26 February 2023 13:33 UTC](https://forum.meet.coop/t/federating/1310 "2023-02-26T13:33:51Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 2
### Author: ![mikemh](https://forum.meet.coop/user_avatar/forum.meet.coop/mikemh/32/358_2.png) [@mikemh](https://forum.meet.coop/u/mikemh) #### Post date: [26 February 2023 13:49 UTC](https://forum.meet.coop/t/federating/1310/2 "2023-02-26T13:49:35Z")
The topic of federation has come up earlier [here](https://forum.meet.coop/t/evolution-1-find-a-new-home/1293/19)[here](https://forum.meet.coop/t/evolution-1-find-a-new-home/1293/20) and [here](https://forum.meet.coop/t/evolution-1-find-a-new-home/1293/24). I made a presentation on this, here is the playback [Playback](https://bbb.de.meet.coop/playback/presentation/2.3/40d8061c1d67efe88481e8460e0bdc13ffe708b6-1677062902711). This suggests that four areas of focus - corresponding to the four operational Circles of meet. coop - might be adopted as operational domains for four different kinds of coops (or federations of coops), as in the schema below, from the presentation slide deck [Nextcloud](https://cloud.meet.coop/s/3HoXY4j25ae8ayR). There might be federating both within any area (eg back-end platform provision #2, multi-language multi-region front-end member relations #1) and across areas (eg SIngle Sign On, a common federal/libre/anti-GAFAM ‘brand’ across multiple independent platforms) . The ecosystem could be a bit complex! The governance of a federation #4 would be pivotal, including protocols for political economy (fairness) and care work (inclusiveness, solidarity). ![2023 02 21 federating 2023 slide #3](https://forum.meet.coop/uploads/default/original/1X/8a15d1f72b92b16a1900fc0e0bca3a6fdfbbaf8b.jpeg) --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.meet.coop/t/federating/1310)._