# Governance Model

**URL:** https://forum.meet.coop/t/governance-model/128
**Category:** Organization circle
**Created:** [18 June 2020 14:52 UTC](https://forum.meet.coop/t/governance-model/128 "2020-06-18T14:52:29Z")
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### Author: ![decentral1se](https://forum.meet.coop/user_avatar/forum.meet.coop/decentral1se/32/26_2.png) [@decentral1se](https://forum.meet.coop/u/decentral1se)
#### Post date: [21 June 2020 19:33 UTC](https://forum.meet.coop/t/governance-model/128/12 "2020-06-21T19:33:31Z")

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> [@chris](#):
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> > [@osb](#):
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> > I think we are missing a trick by not offering [meet.coop](http://meet.coop) services to the wider world - and making it as easy as possible for people to give us their money - instead of giving it to zoom!
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> I’m not convinced that we should have individual customers at a `meet.coop` level, it would mean duplicating of a lot of existing infrastructure (legal structures, invoicing systems, accounting procedures etc) and this would add complexity but I’m not sure that this would be a benefit. I think this might be best left to be managed by the existing co-ops in their respective countries as is currently the case, for example CommonsCloud in Spain, Collective.Tools in Sweden and Webarchitects in the UK and so on…

Both good points! I would agree with leaving it the coop level but then again, I imagine that will totally confuse new customers. They’ll come to the [meet.coop](http://meet.coop) site and then when they get to the sign-up page, they’ll be confronted by the fact that they need to investigate and find a co-op that works for them and re-sells the [meet.coop](http://meet.coop) BBB service.

One attempt to solve this that I have seen is the [Welcome to the CHATONS website | CHATONS](https://chatons.org/en/) “find a service provider” form: [https://chatons.org/en/find](https://chatons.org/en/find) (unfortunately in FR but you’ll get the idea). CHATONS is a platform for a whole bunch of service providers and users can find the right one that works for them from there. I can imagine we could emulate this type of form with a few simple buttons which then selects a provider and takes them directly to their sign up page? That would take some coordination but might work…

Another approach is the “pick a mastodon instance” site for [https://instances.social](https://instances.social). Not very fancy but you can also get the idea here. Guide the user through some basic questions and get straight into sign-up.

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