commons.hour session#6 - Contribution accounting - Why, how, who?
Lynn Foster & Bob Haugen (mikorizal.org, valueflo.ws)
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Why contribution accounting?
Cooperative economy and capitalist economy; use value & exchange value
Contributions in commons and coops - Kinds of contributions (livelihood/care/love; labour/in-kind/money)
Paid and unpaid work
Income distribution
Open value accounting
Distributed organisations - the D in DisCO
Cooperative practice - the C in DisCO -
What kind of tools? What kind of practice?
Income distribution and value equations; credits; contribution logging; software tools and app ecosystems. -
Who does/did contribution accounting?
Sensorica, Bettermeans, Guerrilla Media Collective, FairCoop, DisCO -
Issues
Organisational culture, trust, historic investment in early development, ‘being fair’, best practice
28 March 2022 (Fourth Monday). Gathering starts 18:00 UTC, closes at 19:00.
Extra time runs from 19:00 for half an hour, for offers & wants, informal check-in and organiser-chat.
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The gathering is in the commons.hour room at meet. coop. For best performance, please use Firefox or Chrome browser, and a PC or laptop. The meeting will be recorded. If you wish to be anonymous you should join with an altered name, and leave your camera off.
Essential links
- Background notes: To be posted xxx.
- Discussion thread - Session#6 discussion Post-meeting links & resources (video recording, shared notes, take-home summary, etc) will be posted here. Feel free to open discussion on this topic at any time - even before the session would be great!