# Welcome at The Online Meeting Cooperative forum!

**URL:** https://forum.meet.coop/t/welcome-at-the-online-meeting-cooperative-forum/24
**Category:** Welcome new members
**Tags:** prod, member-user
**Created:** [26 May 2020 08:12 UTC](https://forum.meet.coop/t/welcome-at-the-online-meeting-cooperative-forum/24 "2020-05-26T08:12:15Z")
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### Author: ![benhylau](https://forum.meet.coop/user_avatar/forum.meet.coop/benhylau/32/12_2.png) [@benhylau](https://forum.meet.coop/u/benhylau)
#### Post date: [19 May 2021 10:28 UTC](https://forum.meet.coop/t/welcome-at-the-online-meeting-cooperative-forum/24/56 "2021-05-19T10:28:36Z")

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Welcome to the cooperative!

> [@jackhill](#):
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> It is great that by running an instance as a community, we are able to bring videoconferencing to everyone without a requirement that everyone invest the energy, time, and expertise to make it happen.

Yes this is exactly it, and in the process we practice making decisions together, to operate larger and larger scale infrastructure in a cooperative manner. It also seems you are connected to many like-minded folks 🙂

A while back @osb and I did [a presentation](https://forum.meet.coop/t/presentations-by-meet-coop/439/3) looking at dominant SaaS like Slack and Zoom, and what our cooperative could be. Of course we can’t compare numbers, but I think [we are hitting important milestones](https://twitter.com/LauBenedict/status/1394954909477482497) as such a young organization.

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