Obviously everything is off, we’re falling into tyranny. Anybody wants to take action, look in my post history or PM me.

Thanks! Glad to find allies.

How would you feel about a worker’s cooperative (1share/1vote) with an elected board and president, but also a CEO who gets elected based on a business plan? The CEO would build a management hierarchy to implement the business plan, something that’s missing from typical co-ops.

Equity of socialism with the productivity of capitalism, or at least that’s the hope.

I would say fight back economically by forming cooperatives. This guy and his criminal enterprises are stealing massive amounts of wealth from us, which realistically means prices are just going to keep going up and up and up. Not to mention Hormuz being closed with no end in sight. We need people to become more economically self-reliant ASAP.

Let me know if you want more specific ideas about managing cooperatives (or look at my post history).

Thanks for all the great solutions, I’ll be looking into your advice. Like you said it is definitely a massive project for a beginner, I’m going to take it a step at a time, and maybe do a smaller experimental app first to get my bearings. The good thing is I’m not in too much of a rush so I have time to learn.

My current thinking is that the vote is electronic but you get a paper receipt with a bar code or something. Not sure how it will turn out, like many of these apps it’s a whole project in itself

I was thinking lemmy because of the voting structure. Since it’s internal discussion it could be used by the management to gauge sentiment in the company. It wouldn’t be for federation.

You’re probably right about it being too complex though, just not sure if there’s a lightweight option that’s a closer match than discord discourse (does discourse having voting?). Something to consider.

Sorry I know that’s a bit unclear. The “staff roles” and “managers” are roles that the CEO is able to assign to staff through the software. In other words, it’s the mechanism the CEO uses to construct their hierarchy. Same with performance metrics, those are written expectations that would be entered into the system for each person’s role.

Just to provide an update, someone in programming.dev suggested docker containers so I am researching that now. Thanks

Just to provide an update, someone in programming.dev suggested docker containers so I am researching that now. Thanks

Hmmm, doing some research on containers now, and it does seem like the right way to do this. I’m still learning about server architecture but I didn’t mean to imply it had to be a monolith, the key is it having the capabilities I need.

I’m going to look into Docker and see what I can deploy on it. Seems like a good first step.

Thanks

Yes definitely a beginner with anything networking or web design.

Modular is good though, ideally I would like to bring them all together as one package to share as open-source. I don’t know how that would work with permissions for the applications, but I imagine it would be OK with most (foss) licenses.

There are also some things that might need customization. For example, the value of someone’s vote is determined by the equity recorded in the accounting books, so those two applications will need to share information.

In any case you have given me some direction and I appreciate it, thanks.

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Hello everyone, I’m brand new here and this seems like the perfect place to introduce myself.

I applied to join your community so that I can learn about secure network programming and perhaps find collaborators for an ongoing project.

The project is a template for an Articles of Association for a new type of worker’s cooperative. Rather than completely removing hierarchy as traditional cooperatives do, in my model the executive leadership is elected based on their business plan.

I believe that the executive at the top of an operational hierarchy should be legitimized through a popular election enfranchising all stakeholders, a concept I call Hierarchy by Consent. I believe this will lead to more productive and equitable companies. You can read a more detailed description on this Beehaw thread I created.

In order for the Articles of Association to be useful to anyone, there needs to be open-source all-in-one management software because these organizations could become quite complex right from the get-go. For example, it will need secure voting systems. I haven’t officially started on the software yet but my first step will be to create a requirements list.

My background is in mechanical engineering and systems, and I’d consider myself to be an intermediate programmer. I’m comfortable with local programming including database and GUI design but I lack experience with networking.

If anyone has any suggestions on what directions I take in my research, I’m all ears!

Thanks, Juniperus