
From a distributed network to a decentralized web The cooperative movement is a distributed network, comprising autonomous entities guided by common values and a sense of cooperation rather than competition. Uniformization would be irrelevant: autonomy and diversity…

The web is marginalizing cooperatives: it’s now time to move on The cooperative movement is embodied in its cooperative associations active around the world, at local, national, and international levels. Cooperative associations pursue two main functions: promoting…
Happy Dev and Startin’blox don’t have any employee. Zero. Instead they have backlogs, or lists of tasks that need to get done. And there’s a whole lot of people working freelance to solve these tasks. Then there’s…

Happy Dev was born in 2015 out of the will to gather professionals of the web industry together in an organization that feels right. We didn’t want to choose between our autonomy and a collective organization. Between…
This article was first published on Open initiative’s blog in 2014. This is the third part, start by the first or the second part if you haven’t read them yet. The revolution is yours! That theorical model…
This article was first published on Open initiative’s blog in 2014. This is the second part, start by the first part if you haven’t read it yet. An new industrial model So what makes it consistent? All…
This article was first published on Open initiative’s blog in 2014. An ongoing revolution You might have heard about Wikispeed, the open source car project started by Joe Justice in Seattle. You may think that “open source…
This article was first published on Open initiative’s blog in 2014. This is the third part, start by the first part or the second one if you haven’t read them yet. The software industry to date has…
This article was first published on Open initiative’s blog in 2014. This is the second part, start by the first part if you haven’t read it yet. The software industry to date has thrived by reproducing the…
This article was first published on Open initiative’s blog in 2014. The software industry to date has thrived by reproducing the manufacturing model it was created in. But now with the power of distributed peer-to-peer networks it…