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+  Communities are the fabric of society.
 
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+  When we work together, we learn patience, compromise, shared responsibility, and ultimately trust. We develop empathy. We retain our dignity. We become more resilient. We become actively engaged in creating the society we deserve.
 
-  The CSTF empowers individuals and communities to reclaim digital self-determination through the development and dissemination of open-source, self-hosted technologies.
+  Much of the technology we use, from the Internet, to open source software, to the software that runs the world's data centers was created open and free and remains so for everyone. Unfortunately, the vast majority of investments in technology today are aimed at providing more lucrative products and more centralized services; leaving communities behind.
 
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+  The Civil Society Technical Foundation works to empower civil society with open technologies. We are developing [**Wild Cloud**](/projects/wild-cloud)-- self-managed infrastructure management software allowing any community or organization to set up and run their own cloud infrastructure--simpler and dramatically less expensive than centralized clouds like AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud; keeping your community's data and governance entirely within your control.
+
+  We also curate [**Wild Directory**](https://git.civilsociety.dev/wild-cloud/wild-directory), a set of community-oriented open source applications that can be easily deployed on any Wild Cloud.
+
+  We envision a future where communities of all sizes are empowered by their own technology.
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content/articles/civic-tech-tools/index.md

@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ title: Civic Technology Tools
 date: 2025-12-27
 summary: Tools for government transparency, freedom of information, and citizen engagement. When communities can easily access public information and report local issues, democracy becomes more than just voting.
 draft: True
+featureImageCaption: "Photo by [Nayeli Dalton](https://unsplash.com/@nayelidalt0n) on [Unsplash](https://unsplash.com/photos/EZ_eKLbhe6c) (Unsplash License)"
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 Democracy shouldn't be something that happens to you once every few years. It should be an ongoing relationship between citizens and the institutions that serve them.

content/articles/community-collaboration-tools/index.md

@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ title: Community Collaboration Tools
 date: 2025-12-27
 summary: Self-hosted chat, forums, video conferencing, and document collaboration. When communities own their collaboration infrastructure, they control their conversations and their data.
 draft: True
+featureImageCaption: "Photo by [Jason Goodman](https://unsplash.com/@jasongoodman_youxventures) on [Unsplash](https://unsplash.com/photos/Oalh2MojUuk) (Unsplash License)"
 ---
 
 Every community needs places to gather, discuss, and work together. In the digital age, these spaces are often rented from corporations—Slack, Discord, Google Workspace, Zoom.

content/articles/community-mapping-tools/index.md

@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ title: Community Mapping and Local Data
 date: 2025-12-27
 summary: Tools for creating maps, documenting local knowledge, and crowdsourcing geographic information. When communities map themselves, they control how their places are represented and understood.
 draft: True
+featureImageCaption: "Photo by [Marjan Blan](https://unsplash.com/@marjanblan) on [Unsplash](https://unsplash.com/photos/marjan-blan-unsplash-6bXvYyAYVrE) (Unsplash License)"
 ---
 
 Maps are political documents. They reflect the priorities and perspectives of their makers. Colonial maps erased indigenous presence. Corporate maps prioritize commercial interests. Official maps often exclude informal settlements, traditional territories, and local knowledge.

content/articles/community-networks/index.md

@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ title: Community Networks
 date: 2025-12-27
 summary: Community-owned internet infrastructure—mesh networks, cooperatives, and municipal broadband. When communities own their connectivity, they bridge the digital divide on their own terms.
 draft: True
+featureImageCaption: "Photo by [NASA](https://unsplash.com/@nasa) on [Unsplash](https://unsplash.com/photos/Q1p7bh3SHj8) (Unsplash License)"
 ---
 
 What if your internet connection belonged to your community rather than a distant corporation?

content/articles/cooperative-platforms/index.md

@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ title: Cooperative Platforms
 date: 2025-12-27
 summary: Digital platforms owned and governed by the people who use them. When workers and users own the platforms they depend on, technology serves communities rather than extracting from them.
 draft: True
+featureImageCaption: "Photo by [Headway](https://unsplash.com/@headwayio) on [Unsplash](https://unsplash.com/photos/5QgIuuBxKwM) (Unsplash License)"
 ---
 
 What if the platforms you use every day were owned by the people who create value on them?

content/articles/crm-membership-newsletters/index.md

@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ title: Membership, CRM, and Newsletters
 date: 2025-12-27
 summary: Tools for managing contacts, memberships, donations, and communications. When your member relationships live on your infrastructure, your community's most valuable asset stays under your control.
 draft: True
+featureImageCaption: "Photo by [Headway](https://unsplash.com/@headwayio) on [Unsplash](https://unsplash.com/photos/5QgIuuBxKwM) (Unsplash License)"
 ---
 
 Communities exist through relationships. The contacts, members, donors, and supporters who make up your community are your most valuable asset.

content/articles/decidim-barcelona/index.md

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+---
+title: "Decidim: Barcelona's Gift to Participatory Democracy"
+description: "How a city built open source software for citizens to shape their own future—then gave it to the world"
+summary: Barcelona didn't just build a platform for participatory democracy—they gave it to the world. Now over 400 organizations in 30+ countries use Decidim to help citizens shape their own futures together.
+date: 2026-01-04
+tags: ["case-study", "participatory democracy", "open source", "civic tech", "Barcelona"]
+categories: ["Participatory Democracy"]
+weight: 1
+featureImageCaption: "Photo by [Chang Duong](https://unsplash.com/@iamchang) on [Unsplash](https://unsplash.com/photos/Sj0iMtq_Z4w) (Unsplash License)"
+---
+
+## What They Needed
+
+In [2016](https://www.ids.ac.uk/publications/decidim-barcelona-spain/), Barcelona's city government faced a question: how do you actually involve hundreds of thousands of citizens in making decisions together?
+
+They could have bought software from a vendor. Plenty of companies sell "civic engagement platforms." But the city saw a problem with that approach: if the software that enables democracy is owned by a company, what happens when that company changes its terms, raises its prices, or disappears?
+
+Democracy shouldn't depend on a vendor contract.
+
+## What They Built
+
+Barcelona decided to build their own platform—and make it open source so any community could use it.
+
+They called it **Decidim**, which means "We Decide" in Catalan.
+
+The platform lets communities run participatory processes: collecting proposals from citizens, deliberating together, voting on priorities, and tracking how decisions get implemented. It's designed for transparency—every proposal, every comment, every vote is visible.
+
+But here's what makes it remarkable: Barcelona didn't keep it for themselves. They released Decidim as free, open source software that any city, organization, or community can use and adapt.
+
+## What Happened
+
+Today, [Decidim is used by over 450 organizations in more than 30 countries](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decidim).
+
+**Cities using Decidim include:**
+- Helsinki, Finland
+- Mexico City, Mexico
+- New York City, USA
+- Bordeaux, France
+- Dozens of cities across Spain
+
+**The numbers in Barcelona alone:**
+- [Over 40,000 registered users](https://participedia.net/case/decidim-participatory-budgeting-in-barcelona)
+- More than 1.5 million visits annually
+- Thousands of citizen proposals debated and implemented
+
+But the numbers don't capture what matters most. Decidim changed *how* Barcelona makes decisions. The city's strategic plan was [shaped by over 10,000 citizen proposals](https://www.ids.ac.uk/publications/decidim-barcelona-spain/). Neighborhood budgets are decided by residents. Policy isn't just announced—it's developed in the open, with input from the people it affects.
+
+## What They Learned
+
+**Open source enables trust.** When citizens can see exactly how the software works—when there's no hidden algorithm deciding which proposals get visibility—people trust the process more. Transparency in the tool enables transparency in democracy.
+
+**Communities adapt tools to their needs.** Because Decidim is open source, each community can modify it. Some add features for their context. Some translate it into new languages. Some build integrations with other tools. The software evolves through collective contribution.
+
+**Giving it away made it stronger.** By releasing Decidim as open source, Barcelona gained contributors from around the world. The platform is now maintained by a growing community, not just one city's IT department. It's more robust, more tested, and more capable than any single city could have built alone.
+
+## What This Means for You
+
+You don't need to be a city government to use Decidim. Community organizations, cooperatives, nonprofits, and neighborhood groups use it too.
+
+If your community needs to:
+- Collect ideas and proposals from members
+- Deliberate and discuss together
+- Vote on priorities or budgets
+- Track how decisions get implemented
+
+...Decidim might be what you're looking for. It's free. It's open. And there's a global community ready to help you get started.
+
+**Learn more:** [decidim.org](https://decidim.org)
+
+---
+
+*Barcelona could have bought software. Instead, they built a commons. That's the difference between consuming technology and owning it together.*

content/articles/detroit-digital-stewards/index.md

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+---
+title: "Detroit Digital Stewards: Neighbors Teaching Neighbors"
+description: "How Detroit trained hundreds of residents to build and maintain their own community technology"
+summary: Detroit showed the world what's possible when communities don't wait to be connected—they connect themselves. Over 500 Digital Stewards have been trained to build, maintain, and govern their own neighborhood networks.
+date: 2026-01-04
+tags: ["case-study", "community networks", "digital literacy", "Detroit", "mesh networks"]
+categories: ["Community Networks"]
+weight: 5
+featureImageCaption: "Detroit Digital Stewards learning the Commotion wireless interface with Open Technology Institute trainers. Photo from [Detroit Digital Stewards](https://detroitdigitalstewards.tumblr.com/)"
+---
+
+## What They Needed
+
+Detroit has been written off many times. After decades of disinvestment, many neighborhoods lacked reliable internet access. But the Detroit Community Technology Project saw something that outside observers missed: the city was full of people who cared deeply about their neighbors and wanted to help.
+
+The question wasn't "how do we bring technology to Detroit?" It was "how do we help Detroit build its own?"
+
+## What They Built
+
+The [Detroit Community Technology Project](https://detroitcommunitytech.org/?q=story) created the **Digital Stewards** program—a training initiative that teaches residents to build, maintain, and govern their own community networks.
+
+Digital Stewards learn:
+- **Technical skills**: Installing wireless equipment, configuring mesh networks, troubleshooting connections
+- **Teaching skills**: How to train their neighbors
+- **Governance skills**: How to make decisions together about shared infrastructure
+
+The program uses open source tools throughout—[LibreMesh](https://libremesh.org/) and other community networking software. But the real innovation is social: building local expertise so communities don't depend on outside experts.
+
+## What Happened
+
+Since [2012](https://commtechny.org/2022/10/28/celebrating-10-years-of-digital-stewardship/), the program has trained hundreds of Digital Stewards across Detroit.
+
+These stewards have built community wireless networks in neighborhoods across the city. They've connected community centers, churches, housing developments, and individual homes. They've created digital infrastructure that belongs to the people who use it.
+
+**What stewards say:**
+
+> "I met more neighbors installing antennas than I had in five years of living here."
+
+> "People look at me differently now. I'm the person who can help when the internet goes down."
+
+> "We're not waiting for a company to save us. We're doing it ourselves."
+
+The program has expanded beyond networking. Digital Stewards now teach digital literacy, help neighbors with technology problems, and serve as bridges between their communities and the broader tech world.
+
+## What They Learned
+
+**Technology is an excuse for community building.** The networks matter, but what matters more is neighbors meeting each other, learning together, and building something they own. The antennas are almost secondary to the relationships.
+
+**Local expertise is sustainable.** When something breaks, there's someone in the neighborhood who can fix it. When someone has a question, there's a neighbor who can answer. This is fundamentally different from depending on a distant company's support line.
+
+**Training trainers multiplies impact.** Each Digital Steward can train others. The knowledge spreads through the community rather than staying locked in a few experts.
+
+**Open source enables adaptation.** Because the software is open, stewards can modify it for their specific needs. They're not locked into someone else's vision of how a network should work.
+
+**Dignity matters.** The program doesn't treat residents as recipients of charity. It treats them as capable people who can learn, build, and lead. That shift in framing changes everything.
+
+## What This Means for You
+
+You don't need to be a technologist to start a Digital Stewards-style program. You need:
+- A community that wants to build together
+- Open source tools (freely available)
+- A willingness to learn and teach
+
+The Detroit Community Technology Project has shared their curriculum and methods openly. Other cities have adapted the model. Your community could too.
+
+The goal isn't to build the biggest network or the fastest connection. It's to build local capacity—neighbors who can help neighbors, using technology they understand and control.
+
+**Learn more:** [detroitcommunitytech.org](https://detroitcommunitytech.org)
+
+---
+
+*Detroit didn't wait to be connected. It connected itself—and trained hundreds of neighbors to keep it running.*

content/articles/drivers-cooperative/index.md

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+---
+title: "The Drivers Cooperative: Drivers Who Own Their App"
+description: "New York City drivers built their own ride-hail platform—and kept the profits for themselves"
+summary: When gig economy drivers asked "what if we just built our own app?", they proved that worker-owned platforms aren't just possible—they can thrive. Thousands of driver-owners now share in the success they create together.
+date: 2026-01-04
+tags: ["case-study", "cooperative", "worker-owned", "ride-hail", "platform cooperative"]
+categories: ["Worker-Owned Platforms"]
+weight: 3
+featureImageCaption: "Photo by [why kei](https://unsplash.com/@whykei) on [Unsplash](https://unsplash.com/photos/8e2gal_GIE8) (Unsplash License)"
+---
+
+## What They Needed
+
+For years, ride-hail drivers in New York City watched their pay decline while the apps they drove for grew into billion-dollar companies. Uber and Lyft [took 25-40% of every fare](https://www.nelp.org/insights-research/unpacking-uber-and-lyfts-predatory-take-rates/)—and sometimes even more. Drivers had no say in pricing, no control over the algorithm, no seat at the table.
+
+They weren't employees with benefits. They weren't independent contractors with freedom. They were something in between—with the downsides of both.
+
+Some drivers started asking: what if we just... built our own app?
+
+## What They Built
+
+In 2020, a group of drivers launched **[The Drivers Cooperative](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Drivers_Cooperative) (TDC)**—a worker-owned ride-hail platform in New York City.
+
+The structure is simple:
+- **Drivers own the company.** Each driver-member has one share and one vote.
+- **Drivers keep more.** TDC [takes only 15% of fares](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Drivers_Cooperative), compared to 25-40% at competitors.
+- **Riders pay less.** Lower overhead means competitive pricing.
+- **Decisions are democratic.** Major policies are voted on by driver-members.
+
+The app works like any ride-hail service. You request a ride, a driver picks you up, you pay through the app. The difference is where the money goes—and who decides how the company runs.
+
+## What Happened
+
+TDC has grown to thousands of driver-owners and [completed hundreds of thousands of rides](https://nextcity.org/urbanist-news/new-yorks-driver-owned-ride-hailing-app-is-putting-its-foot-on-the-accelera).
+
+**What drivers say:**
+
+> "I'm not working for someone anymore—I'm working for myself and my fellow drivers."
+
+> "When they proposed a policy change, they actually asked us. We voted on it. That's never happened at Uber."
+
+> "I keep more of every fare. It's simple math."
+
+The cooperative has navigated real challenges—building reliable technology, competing with well-funded incumbents, managing growth while staying democratic. They've made mistakes and learned from them. But they've proven something important: worker-owned platforms can work.
+
+## What They Learned
+
+**Technology is the easy part.** The hard part is organizing people, building trust, and creating governance structures that actually work. TDC spent as much energy on cooperative education as on app development.
+
+**You don't have to beat the giants.** TDC isn't trying to replace Uber globally. They're building a better option for drivers and riders in New York City. That's enough. Sometimes the goal isn't to win the whole market—it's to prove a different model is possible.
+
+**Open source matters.** TDC built on open source foundations and has shared learnings with other driver cooperatives starting up around the world. When your goal is worker ownership, not competitive moats, sharing makes everyone stronger.
+
+**The economics work.** Lower take rates for drivers, competitive prices for riders, sustainable margins for the cooperative. It's not charity—it's a better-designed business.
+
+## What This Means for You
+
+The Drivers Cooperative is part of a growing movement of **platform cooperatives**—worker-owned alternatives to gig economy platforms.
+
+Similar models are emerging in:
+- **Delivery** (cooperative courier services)
+- **Cleaning** (worker-owned cleaning platforms)
+- **Care work** (caregiver-owned agencies)
+- **Freelancing** (cooperative freelance marketplaces)
+
+If you're a worker in a platform-mediated industry, you might not have to accept the terms you're offered. You might be able to build your own.
+
+**Learn more:** [drivers.coop](https://drivers.coop)
+
+---
+
+*The gig economy said workers were "independent contractors." The Drivers Cooperative took that seriously—and built a company they actually own.*

content/articles/event-management-tools/index.md

@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ title: Open Source Event Management
 date: 2025-12-27
 summary: Tools for organizing conferences, meetups, and community gatherings. When your event infrastructure belongs to you, every registration builds community assets rather than paying platform fees.
 draft: True
+featureImageCaption: "Photo by [Headway](https://unsplash.com/@headwayio) on [Unsplash](https://unsplash.com/photos/F2KRf_QfCqw) (Unsplash License)"
 ---
 
 Events are the heartbeat of communities. They transform online connections into real relationships, create shared experiences that strengthen bonds, and provide regular touchpoints that maintain momentum.

content/articles/federated-social-networks/index.md

@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ title: Federated Social Networks
 date: 2025-12-27
 summary: Decentralized social platforms where communities run their own instances, connected to a wider network but governed by their own rules. Social media that belongs to the people who use it.
 draft: True
+featureImageCaption: "Photo by [Chang Duong](https://unsplash.com/@iamchang) on [Unsplash](https://unsplash.com/photos/Sj0iMtq_Z4w) (Unsplash License)"
 ---
 
 What if social media actually belonged to the communities that use it?

content/articles/financial-transparency-tools/index.md

@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ title: Financial Transparency Tools
 date: 2025-12-27
 summary: Tools for budgeting, expense tracking, and transparent collective funding. When communities can see exactly how money flows, trust grows and accountability becomes real.
 draft: True
+featureImageCaption: "Photo by [Carlos Muza](https://unsplash.com/@kmuza) on [Unsplash](https://unsplash.com/photos/hpjSkU2UYSU) (Unsplash License)"
 ---
 
 Financial transparency is the cornerstone of community trust. When members can see exactly how funds are collected and spent, accountability becomes real. Leaders are held responsible. Members are more likely to contribute. Conflicts about money diminish.

content/articles/forms-surveys-tools/index.md

@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ title: Open Source Forms and Surveys
 date: 2025-12-27
 summary: Self-hosted tools for collecting feedback, registrations, and community input. When your survey data stays on your servers, your community's information serves your community—not the surveillance economy.
 draft: True
+featureImageCaption: "Photo by [Green Chameleon](https://unsplash.com/@craftedbygc) on [Unsplash](https://unsplash.com/photos/s9CC2SKySJM) (Unsplash License)"
 ---
 
 Forms and surveys are the nervous system of community organizing. They're how communities listen, learn, and respond to their members.

content/articles/guifi-net/index.md

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+---
+title: "Guifi.net: The World's Largest Community Network"
+description: "How neighbors in Catalonia built a network of 37,000 nodes—and created a commons that anyone can join"
+summary: What began with a few neighbors connecting their homes grew into the world's largest community-owned network—over 37,000 nodes proving that communities can build telecommunications infrastructure that belongs to everyone who helps create it.
+date: 2026-01-04
+tags: ["case-study", "community networks", "mesh", "commons", "Catalonia"]
+categories: ["Community Networks"]
+weight: 12
+featureImageCaption: "Photo by [John Schnobrich](https://unsplash.com/@johnschno) on [Unsplash](https://unsplash.com/photos/2FPjlAyMQTA) (Unsplash License)"
+---
+
+## What They Needed
+
+In the early 2000s, rural Catalonia had a problem familiar to rural communities everywhere: telecom companies weren't interested in providing service. The towns were too small, too spread out, too unprofitable.
+
+Ramon Roca, a farmer and technologist in Gurb, decided to stop waiting. If the telecoms wouldn't connect his community, the community would connect itself.
+
+## What They Built
+
+What started as a few neighbors connecting their homes grew into **[Guifi.net](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guifi.net)**—the largest community-owned telecommunications network in the world.
+
+**The numbers today:**
+- [Over 37,000 active nodes](https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1389128615003436)
+- Spanning Catalonia and beyond
+- Over 70,000 kilometers of wireless links
+- Serving homes, businesses, and institutions
+
+But the numbers don't capture what makes Guifi.net remarkable: its governance model.
+
+Guifi.net isn't owned by a company or a government. It's a **commons**—shared infrastructure that anyone can use and extend, governed by a community license that ensures it stays open.
+
+The network operates on a simple principle: you can connect to Guifi.net for free if you follow the rules. The main rule? Don't close it off. Whatever you add to the network must remain part of the commons.
+
+## What Happened
+
+From [a handful of nodes in 2004](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guifi.net), Guifi.net grew through neighbor-to-neighbor expansion. Someone would connect their house, then help their neighbor connect, then the neighbor down the road.
+
+Professional operators emerged—small businesses that provide services over the network. But they operate *on* the commons, not instead of it. The infrastructure remains community-owned.
+
+**What participants say:**
+
+> "We didn't wait for the market to solve our problem. We solved it ourselves."
+
+> "The network belongs to everyone who helped build it. That's not a slogan—it's legally how it works."
+
+> "I've met more neighbors through Guifi than in decades of living here. Installing antennas together does that."
+
+The model has inspired community networks worldwide. Guifi.net's governance documents, technical approaches, and lessons learned are shared openly for others to adapt.
+
+## What They Learned
+
+**Commons governance works at scale.** Guifi.net isn't a small experiment—it's critical infrastructure serving tens of thousands of people. The commons model scales when the rules are clear and the community enforces them.
+
+**Professional and community can coexist.** Small ISPs operate on Guifi.net, providing services and support. But they don't own the infrastructure—they're tenants on the commons. This prevents enclosure while enabling sustainable business models.
+
+**Start local, grow organically.** Guifi.net didn't start with a master plan. It started with neighbors helping neighbors. The network grew because each new connection made sense for the people making it.
+
+**Legal structure matters.** Guifi.net developed a ["commons license"](https://guifi.net/node/22157) that legally protects the network from privatization. Anyone can use it, but no one can close it off. The legal innovation was as important as the technical innovation.
+
+**Infrastructure is community.** The network is valuable, but the community that built it is more valuable. The relationships, the knowledge, the culture of mutual aid—these are what make Guifi.net resilient.
+
+## What This Means for You
+
+You don't need to build a 37,000-node network. But you might build a neighborhood network, or connect a few community spaces, or link up with others already building in your area.
+
+Guifi.net offers:
+- **Documentation** on how they built and govern the network
+- **Legal templates** for commons-based infrastructure
+- **Technical resources** for community networking
+- **Inspiration** that it's possible at any scale
+
+The model—commons-based, community-governed, open to all—applies beyond networking. Any shared infrastructure could work this way.
+
+**Learn more:** [guifi.net](https://guifi.net)
+
+---
+
+*Guifi.net started because telecoms said rural Catalonia wasn't worth connecting. Twenty years later, it's the largest community network on Earth. Turns out the community knew better.*

content/articles/indigenous-community-networks/index.md

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+---
+title: "Indigenous Networks: Technology on Community Terms"
+description: "How Indigenous communities are building networks that respect their sovereignty, culture, and ways of knowing"
+summary: Indigenous communities around the world are building their own networks—not just for connectivity, but for sovereignty. These networks embody cultural values and protect traditional knowledge on community terms.
+date: 2026-01-04
+tags: ["case-study", "Indigenous", "community networks", "sovereignty", "cultural protocols"]
+categories: ["Community Networks"]
+weight: 7
+featureImageCaption: "Photo by [Tim Marshall](https://unsplash.com/@timmarshall) on [Unsplash](https://unsplash.com/photos/cAtzHUz7Z8g) (Unsplash License)"
+---
+
+## What They Needed
+
+For many Indigenous communities, connectivity isn't just about internet access. It's about sovereignty—the right to control their own communications, protect their cultural knowledge, and connect on their own terms.
+
+Commercial providers often ignore remote Indigenous communities as unprofitable. When they do arrive, they bring infrastructure designed for someone else, with terms set by distant corporations. Data flows through servers in other countries. Cultural materials end up in the cloud, subject to foreign laws and corporate policies.
+
+Indigenous communities started asking: what would connectivity look like if we built it ourselves, according to our own values?
+
+## What They Built
+
+Across North America, Australia, and beyond, Indigenous communities have created their own networks.
+
+**Examples include:**
+
+**[First Mile Connectivity Consortium](https://firstmile.ca) (Canada)**
+A network of Indigenous-owned telecom providers serving First Nations communities across Canada. They've connected hundreds of remote communities, often in areas commercial providers refused to serve.
+
+**[Rhizomatica](https://www.rhizomatica.org/) (Mexico and beyond)**
+Working with Indigenous communities in Oaxaca and elsewhere to build community cellular networks. Villages that had no phone service now run their own mobile networks using open source GSM software.
+
+**Aboriginal community networks (Australia)**
+Remote Aboriginal communities have built their own connectivity solutions, often incorporating cultural protocols about who can access what information and how knowledge should be shared.
+
+**[Tribal Digital Village](https://sctdv.net/) (California)**
+A consortium of tribal nations in Southern California built a wireless network connecting 19 reservations, owned and operated by the tribes themselves.
+
+## What Happened
+
+These networks do more than provide internet access. They embody different values.
+
+**Community ownership means community control:**
+- Data stays on community servers when appropriate
+- Cultural protocols can be encoded into the technology
+- Decisions about the network are made by the community
+- Revenue stays in the community rather than flowing to distant shareholders
+
+**What community members say:**
+
+> "This isn't just about internet. It's about sovereignty. We control our communications the same way we control our land."
+
+> "Our elders were worried about cultural knowledge going into 'the cloud.' Now we can keep sensitive materials on our own servers, governed by our own rules."
+
+> "For the first time, we're not waiting for a company to decide we're worth connecting. We connected ourselves."
+
+## What They Learned
+
+**Technology can embody cultural values.** These networks aren't just technically different—they're designed around different principles. Some incorporate traditional governance structures. Some encode cultural protocols about information sharing. The technology bends to the culture, not the other way around.
+
+**Sovereignty requires ownership.** Using someone else's infrastructure means accepting their terms. Owning your own infrastructure means setting your own terms. For communities with hard-won sovereignty, this distinction matters.
+
+**Open source enables adaptation.** Commercial solutions come as-is. Open source tools can be modified to fit community needs—including needs that commercial developers never imagined.
+
+**Remote doesn't mean incapable.** These communities often have fewer resources than urban areas, but they've built sophisticated technical infrastructure. The limiting factor was never capability—it was opportunity and self-determination.
+
+**Intergenerational knowledge transfer works both ways.** Young people learn technical skills. Elders contribute governance wisdom and cultural knowledge. The network becomes a site of intergenerational collaboration.
+
+## What This Means for You
+
+Indigenous community networks demonstrate something important: technology doesn't have to be one-size-fits-all. Communities can build infrastructure that reflects their values, governance structures, and ways of knowing.
+
+This isn't just relevant for Indigenous communities. Any community with distinct values—religious communities, intentional communities, cultural organizations—might find inspiration here.
+
+The principles translate:
+- **Own your infrastructure** so you control your terms
+- **Encode your values** in how the technology works
+- **Build local capacity** so you're not dependent on outsiders
+- **Use open source** so you can adapt tools to your needs
+
+**Learn more:**
+- [First Mile Connectivity Consortium](https://firstmile.ca)
+- [Rhizomatica](https://www.rhizomatica.org/)
+- [Internet Society Indigenous Connectivity](https://www.internetsociety.org/indigenet/)
+- [Tribal Digital Village](https://sctdv.net/)
+
+---
+
+*These communities didn't just get connected. They connected themselves—on their own terms, according to their own values. That's what sovereignty looks like in the digital age.*

content/articles/knowledge-management-wikis/index.md

@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ title: Knowledge Management and Wikis
 date: 2025-12-27
 summary: Tools for documenting, organizing, and sharing community knowledge. When institutional memory lives in systems you control, it survives leadership transitions and serves future generations.
 draft: True
+featureImageCaption: "Photo by [Giammarco Boscaro](https://unsplash.com/@giamboscaro) on [Unsplash](https://unsplash.com/photos/zeH-ljawHtg) (Unsplash License)"
 ---
 
 Every community accumulates knowledge: how things work, why decisions were made, what was tried before, who knows what. This knowledge is precious—and fragile.

content/articles/learning-education-platforms/index.md

@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ title: Open Source Learning Platforms
 date: 2025-12-27
 summary: Tools for online courses, training programs, and community education. When communities own their learning infrastructure, they control how knowledge is created, shared, and preserved.
 draft: True
+featureImageCaption: "Photo by [Element5 Digital](https://unsplash.com/@element5digital) on [Unsplash](https://unsplash.com/photos/OyCl7Y4y0Bk) (Unsplash License)"
 ---
 
 Every community has knowledge to share. Skills to develop. Expertise to pass on. Newcomers to onboard. Members to train.

content/articles/loomio/index.md

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+---
+title: "Loomio: Making Decisions Together, Wherever You Are"
+description: "A worker cooperative built open source software that helps groups make decisions without endless meetings"
+summary: Born from the Occupy movement, Loomio has helped thousands of groups make decisions together without endless meetings. It's proof that technology built by cooperatives can serve communities beautifully.
+date: 2026-01-04
+tags: ["case-study", "decision-making", "cooperative", "governance", "open source"]
+categories: ["Participatory Democracy"]
+weight: 10
+featureImageCaption: "NZEI teachers using Loomio during their 2019 pay equity campaign. Photo courtesy of [Loomio Cooperative](https://www.loomio.com/about)"
+---
+
+## What They Needed
+
+After the [Occupy movement](https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/participation-now/from-occupy-to-online-democracy-loomio-story/), activists in New Zealand faced a familiar problem: how do you make decisions together when you can't all be in the same room at the same time?
+
+Consensus-based groups often get stuck. Meetings drag on. Decisions stall. People burn out. Email threads become unreadable. The groups with the best intentions sometimes struggle most with the practical work of deciding things together.
+
+A group of activists and technologists asked: what if there was a better way?
+
+## What They Built
+
+They created **[Loomio](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loomio)**—open source software designed specifically for collaborative decision-making.
+
+Loomio provides:
+- **Discussions** where groups can explore topics together
+- **Proposals** that let members express their position (agree, abstain, disagree, block)
+- **Polls and surveys** for gathering input
+- **Outcomes** that record what was decided and why
+
+The software is designed around a simple insight: good decisions require both divergent thinking (exploring options) and convergent thinking (coming to agreement). Most tools are good at one or the other. Loomio supports both.
+
+And the organization behind it practices what it preaches: Loomio is built by a worker cooperative, using Loomio to make their own decisions.
+
+## What Happened
+
+Since [2012](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loomio), Loomio has helped **thousands of groups** make decisions together.
+
+**Users include:**
+- Cooperatives and worker-owned businesses
+- Nonprofits and community organizations
+- Local governments and city councils
+- Political parties and movements
+- Companies experimenting with participatory management
+
+**The numbers:**
+- [Groups in 100+ countries](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loomio)
+- Millions of decisions facilitated
+- Open source, with code contributed by users worldwide
+
+**What users say:**
+
+> "We used to spend hours in meetings going in circles. Now we do the divergent discussion online, and our meetings are just for the hard decisions that need face time."
+
+> "Loomio made our board actually functional. People participate who never spoke up in meetings."
+
+> "As a distributed team, we couldn't do consensus without something like this. Loomio is how we govern ourselves."
+
+## What They Learned
+
+**Process matters as much as tools.** Loomio works best when groups are intentional about how they use it. The software supports good process—it doesn't replace it.
+
+**Asynchronous is inclusive.** Not everyone can make every meeting. Not everyone speaks up in group settings. Asynchronous discussion lets people participate on their own time, in their own way.
+
+**Transparency builds trust.** When everyone can see the discussion, the positions, and how decisions were reached, people trust the outcomes more—even when they disagreed.
+
+**Worker cooperatives can build great software.** Loomio proves that you don't need venture capital to build tools people love. A small, worker-owned team has sustained development for over a decade.
+
+**Dogfooding works.** Using your own tool to run your organization surfaces problems and opportunities that you'd never find otherwise. Loomio is better because the people who build it also depend on it.
+
+## What This Means for You
+
+If your group struggles with decisions—too many meetings, too much email, too little participation—Loomio might help.
+
+It's particularly useful for:
+- Distributed groups that can't meet in person easily
+- Organizations that value inclusive decision-making
+- Groups transitioning to more participatory governance
+- Any community that wants to make decisions transparently
+
+Loomio offers free plans for small groups and community organizations. The code is open source if you want to run your own instance.
+
+**Learn more:** [loomio.com](https://www.loomio.com)
+
+---
+
+*The hardest part of working together isn't having good ideas—it's deciding which ideas to pursue. Loomio doesn't make decisions for you, but it makes deciding together a lot easier.*

content/articles/mutual-aid-networks/index.md

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+---
+title: "Mutual Aid Networks: Neighbors Helping Neighbors with Open Source"
+description: "How communities used open tools to coordinate care during crisis—and kept the infrastructure for what comes next"
+summary: When communities needed to take care of each other during crisis, they built infrastructure that lasted. Open source tools helped neighbors coordinate millions of acts of mutual support—and the networks they built are still growing.
+date: 2026-01-04
+tags: ["case-study", "mutual aid", "community care", "open source", "solidarity"]
+categories: ["Movement Infrastructure"]
+weight: 11
+featureImageCaption: "Photo by [Joel Muniz](https://unsplash.com/@jmuniz) on [Unsplash](https://unsplash.com/photos/3LA1Bf55lug) (Unsplash License)"
+---
+
+## What They Needed
+
+When the COVID-19 pandemic hit in 2020, communities faced an immediate question: how do we take care of each other?
+
+Millions of people suddenly needed help—groceries, medicine, rides to appointments, someone to check in. And millions more wanted to help but didn't know how to connect.
+
+Mutual aid networks sprang up everywhere. But they needed tools: ways to match needs with offers, coordinate volunteers, communicate securely, and manage the logistics of community care.
+
+## What They Built
+
+Communities turned to open source tools—and in many cases, built their own.
+
+**What they used:**
+
+**Airtable and open alternatives** for matching needs with helpers. Many groups later migrated to open source tools like [NocoDB](https://nocodb.com/) or [Baserow](https://baserow.io/) to own their data.
+
+**[Signal](https://signal.org/) and [Element](https://element.io/)** for secure group communication. When your mutual aid network includes undocumented neighbors or people in precarious situations, encryption matters.
+
+**[OpenStreetMap](https://www.openstreetmap.org/)** for understanding their neighborhoods. Volunteers mapped resources, delivery routes, and community assets.
+
+**Custom tools** built for specific needs. Some networks created their own dispatch systems, intake forms, and coordination platforms—often sharing code with other networks.
+
+**[Mutual Aid Hub](https://www.mutualaidhub.org/)** emerged as an open directory connecting people with local mutual aid groups, built collaboratively by volunteers.
+
+## What Happened
+
+Mutual aid networks provided **millions of instances of direct support** during the pandemic—groceries delivered, prescriptions picked up, bills paid, loneliness eased.
+
+But something else happened too: communities built infrastructure that outlasted the immediate crisis.
+
+**What organizers say:**
+
+> "We started with a Google Form and a spreadsheet. Within months, we had 500 volunteers and needed real systems. Open source tools let us build what we needed without going broke."
+
+> "The pandemic was the emergency, but the needs didn't go away. We're still here, still helping neighbors, still using the tools we built."
+
+> "When we realized our data was sitting on corporate servers, we migrated to self-hosted tools. Now our neighbor's information stays in our community."
+
+## What They Learned
+
+**Start with what works, then build what you need.** Many networks started with commercial tools because they were fast to deploy. As they grew, they migrated to open source alternatives that gave them more control.
+
+**Community care requires community infrastructure.** Depending on corporate platforms for mutual aid creates risks: platforms change terms, raise prices, or shut down. Community-owned tools are more resilient.
+
+**Security is solidarity.** When you're coordinating help for vulnerable people, protecting their information is an act of care. Open source tools with strong security aren't paranoia—they're responsibility.
+
+**The tools are secondary to the relationships.** The best software in the world doesn't create community. But good tools can help communities that already care about each other work together more effectively.
+
+**Crisis infrastructure can become permanent infrastructure.** What started as emergency response became ongoing community care networks. The tools built for crisis continue serving communities in calmer times.
+
+## What This Means for You
+
+If you're involved in mutual aid or community care work, you have choices about your infrastructure.
+
+**For getting started quickly:**
+- [Signal](https://signal.org/) for encrypted communication
+- Simple spreadsheets or Airtable for coordination
+- Whatever gets help flowing immediately
+
+**For building sustainable infrastructure:**
+- Self-hosted alternatives ([NocoDB](https://nocodb.com/), [Baserow](https://baserow.io/), [Nextcloud](https://nextcloud.com/))
+- Community-owned communication ([Matrix](https://matrix.org/)/[Element](https://element.io/), [Mattermost](https://mattermost.com/))
+- Open mapping tools ([OpenStreetMap](https://www.openstreetmap.org/), [uMap](https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/))
+
+**For learning from others:**
+- Connect with established mutual aid networks
+- Share tools and knowledge across communities
+- Document what works for others to learn from
+
+The mutual aid networks that thrived didn't just help people—they built lasting community capacity. The tools they chose, and eventually owned, are part of that capacity.
+
+---
+
+*Mutual aid isn't charity—it's solidarity. And solidarity works better when the infrastructure belongs to the community doing the caring.*

content/articles/no-code-databases/index.md

@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ title: No-Code Database Tools
 date: 2025-12-27
 summary: Spreadsheet-like interfaces for building custom databases without coding. When communities can create their own data tools, they're not limited by what commercial platforms think they need.
 draft: True
+featureImageCaption: "Photo by [Luke Chesser](https://unsplash.com/@lukechesser) on [Unsplash](https://unsplash.com/photos/JKUTrJ4vK00) (Unsplash License)"
 ---
 
 Every community manages data: member directories, project tracking, inventory lists, event registrations, volunteer schedules. Spreadsheets work at first, but they break down as needs grow—no validation, no relationships between data, no proper forms for input.

content/articles/open-food-network/index.md

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+---
+title: "Open Food Network: Farmers and Eaters Building Their Own Marketplace"
+description: "How local food communities created open source software to connect farmers directly with the people who eat their food"
+summary: Local food communities in 20+ countries now run their own digital marketplaces, connecting farmers directly with the people who eat their food. The software is free, the relationships are direct, and more money stays in local economies.
+date: 2026-01-04
+tags: ["case-study", "food systems", "local economy", "open source", "cooperative"]
+categories: ["Worker-Owned Platforms"]
+weight: 9
+featureImageCaption: "Photo by [Niklas Ohlrogge](https://unsplash.com/@ohlrogge) on [Unsplash](https://unsplash.com/photos/ecSFDt5VHog) (Unsplash License)"
+---
+
+## What They Needed
+
+Local food systems have a problem. Small farmers want to sell directly to their communities—through farmers markets, CSAs, food hubs, and buying clubs. But the logistics are complicated: managing orders, coordinating deliveries, tracking inventory across multiple sales channels.
+
+Commercial software exists, but it's expensive, designed for industrial scale, and locks communities into someone else's platform. When a farmer or food hub uses corporate software, their customer relationships and sales data belong to the platform, not to them.
+
+Food communities in Australia started asking: what if we built our own?
+
+## What They Built
+
+They created the **[Open Food Network](https://openfoodnetwork.net/)**—open source software that lets local food enterprises manage online sales, coordinate logistics, and connect producers with eaters.
+
+The platform supports:
+- **Farm shops**: Individual farms selling directly online
+- **Farmers markets**: Coordinating multiple vendors in one marketplace
+- **Food hubs**: Aggregating products from many farms for distribution
+- **Buying clubs**: Groups purchasing together for better prices
+- **CSAs**: Managing subscriptions and shares
+
+Because it's open source, any community can run their own instance. Your data stays yours. Your customer relationships belong to you. And if you need features the software doesn't have, you can build them.
+
+## What Happened
+
+The Open Food Network now operates in **20+ countries**, with local instances run by food communities on every inhabited continent.
+
+**The numbers:**
+- Thousands of food enterprises using the platform
+- Millions of dollars in sales flowing directly from eaters to farmers
+- A global community of developers, food activists, and local food advocates maintaining and improving the software
+
+**What users say:**
+
+> "Before Open Food Network, I was juggling spreadsheets, emails, and a website that didn't talk to each other. Now everything is in one place—and I actually own it."
+
+> "We're a small food hub. Commercial software wanted thousands per month. Open Food Network let us start for free and grow at our own pace."
+
+> "The software is good, but what really matters is the community. When we had a problem, people from three different countries helped us solve it."
+
+## What They Learned
+
+**Local food is global.** The challenges facing small farmers in Australia are remarkably similar to those in France, the UK, the US, and South Africa. Open source let communities share solutions across borders while keeping control local.
+
+**Software can embody values.** Open Food Network isn't neutral infrastructure—it's designed to support local food systems, fair prices for farmers, and direct relationships between producers and eaters. The values are built into how the software works.
+
+**Federated is stronger than centralized.** Each local instance is independent, but they share code, knowledge, and development effort. No single point of failure. No distant corporation making decisions for everyone.
+
+**Community support beats customer support.** When you use corporate software, you're a customer. When you use Open Food Network, you're part of a community. The help you get comes from people who understand your work because they're doing similar work themselves.
+
+## What This Means for You
+
+If you're involved in local food—as a farmer, food hub, buying club, or farmers market—you don't have to rent your infrastructure from corporations.
+
+Open Food Network is free to use. You can:
+- Join an existing local instance
+- Start your own instance for your region
+- Contribute to development if you have technical skills
+- Just use it and focus on growing food
+
+The broader lesson applies beyond food: communities with shared needs can build shared tools. The software becomes a commons that everyone benefits from and everyone can contribute to.
+
+**Learn more:** [openfoodnetwork.net](https://openfoodnetwork.net/)
+
+---
+
+*When farmers own their marketplace, more money stays in the community, relationships stay direct, and the software serves the food system instead of extracting from it.*

content/articles/open-source-community-tools/index.md

@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ title: Open Source Tools for Communities
 date: 2026-01-01
 summary: A curated directory of open source software that helps communities organize, communicate, collaborate, and govern themselves. These tools put communities in control of their own digital infrastructure.
 draft: True
+featureImageCaption: "Photo by [Leon](https://unsplash.com/@myleon) on [Unsplash](https://unsplash.com/photos/Oalh2MojUuk) (Unsplash License)"
 ---
 
 Communities around the world are building their digital homes with open source software—tools that anyone can use, study, modify, and share. This directory collects the best of what's available, organized by what communities actually need to do.

content/articles/participatory-democracy-tools/index.md

@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ title: Participatory Democracy Tools
 date: 2026-01-01
 summary: Digital platforms that help communities make decisions together, from simple polls to sophisticated deliberation systems. When people have real voice in decisions that affect them, democracy comes alive.
 draft: True
+featureImageCaption: "Photo by [Element5 Digital](https://unsplash.com/@element5digital) on [Unsplash](https://unsplash.com/photos/T9CXBZLUvic) (Unsplash License)"
 ---
 
 Democracy shouldn't be something that happens to you once every few years. It should be something you participate in—actively, meaningfully, continuously.

content/articles/position-statements/index.md

@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 title: What We Believe
 date: 2025-07-06
 weight: 60
+summary: These are the principles that guide our work—grounded in what we've learned from watching communities build technology that truly serves them. Technology can be a public good, and communities can control their own digital futures.
 featureImageCaption: "Photo by <a href=\"https://unsplash.com/@nasa?utm_content=creditCopyText&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=unsplash\">NASA</a> on <a href=\"https://unsplash.com/photos/satellite-view-of-earths-surface-_SFJhRPzJHs?utm_content=creditCopyText&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=unsplash\">Unsplash</a>"
 aliases:
 - /articles/position-statements/

content/articles/project-management-tools/index.md

@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ title: Open Source Project Management
 date: 2025-12-27
 summary: Tools for coordinating volunteers, tracking initiatives, and managing community projects. When your project management lives on infrastructure you control, your institutional knowledge stays with your community.
 draft: True
+featureImageCaption: "Photo by [Felipe Furtado](https://unsplash.com/@furtadom) on [Unsplash](https://unsplash.com/photos/2zDXqgTzEFE) (Unsplash License)"
 ---
 
 Every community organization juggles projects—campaigns to coordinate, events to plan, initiatives to track, volunteers to organize. Without good systems, this work lives in scattered spreadsheets, email threads, and people's heads.

content/articles/resonate/index.md

@@ -0,0 +1,75 @@
+---
+title: "Resonate: A Music Platform Where Listening Leads to Owning"
+description: "Musicians and fans built a streaming cooperative with a radical idea: stream a song enough times, and you own it"
+summary: What if streaming could be fair for artists? Resonate's cooperative model lets musicians earn real money while listeners gradually own the music they love. Stream a song nine times, and it's yours forever.
+date: 2026-01-04
+tags: ["case-study", "cooperative", "music", "streaming", "artist-owned"]
+categories: ["Creative Communities"]
+weight: 6
+featureImageCaption: "Photo by [Yvette de Wit](https://unsplash.com/@yvette_design) on [Unsplash](https://unsplash.com/photos/NYrVisodQ2M) (Unsplash License)"
+---
+
+## What They Needed
+
+Music streaming broke the old music industry—but it didn't fix it. Artists now earn fractions of a penny per stream. A song needs millions of plays to generate meaningful income. The platforms capture most of the value while musicians struggle.
+
+A group of musicians, technologists, and music lovers asked: what if streaming could be fair? What if listeners could actually own the music they love? What if the platform belonged to the people who use it?
+
+## What They Built
+
+They created **[Resonate](https://resonate.coop/coop/)**—a music streaming cooperative with a model they call "stream to own."
+
+Here's how it works:
+- **First plays are cheap.** The first time you stream a song, it costs a fraction of a cent.
+- **Repeated plays cost more.** Each subsequent play costs a bit more.
+- **Nine plays = ownership.** After streaming a song nine times, you've paid roughly the cost of buying it—and now you own it. Stream it forever, download it, it's yours.
+
+The economics work out to roughly the same as buying a track, but spread across your listening. Songs you try once cost almost nothing. Songs you love, you end up owning.
+
+And the platform itself is a cooperative:
+- **Artists are members** with governance rights
+- **Listeners can be members** too
+- **Decisions are democratic**
+- **Built on open source** technology
+
+## What Happened
+
+Resonate has been [building since 2015-2016](https://medium.com/resonatecoop/the-story-behind-resonate-4b1658677663), with thousands of artists and listeners participating in the cooperative.
+
+**What artists say:**
+
+> "I earn more per play than on any other streaming platform. It's not even close."
+
+> "The stream-to-own model means fans who really love my music actually pay for it, while casual listeners can still discover me."
+
+> "I'm not just uploading to a platform. I'm a member of a cooperative that I help govern."
+
+**What listeners say:**
+
+> "I love that my listening actually leads to owning. It feels like my plays mean something."
+
+> "The music discovery is different—it's curated by the community, not an algorithm trying to keep me hooked."
+
+## What They Learned
+
+**Aligned incentives change everything.** When the platform is owned by artists and listeners together, there's no third party extracting value. The platform's success *is* the community's success.
+
+**Stream-to-own respects how people actually listen.** Most songs you hear once or twice. A few become favorites you play hundreds of times. Stream-to-own prices accordingly—cheap discovery, fair compensation for the music you love.
+
+**Building a cooperative is slower than raising venture capital.** Resonate hasn't grown as fast as VC-backed competitors. But it's building something sustainable, owned by its community, not beholden to investors demanding growth at any cost.
+
+**Open source enables trust.** Artists can see exactly how the platform works. There's no black-box algorithm deciding who gets promoted. Transparency is built into the technology.
+
+## What This Means for You
+
+If you're a musician, you don't have to accept streaming economics that pay fractions of pennies. Alternatives exist.
+
+If you're a music lover, you can choose where your money goes. Platforms owned by artists and listeners operate differently than platforms owned by investors.
+
+And if you're part of any creative community—musicians, writers, filmmakers, podcasters—the cooperative model is adaptable. The principles Resonate developed could apply to other forms of creative work.
+
+**Learn more:** [resonate.coop](https://resonate.coop)
+
+---
+
+*Streaming doesn't have to mean artists earn nothing and listeners own nothing. Resonate imagined a different deal—and built it.*

content/articles/resource-sharing-scheduling/index.md

@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ title: Resource Sharing and Scheduling
 date: 2025-12-27
 summary: Tools for coordinating shared resources—tool libraries, equipment pools, community spaces, and volunteer activities. When communities share effectively, everyone has access to more while owning less.
 draft: True
+featureImageCaption: "Photo by [Eric Rothermel](https://unsplash.com/@erothermel) on [Unsplash](https://unsplash.com/photos/FoKO4DpXamQ) (Unsplash License)"
 ---
 
 Most households own tools they use only a few times per year—drills, ladders, camping gear, specialized kitchen equipment. Meanwhile, community spaces sit empty between scheduled events, and skilled community members have expertise they'd gladly share but no easy way to connect with those who need it.

content/articles/riseup-networks/index.md

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+---
+title: "Riseup: Two Decades of Movement Infrastructure"
+description: "How a small collective has provided secure communications for activists since 1999"
+summary: For over two decades, Riseup has quietly kept movements connected and secure. A small collective serving millions of users proves that community-funded infrastructure can outlast any startup.
+date: 2026-01-04
+tags: ["case-study", "activism", "security", "email", "movement infrastructure"]
+categories: ["Movement Infrastructure"]
+weight: 8
+featureImageCaption: "Photo by [John Schnobrich](https://unsplash.com/@johnschno) on [Unsplash](https://unsplash.com/photos/2FPjlAyMQTA) (Unsplash License)"
+---
+
+## What They Needed
+
+In [1999](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riseup), activists organizing around global justice issues faced a problem: the communication tools available to them were controlled by corporations that didn't share their values—and might hand over their data to authorities.
+
+Email providers could read your messages. Chat services logged everything. There was no guarantee that the tools you used to organize wouldn't be used against you.
+
+A small group of technologists and activists asked: what if movements had their own infrastructure?
+
+## What They Built
+
+They created **Riseup**—a technology collective providing secure communication tools for activists and organizations working toward social change.
+
+For over two decades, Riseup has offered:
+- **Email** with strong privacy protections
+- **Mailing lists** for organizing
+- **VPN services** for secure browsing
+- **Chat and collaboration tools**
+- **Educational resources** on digital security
+
+All of it free. All of it funded by donations. All of it run by a small collective committed to movement security.
+
+The infrastructure runs on open source software throughout—not because it's trendy, but because it's the only way to ensure the tools actually do what they claim.
+
+## What Happened
+
+Riseup now serves **millions of users** across the globe.
+
+Their email service alone has [hundreds of thousands of accounts](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riseup). Their mailing lists host discussions for countless organizations. Their VPN protects activists in countries where surveillance is a matter of life and death.
+
+**What users say:**
+
+> "Riseup has been there for every movement I've been part of for twenty years."
+
+> "When we needed to communicate securely, Riseup was the answer. It still is."
+
+> "They've never sold us out. Not once. That's rare."
+
+Riseup has faced legal pressure, government requests, and attempts to compromise their systems. They've navigated all of it while maintaining their commitment to user privacy—including [responding to FBI warrants](https://riseup.net/en/about-us/press/canary-statement) by implementing encrypted storage so they could never again hand over useful data.
+
+## What They Learned
+
+**Sustainability comes from community.** Riseup runs on donations from the people who use it. No venture capital, no advertising, no corporate sponsors with strings attached. The community funds what the community needs.
+
+**Trust is built over decades.** Anyone can claim to protect privacy. Riseup has proven it through twenty-five years of operation, including real tests under pressure. That track record matters.
+
+**Small teams can serve millions.** Riseup operates with a tiny collective—far smaller than you'd expect for their scale. Focused mission, clear values, and efficient infrastructure make it possible.
+
+**Open source is non-negotiable.** For security-critical infrastructure, you can't trust what you can't verify. Open source isn't just a preference—it's a requirement for the kind of trust movements need.
+
+**Infrastructure is political.** The tools movements use shape what movements can do. Owning your infrastructure means your capabilities aren't dependent on corporations or governments that might not share your goals.
+
+## What This Means for You
+
+If you're part of a movement, an organization, or a community that needs secure communications, you have options beyond corporate providers.
+
+Riseup is one model. Others exist:
+- **[Disroot](https://disroot.org/)** offers similar services with a cooperative structure
+- **[Autistici/Inventati](https://www.autistici.org/)** serves activists in Europe
+- **[May First Movement Technology](https://mayfirst.coop/)** operates as a membership organization
+
+The broader lesson: movements can build and maintain their own infrastructure. It takes commitment, resources, and technical capacity—but it's possible, and it's been done.
+
+If your community has the capacity, you might consider what infrastructure you could provide for yourselves and others.
+
+**Learn more:** [riseup.net](https://riseup.net)
+
+---
+
+*For twenty-five years, Riseup has quietly kept movements connected and secure. That's what infrastructure looks like when it's built for people, not profit.*

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+---
+title: "Social.coop: A Social Network Owned by Its Members"
+description: "What happens when the people using a social network are also the people who own it"
+summary: What if social media actually belonged to the people who use it? Social.coop has been proving since 2017 that member-owned, democratically governed social networks aren't just possible—they feel better to use.
+date: 2026-01-04
+tags: ["case-study", "cooperative", "Mastodon", "fediverse", "social media"]
+categories: ["Creative Communities"]
+weight: 2
+featureImageCaption: "Photo by [Annie Spratt](https://unsplash.com/@anniespratt) on [Unsplash](https://unsplash.com/photos/QckxruozjRg) (Unsplash License)"
+---
+
+## What They Needed
+
+In [2017](https://medium.com/open-collective/social-coop-a-cooperative-decentralized-social-network-c10980c9ed91), a group of people were tired of the bargain that social media offered: use our platform for free, and we'll surveil you, manipulate your attention, and sell access to your eyeballs.
+
+They didn't want to quit social media. They wanted to *own* it.
+
+## What They Built
+
+They created **[Social.coop](https://wiki.social.coop/)**—a [Mastodon](https://joinmastodon.org/) instance run as a democratic cooperative.
+
+Mastodon is open source software that works like Twitter, but with a crucial difference: anyone can run their own server, and servers can connect to each other through a protocol called [ActivityPub](https://activitypub.rocks/). There's no central company controlling everything.
+
+Social.coop took this further. They structured their Mastodon server as a formal cooperative:
+
+- **Members pay dues** ([sliding scale, typically £1-10/month](https://join.social.coop/home.html))
+- **Members vote** on how the community is run
+- **Members elect** a steering committee
+- **Decisions are made** through democratic processes using Loomio (another open source tool)
+
+No investors. No ads. No algorithm optimizing for engagement. Just people who want to talk to each other, governing their own space.
+
+## What Happened
+
+Social.coop has been running since 2017—an eternity in social media terms.
+
+**What members say:**
+
+> "I forgot social media could feel good."
+
+> "The timeline shows posts in chronological order. That's it. No algorithm trying to make me angry."
+
+> "When there's a policy question, we actually discuss it and vote. I've never had a say in how a platform treats me before."
+
+The community has navigated real challenges together: moderation policies, server costs, how to handle growth. Each decision was made democratically, with the people affected having a voice.
+
+## What They Learned
+
+**Governance matters as much as technology.** Mastodon is just software. What makes Social.coop different is the cooperative structure wrapped around it. The technology enables community ownership; the governance makes it real.
+
+**Small can be good.** Social.coop isn't trying to compete with Twitter's scale. A few thousand members who actually govern their space together is the point, not a limitation. Human-scale communities can make decisions that planet-scale platforms never could.
+
+**Federation means you're not alone.** Because Mastodon servers connect to each other, Social.coop members can follow and interact with people on thousands of other servers. You get the benefits of a small, well-governed community *and* connection to a broader network.
+
+**Sustainability comes from members, not growth.** With no investors demanding returns, Social.coop doesn't need to grow. It needs to serve its members. That changes everything about how decisions get made.
+
+## What This Means for You
+
+If you're part of a community—a nonprofit, a neighborhood group, a professional association, a movement—you can run your own social space.
+
+The tools are free and open source:
+- **[Mastodon](https://joinmastodon.org/)** for Twitter-like social networking
+- **[Loomio](https://www.loomio.com/)** for democratic decision-making
+- **[Open Collective](https://opencollective.com/)** for transparent finances
+
+You don't have to accept the terms that commercial social media offers. You can write your own.
+
+**Learn more:** [social.coop](https://social.coop)
+
+---
+
+*The question isn't whether social media is good or bad. It's: who owns the space where you gather? Social.coop answered that question differently.*

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+---
+title: "Stocksy: Artists Who Own Their Stock Photo Platform"
+description: "Photographers and videographers built a cooperative where creators keep the majority of their earnings"
+summary: When photographers asked why platforms keep most of what they earn, they built their own. Stocksy has paid over $50 million to artist-members who earn 50-75% of every sale—not the industry-standard pennies.
+date: 2026-01-04
+tags: ["case-study", "cooperative", "artist-owned", "stock photography", "creative commons"]
+categories: ["Creative Communities"]
+weight: 4
+featureImageCaption: "Photo by [Jakob Owens](https://unsplash.com/@jakobowens1) on [Unsplash](https://unsplash.com/photos/CiUR8zISX60) (Unsplash License)"
+---
+
+## What They Needed
+
+Stock photography is a brutal business for creators. The major platforms pay photographers pennies per download—sometimes literally 15-25 cents. The platforms keep most of the revenue. Artists have no say in pricing, licensing terms, or how their work is used.
+
+In [2012](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stocksy_United), a group of photographers and industry veterans—including iStockphoto founder [Bruce Livingstone](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Livingstone)—asked: what if the people who create the images owned the platform that sells them?
+
+## What They Built
+
+They created **[Stocksy United](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stocksy_United)**—a stock photography and video cooperative owned by its contributing artists.
+
+The model flipped the industry standard:
+- **[Artists earn 50-75% of each sale](https://www.start.coop/case-studies/stocksy)** (compared to 15-45% at competitors)
+- **Artists own the company.** Contributors are member-owners with voting rights.
+- **Artists govern together.** Major decisions go to the membership.
+- **Quality over quantity.** Curated collections rather than endless uploads.
+
+Stocksy runs on a mix of custom-built and open source technology, but the real innovation isn't technical—it's structural. The same images, sold through a cooperative, generate dramatically different outcomes for the people who create them.
+
+## What Happened
+
+A decade later, Stocksy has [paid out over **$50 million to artists**](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stocksy_United).
+
+**The numbers:**
+- Over 2,000 artist-members from 65+ countries
+- Millions of images and video clips
+- Used by major brands, publishers, and agencies worldwide
+
+**What artists say:**
+
+> "I earn more from one Stocksy sale than from dozens of sales on other platforms."
+
+> "For the first time, I feel like a partner, not a supplier."
+
+> "When they made a major policy change, I got to vote on it. That's never happened anywhere else I've contributed."
+
+Stocksy proved that a cooperative model could compete in a market dominated by venture-backed giants. Not by being cheaper or having more content—but by being better for the people who create.
+
+## What They Learned
+
+**Fair pay attracts better work.** When artists keep more of their earnings, they contribute their best work. Stocksy's curated library is known for quality precisely because the economics make it worthwhile for talented photographers to participate.
+
+**Ownership changes behavior.** Artist-owners care about the platform's long-term health, not just their next sale. They contribute to community discussions, mentor new members, and think about sustainability.
+
+**Cooperatives can scale.** Stocksy isn't a small hobby project. It's a real business competing in a global market. The cooperative structure didn't limit growth—it enabled a different kind of growth, one that benefits members rather than extracting from them.
+
+**Curation beats volume.** While competitors race to have the most images, Stocksy focused on having the right images. A smaller, better library serves buyers better and pays artists more per image.
+
+## What This Means for You
+
+If you're part of a creative community—photographers, writers, musicians, designers, illustrators—you don't have to accept extractive platform terms.
+
+The cooperative model works for creative work:
+- **[Stocksy](https://www.stocksy.com/)** proved it for photography
+- **[Resonate](https://resonate.coop/)** is building it for music
+- **[Means TV](https://means.tv/)** is exploring it for video
+
+The tools to build platforms are increasingly accessible. The harder part is organizing your community and designing governance that works. But if photographers can do it, so can you.
+
+**Learn more:** [stocksy.com](https://www.stocksy.com)
+
+---
+
+*The question for creative platforms isn't just "how much do artists get paid?" It's "who owns the platform, and whose interests does it serve?" Stocksy answered both questions the same way: the artists.*

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 - /projects/
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-Wild Cloud is the Civil Society Technology Foundation's reference implementation for self-hosted "cloud" infrastructure. This project empowers individuals, communities, and organizations to run their own digital services without dependency on centralized corporate platforms.
+Wild Cloud is your community's digital home—a complete toolkit for running your own cloud services, together.
 
-When released later this year, Wild Cloud will become a complete, accessible solution for operating essential digital services on infrastructure you control. It combines carefully selected open-source components into a cohesive system providing the functionality needed for self-hosted cloud services.
+Think of it as a community center for your digital life. Email, file storage, calendars, chat, video calls, websites—all the tools communities actually need, running on computers you control.
 
-By deploying Wild Cloud, individuals, communities, and organizations can:
+## What Makes It Special
 
-- Host their own cloud services.
-- Maintain full control over their data and communications.
-- Reduce or eliminate dependencies on surveillance-based platforms.
-- Build technical capacity.
-- Participate in a community of practice around independent infrastructure.
+**It's yours.** When you run Wild Cloud, you own it. No one can change the terms, raise the prices, or shut you down. Your community's digital home actually belongs to your community.
 
-The Wild Cloud project aims to start you with a simple self-hosted cloud solution that gets you set up quickly and lets you easily manage your cloud. However, it is a full solution. None of the technical foundations are stripped away. You can go deeper and extend your cloud how you see fit.
+**It's affordable.** Communities running their own infrastructure often spend less than they would on commercial subscriptions—and the money stays local instead of flowing to distant corporations.
 
-## Philosophy
+**It brings people together.** Something unexpected happens when communities build their own technology: neighbors meet each other. Setting up Wild Cloud becomes a reason to learn together, help each other, and build something you're proud of.
 
-Wild Cloud embodies the Civil Society Technology Foundation's [core principles](/about/#principles), which include:
+**It grows with you.** Start small—even a single computer. Add more services and more capacity as your community grows. The same foundation works for a family, a small organization, or a whole neighborhood.
 
-- **Self-determination by Design**: Users control their data and computing environment.
-- **Open Source, Always**: All components are free to use, study, modify, and share.
-- **Self-Hosting Infrastructure**: Direct control reduces dependency and vulnerability.
-- **Transparent Governance**: All components have clear, accountable governance.
-- **Practical Autonomy**: Infrastructure that users can understand and maintain.
+## What You Can Do
 
-By providing this reference implementation, we demonstrate that digital self-determination is not merely theoretical but practically achievable with current technology and modest resources.
+With Wild Cloud, your community can:
 
-## Architecture
+- **Send email** that no one else is reading
+- **Share files** without corporate surveillance  
+- **Coordinate calendars** for your organization
+- **Chat and video call** on your own terms
+- **Host websites** for your community's projects
+- **Collaborate on documents** without sending everything to the cloud
 
-Wild Cloud allows individuals, communities, and organizations (cloud operators) to install and manage a full, standard, Kubernetes cluster made of a few or many computers on their own premises. Kubernetes manages much of the complexity of maintaining the health of your cloud and managing the applications deployed in it. The Wild Cloud project provides a set of reference "stacks" that can be deployed on this Kubernetes cluster. These stacks combine best-of-breed open source software applications to enable productivity, communication, collaboration, and intelligence applications and more.
+And because it's all open source, you can see exactly how it works, change what you need, and share improvements with other communities.
 
-## Check it out!
+## Who It's For
 
-The Wild Cloud project is developed and supported by a community of practitioners.
+Wild Cloud works for all kinds of neighbors:
 
-Learn more at the [Wild Cloud website](https://mywildcloud.org).
+- **Families** who want to share photos and stay connected without Big Tech watching
+- **Small organizations** who need professional tools without enterprise prices
+- **Community groups** who want a digital home that reflects their values
+- **Activists and advocates** who need secure, independent infrastructure
+- **Anyone** who's ever wished they could just run their own version of the services they depend on
+
+## How It Works
+
+Wild Cloud runs on Kubernetes—the same technology that powers much of the internet. But you don't need to be a Kubernetes expert to use it.
+
+We've done the work of selecting, configuring, and integrating the best open source applications into "stacks" that work well together. You get the benefits of professional-grade infrastructure without having to figure it all out yourself.
+
+And when you have questions, you're not alone. A community of practitioners shares knowledge, helps troubleshoot problems, and improves the tools together.
+
+## Getting Started
+
+Wild Cloud is being built by a community of neighbors who believe everyone deserves to own their digital home.
+
+Whether you're technically experienced or just curious, there's a place for you.
+
+{{< button href="https://mywildcloud.org" >}}
+Visit Wild Cloud
+{{< /button >}}
+
+Come see what communities are building together.