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Added link to May First/People Link #12

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Add a link to May First/People Link — I understand that they are a co-operative but this isn't so clear from their web site which mostly emphasises that they are a progressive membership based organisation. Their membership form does make it clear that the Mexican organisation is a Coop.

They have a list of services on their open Trac site.

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mlncn commented Feb 19, 2018

MFPL is a democratic membership organization, with one-organization, one vote election of the leadership committee. I would say they are a cooperative but the US-based portion has not self-identified as a cooperative.

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hng commented Mar 29, 2018

There a quite a few non-profit, partly volunteer run hosting providers like May First. I think this is something a bit different then worker owned tech coops. Also this list wants to emphasize tech coops that to software development/consulting. I am giving this PR a label until I have decided who to go on with this issue, maybe another list for hosting coops?

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I think this can now be merged?

https://mayfirst.coop/en/post/2019/-q-content-may-first-now-coop/

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mlncn commented Jun 18, 2019

To the point that this is a list of worker-owned tech cooperatives a separate list, section, or at least an asterisk may make sense— because the majority of May First's formal cooperative control is given to the members who receive services. Staff get 20% of the overall board and it is worker self-managed, so in the sense that https://blackstar.coop/cooperate/ is welcomed as a worker cooperative at USFWC events (as a hybrid that's owned by consumer members but has worker self-management). And as hng pointed out the types of services are different also.

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