There was another big co-op related launch today: Design Machines launched the website for Assembly, “governance software that makes it easy to start, run, and connect democratic organizations”
They are also going to build Assembly as a co-op. It’s not connected to atproto (yet!).
Assembly is meant to be run “federated” with individual installs having added “fixtures” to add customizations and features.
“configured around your membership, your roles, the way you make decisions, and even your brand. It runs under your name and on your domain, not ours.”
Assembly Chat fixture: “Conversations look like a forum thread but flow in real time like a chat app. No reaching for that refresh button. Features like auto-saving, formatting, and image uploading make it easy to jump in and out of the flow without missing a beat.”
I’m going to try and arrange a public demo with the Design Machines folks so people interested in software for co-ops — and how to run a co-op that builds software! — can learn more.
Leave a reply if you’re interested.
 