# The online meeting coop - meet.coop

> Updated: 21jul2021

meet.coop was created for provisioning several kinds of spaces with digital tools, intended as forces of production in making a transformed coop-commons economy:

* **Platform spaces** - Infrastructures of digital tools (toolstacks) aka *commons of running code*
* **Media spaces** -  Curated collections of digital documents and various kinds of tools enabling text-based digital communication, aka *commons of digital media*
* **Venue spaces** - Digitally mediated, facilitated venues for live contribution: assemblies, deliberations and cultural exchanges, aka *commons of live capability* in the coop-commons economy.

All of these spaces are **stewarded as commons**. Provisioning and stewarding of digitally-mediated commons is the basic skillset and intention of meet.coop: our vision and mission.

The original and central digital infrastructure enables distributed **video meetings and events**. It runs on BigBlueButton [BBB](https://meet-coop-1.gitbook.io/handbook-trial/8-terminology/terminology/bbb-big-blue-button), a suite of FLOSS software. \[FLOSS: free-libre open-source software] [FLOSS](https://meet-coop-1.gitbook.io/handbook-trial/8-terminology/terminology/floss)

**Members:** meet.coop has two kinds of members - operational members and user members. We support each community of members with a toolstack designed to facilitate their productive, transformative, skilfully stewarded activity in the coop-commons economy. Formally we are heading for constitution as a coop; currently we operate as a **federation** of several cooperatives in several countries. Our present mode of operation is basically as a workers' coop performing technical and administrative work; in the coming months we are undertaking a process of participatory co-design between operational and user members, to arrive at a Constitution and a regime of working practices that equips us to operate effectively as a **multistakeholder coop**, stewarded across regions and languages.

:smiley: Exciting times! Not before time!! Watch this space. This handbook is the public media workspace for **commons.hour**: our project to develop the multistakeholder practice of meet.coop.

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> Another mode of description, to be integrated . .
>
> * Meet.coop – the Online Meeting Cooperative – provides an online meeting and conferencing platform built as open source software, powered by renewable energy running on cooperatively owned infrastructure. It combines a cooperative multistakeholder model with user members and operational members with a community approach. In a nutshell: a commons-cooperative initiative.
> * Members include many actors - some of them large - from
> * * the social and solidarity economy (care coops, regional food coops, worker coops, housing coops etc),
>   * municipalist initiatives in cities and regions
>   * global NGOs
>   * civil-society movement organisations
>   * activists for privacy, planet, free culture, and&#x20;
>   * free software and open source groups and companies.&#x20;
