As a fun thought experiment, I’d like to have a think about how [[Flancia Collective]] is doing stuff in each of the [[Spheres of commoning]].
Also to be thought about: what commons are we actually stewarding? And who are the commoners?
We are creating digital commons of software and a knowledge commons, I guess.
Mike Hales’ handbook on meet.coop would be a good reference point I reckon.
I guess should look at each of the patterns through the lens of how does Flancia Collective do these things? Or how do we do these things in relation to a particular commons? Comes back to defining what actually are our commons.
At present, we do not have any commercial activity associated with the commons that are produced by Flancia.
As of August 2022, [[Flancian]] has been donating and continues to donate around half of his discretionary monthly income to Flancia related projects. This includes Give Directly / Effective Altruism funds donations, but also funding roughly 5 basic incomes directly month to month on 12 or 24-month basis. And some open source projects. We also provide hosting for [[Anagora]], and [[moa]], and would like to provide the same for other ethical services.
So I guess this probably classes as [[collaborative financing]].
As stated by Flancian:
the idea here is for the community to decide how we spend this money ethically :) this is why I started working on the Agora essentially – to find ways to do this kind of work more intelligently/effectively/compassionately together
– https://matrix.to/#/!WhilafaLxfJNoigHCj:matrix.org/$MID6gaTAhKL_6srQef9fMzkb8jrTLwfXQTQBr9cT86s