TIL about CoopCycle, a federation of worker-owned bike delivery cooperatives, which also maintains an open-source logistics platform - jlai.lu
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I couldn’t find a good and recent summary page anywhere, so this is my attempt to put something together. They started around a decade ago, and they are currently still very active. While the website is a bit out of date in some areas, and the twitter / linkedin doesn’t have frequent updates, their Facebook page [https://www.facebook.com/coopcycle/] has had multiple posts in the past few days (related to their annual meetings), and their GitHub repos [https://github.com/coopcycle/coopcycle-app] have constant activity as well. > From October 15th to 18th, the international courier community and federation will gather in Pamplona-Iruña, hosted by our local member Ziclo-P. You can find info on their copyleft license here: https://coopcycle.org/en/coopyleft/ [https://coopcycle.org/en/coopyleft/] > The Coopyleft license restricts the commercial use of the software to cooperatives, associations, or limited-profit organizations. Please refer to Article 3 of the license for detailed conditions. [source [https://es.linkedin.com/posts/coopcycle_coopcycle-bikelogistics-platformcoop-activity-7512851677394231297-tUN4]] > The license prevents non-cooperative companies from appropriating the code and turning it into a profit-driven business. You can see the map of cooperatives here: https://coopcycle.org/en/cooperatives/ [https://coopcycle.org/en/cooperatives/] While their website doesn’t mention a Fediverse presence, they do seem to think positively of Fediverse related projects. While I’m personally not local (and swamped with other projects already), I think it could be worth reaching out to them and getting them on here. Their Facebook posts don’t see much interaction, and I think they would get along well on the Fediverse. Here is what they mention about “Are there other similar projects” > Yes. CoopCycle is part of a broader movement of solidarity-based digital alternatives. Projects like Framasoft, Mobilizon, Cascade, and Open Food France share the same philosophy. Some more reading: - 2026 - https://policyreview.info/articles/analysis/grey-zones-bike-delivery-platform [https://policyreview.info/articles/analysis/grey-zones-bike-delivery-platform] - 2024: https://platform.coop/blog/coopcycle-navigating-political-democratic-and-economic-realities/ [https://platform.coop/blog/coopcycle-navigating-political-democratic-and-economic-realities/] - 2020 - https://www.lowimpact.org/posts/coopcycle-federation-bicycle-courier-co-op-every-town/ [https://www.lowimpact.org/posts/coopcycle-federation-bicycle-courier-co-op-every-town/] - Please feel free to share this to a relevant French community, such as those on https://jlai.lu/ [https://jlai.lu/]

Bonjour :)

J’ai lu des articles à propos de coopcycle.org et je pense qu’ils vont adorer Lemmy/Fediverse:

Quelle est la meilleure instance pour ça, jlai.lu? Si vous les connaissez, peut-être pouvez-vous les inviter?

Hello :)

I read some articles about coopcycle.org, and I think they would get along great here on Lemmy / the Fediverse:

What would be the best instance for this, maybe jlai.lu? If you happen to know them, feel free to send them an invite. I’m in Canada, and I think it would be better if this was organized by someone local / in France

  • SnoopyEnglish
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    12 days ago

    Hello and welcome to the fediverse.

    I would recommend piefed over lemmy because they can reach and connect to mastodon. And there is better moderation tools, tag, hashtag.

    There is https://tarte.nuage-libre.fr/ it is a steady rock solid server.

    We are building a piefed instance with a better and shorter domain : https://forumlib.re/

    The same admin team will manage it but it takes time.

    That’s the first part.

    The second part is that we don’t know your needs : communication ? Promo ? Social network ? Forum ? Microblog ? Teamwork ? Collaborative app ?

    NB : We answered in english because we don’t know which language you are the most fluent with.

    • new_otters_raft@piefed.caOPEnglish
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      11 days ago

      Hello!

      I’m sorry for the confusion. I’m not actually with coopcycle.org, I’m one of the admins on lemmy.ca . I made this post to ask if it would be ok to invite them and see if someone here would like to take this on. I’m in Canada and French is not my first language, so it didn’t seem like my place to talk to them :) I’m happy to do it, but I figured I should at least speak to your team first since I would be referring them to one of your instances.

      I agree with you that Piefed makes more sense for their use case. I was thinking that they could set up a community here instead of their Facebook page, which doesn’t seem to get that much engagement anyway.

      Language wise, I am more fluent in English. I’m sorry for the poor French, I didn’t get a lot of practice after learning French in high school.

      • Snoopy@piefed.socialEnglish
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        9 days ago

        Your french was very good :)

        I’m not that fluent in english either as i have trouble to understand the tone and the sense. 😅

        I was thinking that they could set up a community here instead of their Facebook page, which doesn’t seem to get that much engagement anyway.

        Thank i understand better your point. Imho Piefed/mbin are better for this because they are connected to mastodon. And mastodon has far more user than the threadiverse.

        For now i’m busy. but if you contact them and they want to create community they should reach us on meta because we will lock community creation due to the upcoming election.