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Cake day: June 19th, 2023

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  • Feelings are never wrong and I’m happy to read your feedback. The co-op is meant to be workers controlled and owned, so I think socialist connotation is not off. One of the early versions was like this:

    Version of the logo with 12 stars behind the cloud. Cloud has a black outline. The word "co-op" is inside the cloud, in black letters.

    I think it looks less professional but that might be subjective. Also, I’m not a real artist, so maybe someone can come up with a better thing. The big issue though is that it doesn’t scale well. We need a logo that can be used as e.g. a browser favicon without much modifications. With the current version it’s easy if we just remove the letters and center the shapes. Like this:

    A 32x32 version of the blue logo

    I just exported it from Inkscape with low DPI, so it looks a bit blurry. Probably the sharpness could be improved, but I don’t want to invest more effort before I get some feedback on the general design. The point is, that this simple design can be presented as a tiny icon and still be recognized.




  • Thanks! Interesting take about pushing the parts away. I didn’t consider it. I guess this reading demonstrates the ambiguity of cloud. The tech of course can be (and often is) very useful. But at the moment cloud, mostly controlled by untrustworthy entities, seems more like a risk then a promise. So I saw it more as the European star breaking through cloud, like the sun often does, leading to better weather ahead. It also leads to a deeper question - are we more “anti American cloud” or “pro European cloud”. We will have to decide together. But you are right this design might evoke negative feelings of disconnectedness. Food for thought.



  • In the first phase I’m going to host us in my social club. TLSC is a private, self hosted and invitation-only instance of Discourse. It’s an experiment in creating something like a private LinkedIn, so should fit the purpose. I want to avoid the overhead of running another service so this can be our forum, unless people bring something better.

    Actually my wife and I do self-host a Matrix server too. We use it to chat and call (mostly sharing links and grocery lists), but I don’t think it’s a great platform for organizing communities. Like other similar products it tends to get chaotic and noisy, and it’s very difficult to find what was said even few hours before. Good for real time communication, but not so much for thoughtful work or organizing information.