Pathways to Sustainable Self-Governance

Mandela Marketplace: Pathways to Sustainable Self-Governance

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Oct 182010

At the USSF2010 Mandela Marketplace‘s Quinton Sankofa and James Berk of Mandela Foods Cooperative presented to a workshop hosted by Permaculture.coop called Pathways to Sustainable Self-Governance. Other presenters included Gavin Raders of Planting Justice and Mike Leung of Worker Cooperative Credit Union.

Organised and facilitated by Kirstie Stramler, filmed by Patrick O’Conner for permaculture.coop


History of West Oakland and background for Mandela Marketplace & Mandela Foods Coop
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Quinton Sankofa explains the history of West Oakland and the context for the Mandela Marketplace.

West Oakland Today and the context of Mandela Marketplace
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James Berk and Quinton Sankofa describe West Oakland today and the context for the Mandela Foods Cooperative and Mandela Marketplace.

Challenges for Mandela Marketplace & Mandela Foods Coop
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James Berk and Quinton Sankofa describe CHALLENGES of the Mandela Foods Cooperative and Mandela Marketplace.

Community-led and controlled development
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Quinton Sankofa explains the Mandela Marketplace alternative for community-led or community controlled development

Successes
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James Berk and Quinton Sankofa describe SUCCESSES of the Mandela Foods Cooperative and Mandela Marketplace.

Financing Worker Cooperatives
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Quiton Sankofa describes some of the realities of financing worker cooperatives, Mike Leung of the pre-start Worker Cooperative Credit Union also describes the national situation and the exception Arizmendi Association of Coops

Evolution of Industrial Ecology Wiki

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Oct 092010

Number of edits per user – This strongly fits the 90-9-1 Theory.

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This states that 90 percent of people may read or just try it once. About 9 percent contribute from time to time. Most of the actual contributions come from the remaining 1% who contribute very often. The top contributor has made several thousand edits, and was also the same person who initiated the use of the wiki in the group. Many of the other top contributors are PhD students who have used the wiki over several years.

This is a visualization of the evolution of wiki.tudelft.nl from the very beginning, 5 years ago. Each node is a page, links are connections between pages. Graph is laid out using a force-directed algorithm, where the edges (links between pages) pull the nodes (pages) together, and the nodes (pages) repel each other. This means that the more tightly connected nodes will be closer together than weakly connected ones, which are pushed to the outside. The entire thing is created using Prefuse (http://prefuse.org), wiki is using the TWiki engine (http://twiki.org). The soundtrack is from DJ Cary’s Eastern Grooves compilation from Magnatune.com. More info about this can be found at http://wiki.tudelft.nl/bin/view/Main/WikiGrowthOverTime

Source: Chris Davies, Industrial Ecology Wiki

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