Comments on: Bristol Social Enterprise Summit Consultation http://www.news.software.coop/bristol-social-enterprise-summit-consultation/658/ What software.coop is doing and contemplating Sat, 11 Feb 2012 10:12:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Jeff Mowatt http://www.news.software.coop/bristol-social-enterprise-summit-consultation/658/#comment-846 Jeff Mowatt Mon, 11 May 2009 18:52:42 +0000 http://www.news.software.coop/?p=658#comment-846 Anyway MJ. I may as well make an intro here. We formed as P-CED UK in 2004 as a guarantee company from roots as a software development business which began in 87. We'd started as a Guarantee company deciding that what we wanted to do, for the benefit of many overseas wasn't compatible with a coop mutual model. I note you operate as an LLP and wondered if you knew about opencapital.net and Chris Cook. The guarantee company painted us out of the picture after spending 3 months developing a community broadband proposal, they would only fund bona-fide coops. Two weeks ago we respresented ourselves with an opening plenary at a conference in Sumy Ukraine about Economics for ecology, which seems to have much in common with one held in Oxford just 2 days ago. http://www.p-ced.com/projects/ukraine/sumy/ Jeff http://oxfordhub.org/oxsef . Anyway MJ. I may as well make an intro here. We formed as P-CED UK in 2004 as a guarantee company from roots as a software development business which began in 87.

We’d started as a Guarantee company deciding that what we wanted to do, for the benefit of many overseas wasn’t compatible with a coop mutual model. I note you operate as an LLP and wondered if you knew about opencapital.net and Chris Cook.

The guarantee company painted us out of the picture after spending 3 months developing a community broadband proposal, they would only fund bona-fide coops.

Two weeks ago we respresented ourselves with an opening plenary at a conference in Sumy Ukraine about Economics for ecology, which seems to have much in common with one held in Oxford just 2 days ago.

http://www.p-ced.com/projects/ukraine/sumy/

Jeff

http://oxfordhub.org/oxsef

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]]> By: Jeff Mowatt http://www.news.software.coop/bristol-social-enterprise-summit-consultation/658/#comment-845 Jeff Mowatt Mon, 11 May 2009 16:55:20 +0000 http://www.news.software.coop/?p=658#comment-845 Freaky it is. I can see no Jan Golding. The ultimate control mechanism, perhaps - a forum where only you see your own posts. Nothing would surprise me. Jeff Freaky it is. I can see no Jan Golding.

The ultimate control mechanism, perhaps – a forum where only you see your own posts. Nothing would surprise me.

Jeff

]]> By: MJ Ray http://www.news.software.coop/bristol-social-enterprise-summit-consultation/658/#comment-844 MJ Ray Mon, 11 May 2009 16:37:08 +0000 http://www.news.software.coop/?p=658#comment-844 Jeff - Something freaky is going on. I can't see any discussion under the title “Social Enterprise in the recession” and the most recent discussion update I can see is 1 week ago by Jan Golding. If you email SEC, I expect they'll send you their discussion paper for the summit. Jeff – Something freaky is going on. I can’t see any discussion under the title “Social Enterprise in the recession” and the most recent discussion update I can see is 1 week ago by Jan Golding.

If you email SEC, I expect they’ll send you their discussion paper for the summit.

]]> By: Jeff Mowatt http://www.news.software.coop/bristol-social-enterprise-summit-consultation/658/#comment-843 Jeff Mowatt Mon, 11 May 2009 09:36:39 +0000 http://www.news.software.coop/?p=658#comment-843 MJ It's still there under the title "Social Enterprise in the recession" which I believe the summit is about. I missed the opportunity of joining in when the topic was brought to Bristol unfortunately, and would be interested to know what that brought up. We've been applying social enterprise in Russia and Ukraine over the last decade and what I wanted to relate was the success in Russia which leveraged a microfinance bank and 10,000 small business entities in the city of Tomsk. This is under the projects section on our website link. Jeff MJ It’s still there under the title “Social Enterprise in the recession” which I believe the summit is about. I missed the opportunity of joining in when the topic was brought to Bristol unfortunately, and would be interested to know what that brought up.

We’ve been applying social enterprise in Russia and Ukraine over the last decade and what I wanted to relate was the success in Russia which leveraged a microfinance bank and 10,000 small business entities in the city of Tomsk. This is under the projects section on our website link.

Jeff

]]> By: MJ Ray http://www.news.software.coop/bristol-social-enterprise-summit-consultation/658/#comment-842 MJ Ray Mon, 11 May 2009 09:23:27 +0000 http://www.news.software.coop/?p=658#comment-842 Jeff - can't see your discussion on the SEC forum and the link doesn't work for me. Which one is it? Has it been moderator-hidden? Jeff – can’t see your discussion on the SEC forum and the link doesn’t work for me. Which one is it? Has it been moderator-hidden?

]]> By: Jeff Mowatt http://www.news.software.coop/bristol-social-enterprise-summit-consultation/658/#comment-841 Jeff Mowatt Fri, 08 May 2009 16:56:43 +0000 http://www.news.software.coop/?p=658#comment-841 Hi, I've started this as a discussion on the SEC forum. Please come and join me. http://secx.client.fatbeehive.com/forum/index.php?tid=133 Hi, I’ve started this as a discussion on the SEC forum. Please come and join me.

http://secx.client.fatbeehive.com/forum/index.php?tid=133

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