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<title>PATIO NEWSLETTER</title>
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<h1>Patio Cooperative Community Newsletter</h1>
<p class="date">October 2022<time datetime="2022-10"></time></p>
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<section class="section-1">
<h2 class="h2-1">📰 Community News</h2>
<p>
East of England Co-op has handed out more than £100,000 though its <strong>Community Cares
Fund</strong> to 26
community
organisations across Norfolk, Suffolk and Essex.
Grants ranged between £1,000 and £5,000, which are expected to directly benefit 4,757 local people, were
distributed via the fund, launched by the retail society in <strong>April 2020</strong>.
</p>
<blockquote>
“As we head into the more difficult winter
months ahead, the mental health fallout from the financial difficulties many are expected to experience will be
sharp. Many of the grants awarded will go directly to supporting vulnerable local people during this difficult
time.”
</blockquote>
</section>
<section class="section-2">
<h2 class="h2-2">📰 Member News</h2>
<img src="member_logo.png" alt="Member Logo" />
<p>
For this alternative collective structure that we can <strong>build together</strong>, we have adopted the
principles of equality,
horizontal hierarchy, collective functioning, consensus based decision making, fair revenue sharing,
decentralization, cooperation and solidarity. In this model, all individuals in the collective will be defined as
workers and owners. Establishing the working order in any sector within a framework of these and similar other
values may seem
unrealistic to some, but examples all over the world that make those who read about say “I wish”, work and are not
few. The change has already begun; <strong>international networks</strong> are being established! Knowledge,
labour, time … When we
combine them with organization and solidarity, a new order will emerge. We
believe that, if we are the producers, we should be making the decisions and sharing the profit.
</p>
</section>
<section class="section-3">
<h2 class="h2-3">🤝 Intercooperation</h2>
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<p>
ICA director general Bruno Roelants provided various examples of <strong>co-operation among co-operatives</strong>
at last week’s
UK Society for Co-operative Studies (UKSCS) annual conference. During his session, on 9 September, he set out the
history of the principle, which was put into action much earlier than its first mention at the 1966 Vienna World
Cooperative Congress. Mr Roelants, who has been leading the International Cooperative Alliance since 2018, said
the establishment of the Rochdale Equitable Pioneers Society in 1844 was soon followed by co-ops in other
countries. Co-operators in Britain and other European countries started attending each other’s national
<strong>co-operative congresses</strong> to exchange ideas. By 1893, preparations for an International
Co-operative Alliance had
already started; the decision to set it up was officially adopted at the 1895 Cooperative Congress in London.
</p>
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<section class="section-4">
<h2 class="h2-4">💻 Featured Tech</h2>
<p>
Historically, in <strong>WordPress</strong> development there have been no satisfactory workflows for including
specific versions
of plugins, themes or the WordPress core as dependencies in a new project.
The result has been inefficiency: developers were forced to download and install these via Zip files or through
the WordPress interface; it was slow to create repeatable builds and best development practice in terms of
dependency management was not being followed.
Feeling the need for better management of dependencies and looking to speed up project development, <strong>
Outlandish
created and open-sourced WPackagist</strong>.
Now specific versions of plugins, themes and core can be declared by developers and included immediately when a
new WordPress project is spun up, all pulled directly from the WordPress repository.
The response from the WordPress community has been significant. WPackagist is now a core part of WordPress
best-practice development, it’s frequently referenced in WordPress tutorials, conferences and WordPress books
and the project on GitHub has numerous contributions by the WordPress community.
Outlandish continue to manage the WPackagist venture and it’s usage speeds the build phases of all our WordPress
client projects.
</p>
<br>
<p><strong>You can check Wpackagist </strong><a href="https://github.com/outlandishideas/wpackagist"
target="_blank">here</a>.
</p>
</section>
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<section class="section-5">
<h2 class="h2-5">✊ Social Tech</h2>
<p>
<strong>NewsSocial</strong>, a multi-stakeholder co-op based in the UK, is aspiring to be the go-to social
platform for
co-operatives, change makers and citizens’ assemblies.
Available on the Apple and Google Play stores, the NewsSocial app enables users to exchange news, ideas and
opinions. They can join different circles and sub circles and access information related to specific topics. The
stories provide an incentive for evidence-based discussions among users, says founder Ali Shakir Al-Assam.
“NewsSocial is built to provide a safe environment for evidence-based rational discussions and debates,” he
adds, “with two main benefits: <strong>positive outcomes and good democratic governance</strong> supporting
sociocracy, and an
ecosystem for inter-co-operation with other users of the platform and community wealth building.
Al-Assam has extensive experience in electronic publishing. In 1982 he set up Diwan-Science and Information
technology, a tech social enterprise adhering to co-op principles that pioneered desktop publishing in Arabic.
He left the company in 1995 to establish KnowledgeView, an enterprise focused on <strong>
cross-media publishing, news
management and editorial sharing systems
</strong>. In 2014 along with other colleagues he set up Mushtarek C.I.C Social
Enterprise to leverage methods and technologies to accelerate socio-economic change in Iraq, his country of
birth. Mushtarek was the first to pilot the NewsSocial platform, and has attracted 500 users to date.
</p>
<br>
<p><strong>You can check NewsSocial </strong><a href="https://www.newssocial.co.uk/" target="_blank">here</a>.
</p>
</section>
</div>
<section class="section-6">
<h2 class="h2-6">🗺️ Coop News</h2>
<p>
The <strong>World Council of Credit Unions (Woccu)</strong> has published its Statistical Report for 2021,
providing data on the
global credit union movement.
Through a global member survey, Woccu found that 81% of respondent credit union associations ranked <strong>
digitisation
at or near the top of their priorities
</strong>. Around 66% identified membership and asset growth as another top priority,
including 83% in Europe, 80% in Africa and 57% in Asia.
Some credit unions were also concerned with regulatory reforms – a priority for 51% and a top priority for
respondent credit union associations in North America (100%) and the Caribbean (80%).
The global credit union sector includes 87,914 credit unions across 118 countries, the report finds, with
393,871,631 members and US$3.48tn in assets.
Membership and assets growth vary across regions. Credit unions in Africa and Latin America saw the most
substantial growth in terms of membership and assets while Europe witnessed a decline in assets and Australia and
New Zealand both saw declining membership. Africa experienced the largest spike in assets – 42% – and Latin
America witnessed the biggest growth in membership at 16%.
</p>
<br>
<p><strong>You can check the full Statistical Report </strong><a
href="https://www.woccu.org/documents/2021_Statistical_Report" target="_blank">here</a>.
</p>
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