Here we give an outline description of `meet.coop`
`meet.coop` was created for provisioning several kinds of spaces with digital tools, intended as forces of production in making a transformed coop-commons economy:
- **Platform spaces** - Infrastructures of digital tools (toolstacks) aka *commons of running code*. At the heart of this are FLOSS tools for video meetings - Big Blue Button and Greenlight.
- **Media spaces** - Curated collections of digital documents and various kinds of tools enabling text-based digital communication, aka *commons of digital media*. This includes, for example, the meet.coop Forum
- **Venue spaces** - Digitally mediated, facilitated venues for live, mutualised contribution: assemblies, deliberations and cultural exchanges, aka *commons of live capability* in the coop-commons economy.
All of these spaces are **stewarded as commons**. Provisioning and stewarding of digitally-mediated commons is the basic skillset and intention of meet.coop: our vision and mission.
The original and central digital infrastructure enables distributed **video meetings and events**. It runs on BigBlueButton BBB, a suite of FLOSS software. FLOSS
**Members:** meet.coop has two kinds of members - **operational members** and **user members**. We support each community of members with a toolstack designed to facilitate their productive, transformative, skilfully stewarded activity in the coop-commons economy. Formally we are heading for constitution as a coop; currently we operate as a **federation** of several cooperatives in several countries.
Our present mode of operation is basically as a workers' coop performing technical and administrative work; in the coming months we are undertaking a process of participatory co-design between operational and user members, to arrive at a Constitution and a regime of working practices that equips us to operate effectively as a **multistakeholder coop**, stewarded across regions and languages.
😃 Exciting times! Not before time!! Watch this space. This handbook is the public media workspace for **commons.hour**: our project to develop the multistakeholder practice of meet.coop.