At the end of our most recent coop day, we reflected that we hadn’t got around to making anything. Again. We are usually pretty good at making sure we squeeze some creative time into our coop days but the last few have been much more all work and no play. …

Greenpeace wanted to consolidate their technology platforms, and move towards open and collaborative working practices. They chose WordPress to help them adopt better open principles in their workflows and processes. — *This post is co-authored by Ana Silva, Luca Tiralongo, Adrian McShane, and John Bevan. Greenpeace is one of the best-known and largest non-profit organisations in the world, with a huge supporter base and potential for international impact. …

Many months ago, over a coffee in Manchester, Steven Flower of Open Data Services Co-op told me about an idea he’d had to hold their AGM at Wortley Hall. Wortley Hall is a stately home that was bought by a group of workers in the 1950s. They formed a co-op…

At the end of September, Bryan and John travelled down to Winchester School of Art to run a thinkathon for the University of Southampton’s Portus Project. From what the project team had told them, they knew they could help, but weren’t quite sure what to expect…

Conceived back when the “there’s an app for that” chorus heralded a future where our iDevices would solve every conceivable problem, I imagined dotcomrades as a community who might step in to take on a set of issues that appeared to be in Cupertino’s/the Valley’s/the wider tech world’s blindspot. Where…