man this sounds so cool but also what a fucking pain in the ass: https://blog.emma.coop/andy/forming-a-creative-code-and-technology-co-operative
The Blog of the EMMA Cooperative Blogs Drafts July 1, 2022 This is adapted from a talk given by Ramsey and Andy at NYU Game Center on April 28th, 2022. Thanks to Jane Friedhoff for helping us adapt it to a blog post. What is a technology co-op? Why would you want to form one? And how on earth do you go about doing it? In this post, we’ll introduce you to the core of EMMA : how we created it, how we operate it as a group, and what needs it’s helping us fill that non-co-op work didn’t give us. But first, a few disclaimers: Every co-op is different and special, and we can only speak to our own experiences. Your mileage may vary! We can only tell you what we’ve done, and the particular path we took to get here. Think of this not as a guide, but rather an example. EMMA is a service co-op, not a product co-op. This is an important distinction: a product-oriented co-op (sa...