DETAIL: Overview
Collaboree - the collaboration marketplace - an online platform where skilled persons looking to work in close collaboration with others can find projects with Purposes they feel aligned with to work on.
In the MVP the marketplace probably has no clients - it is more of a social network with group forming tools within which collaborative approaches to contracts advertised elsewhere are developed.
Later, the platform would add reputation tools and allow clients to bring their projects onto the platform.
The structure/business model would be something like this:
- Platform is a multi-stakeholder mutual - all members have a stake - via membership of secondary mutuals:
- Members
- Groups
- Clients
- Platform Devops
- Adjudicators
- Guardians
- ThinkTank
- Investors
- others?
- All Members pay fees - some are low, some are high, both subscriptions and transaction fees. Clients will pay the largest fees, on the basis of the contracts negotiated on the platform. Groups will pay fees on the basis of income, individual members fees will be nominal subscriptions
User Story - Jazz
Jazz is a graphic / UI designer who has worked for straight companies while doing bits of FOSS work in their spare time, but hasn't seen a way to step away from the corporate work and make a living.
Jazz joins Collaboree on a freemium basis thinking to give it six months and see what happens. They upload a CV and some more personal vision stuff.
A welcome email points Jazz towards a couple of groups that offer services to help new members connect with other members and existing groups, and after browsing some profiles, Jazz chooses to contact a particular member of one of those who seems might understand their situation.
Through a conversation with Sanny on zoom, Jazz gets some recommended contacts for groups that need UI design work for contracts. None of these groups are taking on new members, but are keen to get the work done soon. The pay isn't great for any of them, but it's non-zero, so Jazz takes on the smallest commitment job just to see how it all works.
Two weeks later, the job is done. It wasn't really so different to the day job, but with one difference - no line manager, and a feeling that the crew had your back - all pulling together. Jazz now has a reputation pattern that has some shape to it. They also made some contacts with the crew they worked with, and also one of the ones they didn't, and have been contacted by someone who came via Sanny, who is wanting to form a new crew, and lacks a designer.
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Monday, 13 January 20 15:35:15 Europe/London