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Inside the 2024 Catalyst Member Retreat

Feat. our ongoing quest to find a logo for PUDL.

Catalyst is a fully-remote organization with members living all over North America. Our floating cyborg heads are besties, but we’re privy to the power of an analog hang. As such, we host an annual member retreat. This year we chose to meet in Mexico City because it seemed like fun and because it overlapped well with this year’s CSV conf (see Zane’s talk here!)

We booked an Airbnb with a few buffer days so folks could explore the city before getting down to business hashing out Catalyst’s future. We perspired, ate popsicles, and pinched ourselves a few times to make sure we were actually there. Even though we had a lot of work planned for the next few days, we agreed that the retreat would be a success even if all we did was get together.

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Workplace Democracy and Open Source

This year at csv,conf,v8 in Puebla, Mexico I gave a talk on our experience as a democratic worker cooperative creating digital public goods, and why we think co-ops are potentially a good fit for creating public-interest technology. You can watch the recorded talk on YouTube, or read on for a bloggified version of the talk below.