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_people/Andi-Argast.md

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-Andi is a strategist, researcher, and facilitator. She is currently a probationary member of Hypha Worker Co-operative.
+Andi is a strategist, researcher and facilitator. Her current work weaves together the disparate threads of art, culture, data, and decentralized technologies.
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-Andi has consistently worked at the intersection of digital technologies and the social good sector, with design, strategy, and insight experience at Girl Guides of Canada, the Framework Foundation, and a variety of arts organizations. 
+Andi has applied her design, strategy, and insight experience at Girl Guides of Canada, the Framework Foundation, and a variety of arts organizations. She believes that digital and data literacy are key to an engaged and functioning society, and was a core member of the Toronto Node of the Open Data Institute. 
 
-Andi believes that digital and data literacy are key  to an engaged and functioning society, and was a core member of the Toronto Node of the Open Data Institute. A certified practitioner of human-centered design, Andi also holds a Master of Information from the University of Toronto, and a Bachelor of Journalism from Carleton University. 
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+A certified practitioner of human-centered design, Andi also holds a Master of Information from the University of Toronto, and a Bachelor of Journalism from Carleton University. She is a member of Hypha Worker Co-operative.
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_people/Cole-Anthony-Capilongo.md

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-Cole Anthony Capilongo is a software developer interested in decentralization, networking, and protocols. As a contractor for Hypha, he works with Starling Lab to improve digital authenticity, and on the Cosmos project to develop infrastructure tooling. In the past he has authored various open source projects, and worked on building a mesh network in Toronto. 
+Cole Anthony Capilongo is a software developer interested in decentralization, networking, and protocols. 
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+As a contractor for Hypha, he works with Starling Lab to improve digital authenticity, and on the Cosmos project to develop infrastructure tooling. In the past he has authored various open source projects, and worked on building a mesh network in Toronto. 
 

_people/Dante-Armando-Sanchez.md

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-Dante is an engineer and probationary member of Hypha Worker Co-operative, where he is dedicated to planning and building tooling for peer-to-peer networks.
+Dante is an engineer with a background in mechanical and software development. He is currently focused on planning and building tooling for peer-to-peer networks.
 
-Dante has a background in mechanical engineering and has worked in the development of geophysics, ultrasound, and mass spectrometry instruments. He is interested in building community-owned infrastructure and spreading technical literacy.
+Dante has experience in research, development, and production for geophysics, ultrasound, and mass spectrometry instrumentation. He is interested in building community-owned infrastructure and spreading technical literacy.
 

_people/Denise-Yu.md

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+name: 'Denise Yu'
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+Denise is a software engineer for now, but at other times, an engineering manager, product manager, and freelance illustrator. 
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+She speaks extensively at conferences all over the world on a wide range of interests, ranging from psychological safety on teams to distributed computing. She will travel anywhere for food. You can see her writing, speaking, and art portfolio at [deniseyu.io](https://deniseyu.io/).
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_people/Lexa-Michaelides.md

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-Lexa is a fledgling anarchist with an interest in how independent people come together to self-govern and support one another on the basis of mutual trust and respect for autonomy. Both in work and in life Lexa tries to find equilibrium between structure and chaos.
+Lexa is a fledgling anarchist with two degrees in management engineering and sciences from the University of Waterloo. 
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+Her academic background combines software, operations research, and organizational design, while her personal interests include self-organizing teams, strong human relationships, and governance. As a lover of both improv and perfectly-executed plans, Lexa is constantly trying to find the equilibrium between structure and chaos.

_people/Mauve.md

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 Mauve is a decentralized software consultant who has been working on everything from setting up local mesh networks, local-first file transfer apps, a decentralized web browser, and to a peer to peer virtual reality.

_people/Rachael.md

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+name: 'Rachael Ashe'
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+Rachael is a maker-artist-craftsperson, curator, operations coordinator, and community events planner. 
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+She is currently a probationary member of Hypha. Rachael is a graduate of the Creative Photography program at Humber College, and is a multidisciplinary artist self-taught in papercraft and textiles. She’s a weirdo type of artist who loves improving processes, dealing with finance and bookkeeping, and getting things organized. You can view her art portfolio at [rachaelashe.com](https://rachaelashe.com/)

_posts/2022-08-11-staking-identities.md

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 To examine the relationship between DAOs and co-ops, I use the International Cooperative Association (ICA)’s [seven Cooperative Principles](https://www.ica.coop/en/cooperatives/cooperative-identity)[^4] as a framework; this is largely because DAOs have myriad definitions and are still emerging as an organizing structure, while there is considerable social and legal agreement about what constitutes a co-op. It’s also important to note that there are many organizing assemblages that straddle or blur the DAO/co-op dichotomy, including collectives and DisCOs; the point here is not to get into the semantics of labeling organizations, but to look at some of the practical challenges of blending the DAO/coop models.
 
-The ICA, a global stewarding body for the co-operative movement, offers a Statement on Cooperative Identity that includes a co-operative definition, values, and seven principles; the latter of which I’ll explore in detail below. [According to the ICA](https://www.ica.coop/en/cooperatives/cooperative-identity), a cooperative is defined as “an ‘autonomous association of persons united voluntarily to meet their common economic, social and cultural needs and aspirations through a jointly owned and democratically-controlled enterprise.’”[^5] This widely accepted definition of a co-op stands in contrast to the numerous definitions of DAOs, which vary in their specificity. Starting with a technical framing, the [Coalition of Automated Legal Applications](https://blockchaingov.eu/model-law-for-daos/) (COALA) posits that DAO “refers to smart contracts (i.e. blockchain-based software) deployed on a public Permissionless Blockchain, which implements specific decision-making or governance rules enabling a multiplicity of actors to coordinate themselves in a decentralized fashion. These governance rules must be technically, although not necessarily operationally, decentralized.”[^6] Elsewhere, [Kelsie Nabbin suggests](https://platform.coop/blog/dao-design-patterns/) that DAOs are “relational, co-constructive entities, composed of human and machine components, functioning towards a shared objective.”[^7] And a still more concise explanation of DAOs is that they are simply “an incentivised coordination tool for communities.”[^8] These DAO definitions lack agreement in a number of respects, but most centre ‘permissionless’ technology, rather than people; this can be contrasted to the ICA definition, which clearly puts ‘persons’ at the heart of a cooperative enterprise. 
+The ICA, a global stewarding body for the co-operative movement, offers a Statement on Cooperative Identity that includes a co-operative definition, values, and seven principles; the latter of which I’ll explore in detail below. [According to the ICA](https://www.ica.coop/en/cooperatives/cooperative-identity), a cooperative is defined as “an ‘autonomous association of persons united voluntarily to meet their common economic, social and cultural needs and aspirations through a jointly owned and democratically-controlled enterprise.’”[^5] This widely accepted definition of a co-op stands in contrast to the numerous definitions of DAOs, which vary in their specificity. Starting with a technical framing, the [Coalition of Automated Legal Applications](https://blockchaingov.eu/model-law-for-daos/) (COALA) posits that DAO “refers to smart contracts (i.e. blockchain-based software) deployed on a public Permissionless Blockchain, which implements specific decision-making or governance rules enabling a multiplicity of actors to coordinate themselves in a decentralized fashion. These governance rules must be technically, although not necessarily operationally, decentralized.”[^6] Elsewhere, [Kelsie Nabben suggests](https://platform.coop/blog/dao-design-patterns/) that DAOs are “relational, co-constructive entities, composed of human and machine components, functioning towards a shared objective.”[^7] And a still more concise explanation of DAOs is that they are simply “an incentivised coordination tool for communities.”[^8] These DAO definitions lack agreement in a number of respects, but most centre ‘permissionless’ technology, rather than people; this can be contrasted to the ICA definition, which clearly puts ‘persons’ at the heart of a cooperative enterprise. 
 
 Working in conjunction with their membership, the ICA offers [seven cooperative principles](https://www.ica.coop/en/cooperatives/cooperative-identity) as “guidelines by which cooperatives put their values into practice.”[^9] In the following sections, I note the principle, and then consider whether a prototypical DAO could in practice centre this principle in its work. Given the multitude of DAOs that exist, this article-as-a-thought exercise runs to generalizations; there are exceptions to every rule.
 
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 [^16]: Buterin, Vitalik. “Soulbound.” Vitalik.ca, January 26, 2022. https://vitalik.ca/general/2022/01/26/soulbound.html.
 
-[^12]: “Welcome to 1Hive.” Accessed June 28, 2022. https://wiki.1hive.org/.
+[^12]: “Welcome to 1Hive.” Accessed June 28, 2022. https://wiki.1hive.org/.