Here we outline the notion of community space, and its significance.
Broadly, community space is the space of all what all members of the coop-commons are 'up to'. In meet.coop we saw our community, and thus our potential membership base to be served with onlikne meeting services, as having three sectors: - A coop sector - Coops provisioning and (mainly) coops using digital infrastructures and tools - A solidarity sector - Movement organisations in civil society, depending on digital infrastructures and tools - A toolstack sector - Developers of FLOSS software and admins of platforms running FLOSS software.
# Movement beyond fragments Seeing the diversity of this, one of the central intentions of the meet.coop project was to facilitate moving 'beyond the fragments' both within and across the sectors. In principle, infrastructure(ing) can be a powerful way of enabling movement beyond fragments.
The community space for the Democratic Tech Foundation is much more complex. In addition to the sectors we wanted to serve in meet.coop, there also are: - municipalities (cities) - regions (bioregions) - gift-funders - collaborator-members of the commons: other commons which contribute some of the foundations 'in kind' - for example, platform services.
Every fundable project for the Foundation/Fund is going to need to provide a pretty coherent description of its Community layer and its sectors. > Community layer - a **commons of knowing and capability** ('labour power') where stuff is communicated and organised, learned and witnessed, and where people form formations and organisations to meet common needs.
In community, support for formación 'beyond the fragments' is the aim of the Federation. A strong proposition on formación in the community layer will do a lot to make a project proposal fundable.