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At a glance

Roles

Coop Founder
Coop Member
Researcher
Community Builder
Service Provider
Funder

Services provided

Technology – Developer

Research affiliation

Field of research

democratic communication and building shared power

Community building skills

- communication tools help (from Signal to websites) - help setting up with Open Collective - trying to learn facilitation and transformative justice support skills

Social media

Bio

Benjamin tries to aid struggles for justice and liberty, or try not to do harm in the meantime. He is an organizer of People Who Give a Damn, recognized as an incorporated entity by the IRS and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts charities division. He has also supported several artistic and philanthropic ventures and was a founding, elected director to the Amazing Things Arts Center in Framingham, Massachusetts. A web developer well-established with Drupal and PHP, he has also been enjoying programming projects with Django and Python. His work with Agaric clients has included universities (MIT and Harvard University), corporations (Backupify and GenArts), and not-for-profit organizations (Partners In Health and National Institute for Children's Health Quality). Benjamin lives and works to connect people, ideas, and resources so more awesome things happen.

Co-ops

Founded:

  • Agaric Technology Collective

    type: Cooperative

    location: Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
    organization types: Worker cooperative with a digital platform
    sectors: Community Organizing, Design, Movement Building, Technology: Misc. Technology, Technology: Software Engineering

Member of:

  • Agaric Technology Collective

    type: Cooperative

    location: Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
    organization types: Worker cooperative with a digital platform
    sectors: Community Organizing, Design, Movement Building, Technology: Misc. Technology, Technology: Software Engineering
  • May First Movement Technology

    type: Cooperative

    location: Brooklyn, New York, United States of America
    organization types: Platform cooperative, Non-profit cooperative, Worker cooperative with a digital platform, Digital cooperative, Cooperative platform, Consumer cooperative, Multi-stakeholder cooperative
    sectors: Movement Building, Technology: Internet Service Providers, Technology: Web Service Providers
  • May First Movement Technology

    type: None

    location: Brooklyn, New York, United States of America
    sectors: Movement Building

Clients

benjamin melançon has worked with:

  • Resonate

    type: Cooperative

    location: Berlin, Germany
    organization types: Platform cooperative
    sectors: Music
  • Snowdrift.coop

    type: Cooperative

    organization types: Platform cooperative
    sectors: Finance
  • Snowdrift.coop

    type: None

    location: United States of America
    sectors: Art, Community Organizing, Education, Entertainment, Movement Building, Music, News, Technology: Software Engineering
  • Social.coop

    type: Cooperative

    location: United Kingdom
    organization types: Platform cooperative

Projects

In 2022 Agaric intends to focus on bringing a core principle to life in a big way: Helping all people gain the most power possible over our own lives. Power comes from organization, organization requires communication. To share power requires sharing power over communication, and that is the software and public works infrastructure we are committed to building. <a href="https://drutopia.org/">Drutopia</a> is an ongoing project that fits in with this.

Last updated: December 1, 2021
Date joined: November 30, 2021