SAMOURAÏ COOPBlog
Working notes, not thought leadership.
Research from the Governance Research Lab and notes from the coop. Long, sourced, and occasionally about the things that went wrong.
Greffon: an open-source, self-hosted deployment platformA technical tour of Greffon: its control plane, workers and built-in certificate authority — the open-source middle ground between PaaS and Kubernetes.Crypto (Anti-)Commons? Controversies Surrounding the Status of Bitcoin and Public Blockchains as Digital Commons—Part 1Can Bitcoin and public blockchains be called digital commons? Part 1 maps the controversy and asks which idea of the commons the question invokes.Cooperative & Web3 Glossary (V.0.1)A living glossary translating between cooperative and Web3 vocabularies — for coops meeting the DAO, and Web3 communities meeting the SCOP.Decentralized governance or the classic model: a comparisonGovernance models compared: decentralized (DAO, blockchain) versus classic. Advantages, limits, costs and use cases for creative projects.
Checklist: preparing a professional video productionA practical six-step guide to preparing a professional video production: goals, script, budget, gear, the shoot and post-production.Decentralized protocols: a complete guide for artistsNFTs, smart contracts, DAOs and decentralized storage: how artists can monetize, protect and govern their work autonomously.
Financing an independent film: 5 alternative routesFive Web3 routes to finance an independent film while keeping artistic control and stepping around the traditional circuits.
Motion design vs traditional animation: which to choose?A clear comparison of motion design and traditional animation: uses, costs, tools, and how to choose by goal, budget and audience."Insight Report" Series: External Interview #1 — Phil H.First of an interview series on distributed governance — opening with a recording that failed, and what that reveals about fieldwork infrastructure.Presentation — Maël Rolland x Samouraï CoopMaël Rolland, socio-economist and EHESS doctor, joins Samouraï Coop as independent researcher in residence at the Governance Research Lab.
Samouraï Governance Research Lab: A New Milestone for the CooperativeSamouraï Coop opens a research lab on cooperative and distributed governance — how eight years of building led here, and what it sets out to document.
Checklist: preparing a professional video productionA practical six-step guide to preparing a professional video production: goals, script, budget, gear, the shoot and post-production.Decentralized protocols: a complete guide for artistsNFTs, smart contracts, DAOs and decentralized storage: how artists can monetize, protect and govern their work autonomously.Financing an independent film: 5 alternative routesFive Web3 routes to finance an independent film while keeping artistic control and stepping around the traditional circuits.Motion design vs traditional animation: which to choose?A clear comparison of motion design and traditional animation: uses, costs, tools, and how to choose by goal, budget and audience."Insight Report" Series: External Interview #1 — Phil H.First of an interview series on distributed governance — opening with a recording that failed, and what that reveals about fieldwork infrastructure.Presentation — Maël Rolland x Samouraï CoopMaël Rolland, socio-economist and EHESS doctor, joins Samouraï Coop as independent researcher in residence at the Governance Research Lab.Samouraï Governance Research Lab: A New Milestone for the CooperativeSamouraï Coop opens a research lab on cooperative and distributed governance — how eight years of building led here, and what it sets out to document.Older posts rescued from the previous site keep their original publication dates and link back to their source.