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# DAO Culture Reading List

DAO as a collarborative ownership/ governance model. Situating DAOs contextually - culturally and politically.

Culture 
[History of Open Source](https://gitcoin.co/blog/a-brief-history-of-open-source/ )

Collaboration & Commons
[Meditations on Moloch](https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/)




Analytical Tooling 
* Qualitative Data Analysis: [QDA Miner](https://provalisresearch.com/products/qualitative-data-analysis-software/)
* DAO/ Community Analysis Tools: Dune, Omni Analytics

### Commons

Examples: 
The Common Stack


### DisCo
DisCo, short for distributed cooperative

Example: [Disco](https://disco.coop/tag/dao/)


### Platform Co-op

Multi-stakeholder platform cooperative

Platform Cooperativism: Trebor Scholz, 2014
https://www.fastcompany.com/40575728/worker-owned-co-ops-are-coming-for-the-digital-gig-economy

### Virtual Co-op
Schneider
https://www.colorado.edu/lab/medlab/sites/default/files/attached-files/virtualcoop.pdf

### Employee Ownership

Kelsoism: Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP)
“financing tools for democratizing capitalism”... "to finance economic growth whileenabling widespread capital ownership. In several cases, the capital ownerswould have a participatory relationship with their asset"

digital Kelsoism, Schneider
digital Kelsoism,” I refer to the ever-greater digitizationof economic and social life.

Employee Stock Ownership
Nathan Schneider, 2020. [Digital Kelsoism: Employee Stock Ownership as a Pattern for the Online Economy](https://osf.io/v7fe2?view_only=2ffd750b4ba54001beb5a459d61faff0)

Examples:
[Owners to Owners](https://www.owner2owners.nyc/about): An Initiative of Employee Ownership NYC 

### Steward Ownership

Example: 
[Conference on Steward Ownership](https://ve22.org/?lang=en)


### Digital Political Economy

Zuckerburg, 2017. [Building Global Community](https://www.facebook.com/notes/3707971095882612/) 

### Exit to Community

Exit to Community: Nathan Schneider, Danny Spitzberg, etc.
The concept is being spearheaded by [Zebras Unite](https://zebrasunite.coop/) and in partnership with [University of Colorado Boulder’s Media Enterprise Design Lab](https://www.colorado.edu/lab/medlab/exit-to-community#:~:text=Exit%20to%20Community%20(E2C)%20is,by%20their%20community%20of%20stakeholders%3F).

[Exit to Community: A New Model for Organizations](https://blog.fracturedatlas.org/exit-to-community)
* "It’s simplest to think of as an alternative to growth in a startup context."
* "Exit to Community provides one alternative path for growth, longevity, and success for new organizations or startups. It gives us a way of thinking about structures that encourage growth and ambition, while still being designed to benefit the community."

[Startups Need a New Option: Exit to Community](https://hackernoon.com/startups-need-a-new-option-exit-to-community-ig12v2z73) (Hackernoon, Schneider)

[Exit To Community](https://www.noemamag.com/exit-to-community/): Grafting the lessons of old cooperatively owned companies to the online economy.(Noema, Schneider)

Examples:
Open Collective


Pia Mancini, 2021: [Pathways for Open Collective’s “Exit to Community”](https://blog.opencollective.com/exit-to-community-part-2/)

Zebra United
