Hello everyone,

I had a call yesterday with a group of Spanish people. They contacted me to talk about their ideas and possibilities of cooperation.

Their plan is to found a cooperation, where artists can become members. Then they want to built a platform where those artists can upload their music while customers can stream the collection with paying a monthly fee. You probably know the idea from this one huge, bad company?!

So they got in touch with me since they had the idea to make all of this based on Funkwhale. Basically they want to take the Backend and built their apps and custom Frontend around. They asked for help with estimations, deployments and implementations.

I told them we are not able to be contracted as a collective, but I can ask around if someone wants to get hired or contracted by them. So if someone is interested, I can connect you. Just let me know. I'll update this post as soon as I hear something from them again.

14 days later

I previously stated this group of people is related to a matrix channel which is full of hate speech. After some E-Mails it turns out this was a wrong assumption by me. We are currently having mail contact to try to solve this, I am really sorry this happened and I am trying to fix it.

4 months later

Were there any more developments with this?

From an artist perspective I'm really curious whether they managed to get the project off the ground and how difficult it'd be. Would you be okay to share the name of the cooperative or group so I can follow them and find out more?

  • gcrk replied to this.
    12 days later

    nerveplant Thanks for getting back to this. They messages me a while ago that they decided to pick another solution as technical base for their platform. Nevertheless they seem to be working on this, but I have no pointers for you right now.