Recruitment shuffle-up

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+layout: post
+title: Wireless Battle of the Mesh - Building Community Networks for Fun and Non-Profit
+description: Autonomic members are aiming to attend. Here is our public endorsement!
+image: bmesh.png
+category: community, wireless, event
+date: 2022-07-11
+---
+
+Autonomic Co-op supports this year's "Wireless Battle of the Mesh - Building
+Community Networks for Fun and Non-Profit".
+
+The event aims to bring together people from across the globe who are
+interested in community networks, including wireless mesh network technologies,
+fiber infrastructure, Do-It-Yourself Internet Access Providers, and more
+generally how to create and maintain a thriving community of people involved in
+building their own networks.
+
+We envision 4 days of expert presentations, practical workshops, hacking
+sessions, and fruitful discussions: whether you are a mesh networking
+enthusiast, community networking activist, protocol developer, or have an
+interest in networking in general, come and join the event!
+
+The Battlemesh is free of charge and open for all.
+
+This year, the event will take place from Monday 19th to Wednesday 22nd
+of September, 2022 in Rome, Italy! It will be followed by the RomHack
+Camp on September 23-25, also in Rome.
+
+Check out more information [here](https://www.battlemesh.org/BattleMeshV14).
+
+We are writing this post as part of a public endorsement and support for
+"Wireless Battle of the Mesh - Building Community Networks for Fun and
+Non-Profit" not only for the efforts made by its community to advance the field
+of wireless mesh networking and foster the development of grass-roots community
+networks, but for their contribution to digital freedom rights movement,
+empowerment of peoples tech/net/media competency and a free and open civil
+society.
+
+We aim to support the event by:
+
+- helping to promote it
+- making it possible for our members to join the event
+
+See you there hopefully!

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+layout: post
+title: Come join the good ship Autonomic!
+description: We (were) hiring again!
+category: decision making, democracy, meta
+date: 2022-10-10
+---
+
+> As of 8 November 2022, this round of recruitment is now closed. Thanks to those who got in touch, and stay tuned for the next time we're looking for new members.
+
+## Background
+
+Autonomic is a worker-owned co-operative of queer comrade hackers dedicated to using technology to empower people making a positive difference in the world. Since 2017, we’ve been successfully delivering projects in a range of sectors including renewable energy, labour organising, independent media, feminist research, migrant solidarity activism, sustainable fashion, and arms trade abolition.
+
+We are currently 11 worker-owners, located in 6 countries. We are a Co-operative Society, registered in the UK with the Financial Conduct Authority. Legally, we are a freelance consortium, which means that we operate as a group of self-employed contractors, and are responsible for our own individual income tax.
+
+Autonomic aspires to follow the [7 co-operative principles as defined by the International Co-operative Alliance](https://www.ica.coop/en/cooperatives/cooperative-identity).
+
+## Pay
+
+We are currently paid £20 per hour for all work.
+
+Everyone in the co-op will always be paid the same rate, which we decide on collectively and adjust according to how well we’re doing.
+
+## What we’re looking for
+
+We are looking for folks who have expertise in the following areas:
+
+### Required commitments
+
+- Care, communication and compassion. Trust & responsibility. Comradeship. Each according to their need.
+- Available for around 10-20 hours per week. We work in multiple timezones but mostly find that being available for at least 1-3 hours for checking in and co-working between 13:00 UTC - 15:00 UTC is the best.
+
+### Required skills
+
+We are in need of people who have experience or interest in front end development.
+
+- Comfortable with front-end technologies:  HTML / CSS / JS / PHP (any or all)
+- Comfortable writing WordPress themes and templates and debugging obscurities
+
+### Bonus/Nice to Have
+
+- Wordpress plug-in development
+- Experience with collective organising & consensus decision making
+- Debian systems administration skills: Bash scripting, running system upgrades, handling SSH keys etc.
+- Interest in collectively learning how to run a cooperative under capitalism
+- Experience in running union, grassroots or community political campaigns
+- New business development, chasing leads
+- Finance administration: invoicing, tax, forecasting
+- Client communications / relations / meeting, conflict resolution
+- Project management: progress tracking and planning, budgeting and estimates
+
+## Process
+
+People of color, women, genderqueer, non-binary and trans folks, neurodiverse and queer folks are strongly encouraged to apply.
+
+Email [hello@autonomic.zone](mailto:hello@autonomic.zone) with your CV (it really doesn’t have to be fancy, just a list of work) and a little bit about yourself and what you’re looking for work wise.
+
+If we think you might be suitable for these roles, you’ll be invited for a few chats with members of the co-op who will show you more about the kinds of work we do and be able to answer any questions you have.
+
+If we want to take you on, we’ll then have a vote amongst our members and you can start working for us right away as a “potential member”. After ~100 hours of work you can be invited to join the co-op as a full member.