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+title: Come join the good ship Autonomic!
+description: Hi do you want to work with the coolest anarchist tech workers co-operative?
+image: robertmccall.jpg
+category: decision making, democracy, meta
+date: 2021-11-25
+---
+
+
+## Background
+
+Autonomic is a worker-owned co-operative, 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 12 worker-owners, located on four continents worldwide. 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).
+
+We're currently looking to build capacity in the co-op in key areas to help take us to the next level.
+
+## Pay
+
+We are currently paid £16 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.
+
+## Why we are cool
+
+We are fun queer comrade hackers tryna do good things in the world.
+
+## What we're looking for:
+
+We are looking for folks who have expertise in the following areas:
+
+### Required
+- Care, communicatiton and compassion. Trust. Comradeship. Each according to their need.
+- Available for around 10-20 hours per week **between 8am UTC and 3pm UTC**
+
+### Skill areas
+
+We are in need of people who have experience or interest in at least 2 of these areas:
+
+- Project management: progress tracking and planning, budgeting and estimates.
+- Client communications / relations / meeting, conflict resolution.
+- Infrastrucure skills: Debian, Ansible, Git, Docker, Docker Swarm in the context of Co-op Cloud (https://coopcloud.tech).
+- Wordpress development (front end and back end): PHP, CSS, Composer, Docker.
+- Finance administration: invoicing, tax, forecasting, 
+
+### Bonus/Nice to Have
+
+- Wordpress plug-in development
+- Drupal development
+- New business development
+
+## Process
+
+People of color, women, genderqueer, non-binary and trans folks, neurodiverse and queer folks strongly encouraged to apply.
+
+Email helo@autonomic.coop with your CV (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.
+
+<hr>
+
+_image by Robert McCall_
+
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