donate his time and resources toward making it more successful.
Given all these considerations, project participants have rated the success of the project
so far quite highly.
The resources that the project needs to stay in place are the following:
The site is designed to be mostly self-maintaining. Jason Lemieux and the Eggplant
Active Media Workers' Collective have volunteered to do the hosting and provide
maintenance pro bono. The moderator role can be handed off to staff at the Cooperative
Development Institute, as the directory fits within CDI's mission. Eggplant is willing to
donate half the cost of a domain name. Funding for the difference could come from CDI
or from a donation button on the directory site.
There are many exciting avenues of further development that can be pursued. These
include:
specifically is relevant in a particular locality
based communication and put complementary organizations (such as producer coops
and consumer coops) in touch with each other
with web-hosting and Web development--giving them greater control over their
entries.
Summary Evaluation Table
Goals and Objectives Performance
awareness and improved relationships among organizations]
(see Appendix 1).
Obstacles to
cooperatives doing
business with each
other
gathered.
Possible Solutions to
bring to cooperatives
approve identified
solutions.
approve identified
solutions.
varying degrees of
approval (see
Appendix 2).