We are proud to be a true worker co-operative, owned and operated by members. When we began flywheel, we found that the co-operative model was not only essential to driving the quality and empowerment behind our work, but incredibly useful and synchronous with our Agile development philosophies.

Thus, we find it imperative to:

• Spread the proliferation and influence of cooperatives
• Help connect start-up or transition co-ops with the best local resources
• Support other co-ops and co-op inititiatives with solidarity discounts and capacity
• Speak at co-op conferences and events and generally assist with education

We stand by our use of open source technology as a matter of principle. Not only does open source software provide better value, it provides the additional benefiets of processes that are community driven, built to meet the needs of a wide array of stakeholders, and where openness and transparency lead to greater security, system integrity and fault tolerance.

We work closely with building the software commons, whether its through providing development expertise, QA, documentation or support in bug trackers or IRC chat. We also find it effective to release code we have developed where it will be generally useful for the community at large.

As a cooperative with both a past and present involvement in grassroots community organizing, we find it imperative that our organization can act as a vehicle for building a better world!

Thus, as an organization, we often are seen:

• Speaking at events
• Helping to raise funds for local and international organizations
• Building free and low cost websites for grassroots campaigns and organizations
• Generally providing help anywhere its needed!

This is a fundamental tenant to what we do, and we are proud to do it!