After Civic Hall convened an event discussing Trebor Scholz's pathbreaking article in Medium titled "[Platform cooperatives vs](https://medium.com/@trebors/platform-cooperativism-vs-the-sharing-economy-2ea737f1b5ad) the sharing economy," a working group was launched that has met several times for lunchtime conversation and information sharing. This group includes representatives of the Freelancers Union, Fair Care Labs, Blue Ridge Labs, the Robin Hood Foundation, and others. Scholz is now organizing a two-day conference on this topic this fall at The New School, which Civic Hall is co-sponsoring. Civic Hall held a follow-up event after the conference in January 2016, and plans to continue hosting the working group on a regular basis.
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