5,000 Members + Legal Framework Now Open for Review
This week we have a few big milestones. A collectively owned Bandcamp successor is on the horizon.
5,000 Members
We crossed 5,000 co-op members and co-owners of Subvert! Our membership spans across 68 countries. Let's see if we can reach 10,000 members before our June launch. If you know others who should be part of building collectively owned music infrastructure, now is the time to invite them.
Where our members call home:
New York: 265 members
Berlin: 202 members
Toronto: 98 members
Los Angeles: 96 members
Chicago: 78 members
London: 73 members
Portland: 73 members
Montreal: 72 members
Seattle: 48 members
Vancouver: 46 members
Philadelphia: 45 members
Oakland: 35 members
San Francisco: 34 members
Melbourne: 31 members
Vienna: 28 members
Final Call: Board of Directors Nominations
Board nominations close at the end of this week. This is your final opportunity to put yourself forward as a representative for either the Artist, Label, or Supporter member classes.
Remember, our board has real power—they can appoint and remove leadership, approve funding, and determine strategic direction. This is what meaningful democratic governance looks like in practice.
Serving includes:
- 3-year term
- Approximately 5 hours per month
- $100 per month compensation
Nominate yourself at the link in your inbox.
For those who have already expressed interest, you will see a separate follow-up communication in your inbox.
Open-Sourcing Our Legal Framework
After months of development, legal review, and refinement, we're ready to share the complete legal framework that enables Subvert's collective ownership model. And we invite you to dive into the details.
We're introducing a two-week period of initial member review of all of our docs. This allows you to examine the details of the Subvert Model, including:
- Co-op bylaws
- Terms of use
- Member agreement
- Fundraising terms
- Financial flows
- Decision-making matrix
This model is our unique organizational innovation: a way for Subvert to be owned by a global cooperative consisting of its community. It represents a significant investment of time, effort, and legal fees—which we're now making available to our members and eventually to the public.
To help navigate these documents, we've created:
- A Miro board showing each document and their relations to each other
- A comprehensive Google Doc for tracking all comments and suggestions
These are drafts - a mature and informed starting point for gathering questions, comments, and suggestions from our community. We've also created a dedicated section in the member forum titled "Member Review" for deeper discussion of these documents. Please dive in! We want your feedback.
Visit our forum at forum.subvert.fm to join the conversation. Respond to this email if you need a forum invite link. As a reminder, you need to create a forum account - not log in with the email associated with your membership. We haven't connected the auth system of the forum and the platform yet. Soon.
Thank you for following along and helping contribute to this new model for collective ownership. Your engagement and feedback are critical and appreciated as we move toward our June launch.
Sincerely Ours,
Subvert