Jack Thorp
Co-Founder, Fairmondo UK
Founder member of Worth Cooperating, established in West Yorkshire, Summer 2014, to build a Fairmondo marketplace in the UK. After graduating from Imperial College London with a Computing MEng in 2016, Jack has moved back home to Keighley and is now working on the Fairmondo project full time.
My Sessions
Open source and co-owned: The potent mix of collaborative software and cooperative ownership
309Fairmondo is a co-operative version of Amazon, which is owned and managed by its members. This case study will explore how Fairmondo functions as a Co-op using fully open source software to run a successful online marketplace.
Working session: Designing interoperable apps for the open app ecosystem
300Ed Russell
Jen Williams
Niran Babalola
Henry Story
Irina Bolychevsky
Jack Thorp
Laura Hilliger
Micky Metts
Juho Makkonen
Matt Wallis
Tim Davies
Victor Matekole
Dr Doug Belshaw
Ricard Espelt
Oliver Sylvester-Bradley
This session, aimed at software developers, will explore the various platforms and groups working on interoperable apps and projects with the objective of encouraging greater collaboration and standardisation within open source software development.