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# Swiss Public Inference Utility

### A data cooperative with a focus on supporting the [Public AI](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_AI) movement in Switzerland, established to collectively manage data of, and derive added value from, open and shared datasets and models for automation, machine learning, artificial intelligence.

**Join us today and be a cool SPIU'ler!** ⁂ 🚀

To become an eligible member, you will need to purchase 2 shares in the first year, and 1 share every following year. It is easiest therefore to make a one-time share purchase, followed by a recurring annual membership. See [detailed instructions](join.md) and if you have any questions, please [get in touch](mailto:coop@spiu.ch).

# Übersicht – Overview

- [Organisation](org.md)
- [Genossenschafter\*in werden - Become a member](join.md)
- [Mitgliederverzeichnis - Directory](members.md)

## Rechtliche Grundlagen - Legal Basis

- [Statuten](statutes/statutes_de.md) - [Statutes](statutes/statutes.md)
- [Handelregisteramt Bern](http://www.hrabe.ch/)

## Operatives – Operations

- [Fahrplan - Roadmap](to_do.md)
- [Einnahmen - Credits](https://opencollective.com/spiu/transactions?type=CREDIT)
- [Ausgaben - Expenses](https://opencollective.com/spiu/expenses)

# ¶

“Rarely do all the participants using a resource have identical investment or harvesting power”
-- [Ostrom 2009b](https://www.thecommonsjournal.org/articles/10.18352/ijc.252/#r56) in [Fennell 2011](https://www.thecommonsjournal.org/articles/10.18352/ijc.252/)

This repository is a fork of [posmocoop/general](https://github.com/posmocoop/general/blob/44c5234882e3d8b6c4776684e919640717c1186b/README.md), and is licensed with [CC0 1.0 Universal](LICENSE) to assure future reuse.