My as-yet unlaunched solution to this is mutual.email - mutual, as in mutually owned. The idea is to have democratic, member led decision-making, while eventual

My as-yet unlaunched solution to this is mutual.email - mutual, as in mutually owned. The idea is to have democratic, member led decision-making, while eventually farming out the technical work to a managed hosting provider, or staff. One of the key criteria is that it should be able to outlive any of the parties involved in using or delivering it - something only an organisation can do.