Development & Community › … › TEIKEI Founding Clarification Conference · 4 min read · Decided – this is how it will be
On August 5, 2026, Helmut Geißler, Burghard Flieger, and Felix Schröder met to jointly reflect on the previous considerations regarding a potential TEIKEI cooperative.
The focus was not on preparing for an immediate founding but on the question of how a producer-consumer community can gradually evolve into a collectively supported cooperative.
The discussion was based on the realization that numerous conceptual considerations had already emerged in recent months.
At the same time, it became clear that many organizational and legal questions can only be meaningfully answered once it is established:
As a result, the focus of the discussion shifted significantly:
The founding of a cooperative was no longer the central topic, but rather the joint clarification process.
Felix presented the current state of development of TEIKEI and Lightwave.
He explained that the future structure has now become much clearer in terms of differentiation.
The software, intelligence, and process infrastructure are to be further developed under the responsibility of Lightwave in steward-ownership.
A potential TEIKEI cooperative, on the other hand, would not take over the software but would organize the collectively supported projects, producers, pickup communities, and regional supply structures.
Felix also made it clear that he does not wish to take on this operational responsibility himself in the future.
His future role lies in the development of the shared infrastructure, not in the management of a cooperative.
Another focus was the question of how existing projects such as TEIKEI Obst or TEIKEI Olive can be transitioned into a collectively supported structure in the long term without once again becoming dependent on a single individual.
Helmut consistently directed the focus toward the actual founding process.
He emphasized that a cooperative does not emerge from a concept but from people being willing to take joint responsibility.
From his perspective, the process should not start with statutes or organizational details.
Much more important is first forming an initiative group.
He proposed:
He made it clear that only on this basis can it be decided whether a cooperative will actually be formed and which next steps make sense.
Burghard contributed his many years of experience in cooperative development and raised the question of how the transition from the existing community to a cooperative can be practically designed.
He suggested not immediately converting the current state of development into a founding process but first organizing an open clarification process.
Together, the guiding question emerged:
How does a producer-consumer community become a producer-consumer cooperative?
Burghard proposed making this question the starting point for a joint event.
This event should bring together people who can imagine taking on responsibility.
It should not be a founding meeting but a space in which the following is jointly clarified:
During the discussion, a shared understanding emerged.
The next step is not to found a cooperative as quickly as possible.
Rather, the first step is to clarify:
Only when these questions have been answered together can a decision be made about a concrete founding.
The following steps were agreed upon from the discussion:
This page documents the discussion from August 5, 2026 and forms a building block of the ongoing clarification process for the potential TEIKEI cooperative. The content serves as a working basis for further development and will be supplemented by future discussions.
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By Felix Schröder, with support from AI (ChatGPT)
Created on August 5, 2026 · Last updated on August 5, 2026
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