I work at Aptivate - http://www.aptivate.org/ and while technically we're still a not-for-profit company with two directors nominally in charge, for a number of years we've been effectively running as a worker's co-operative with decisions made by consensus. You can read a fuller description of our internal processes at http://aptivate.org/en/about/how-we-do-things/ under "Management and Governance".
A post trying to clear up some of the hype some journalists wrote about recent research looking at pancreatic cancer in mice. The original press release was discussed on hacker news: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7005169
Here's a rather more balanced report on the research and the implications of it - http://scienceblog.cancerresearchuk.org/2014/01/07/can-pancr...
Fresh is great. It lets you pull fragments of dot files from different repositories and combine then into contiguous files. So you could pull some bits from a team repository, have your own customizations on github (so you can share with others), and then have some private bits in a small private repo. Fresh well grab them all and combine then for you.
Fresh can also populate your $HOME/bin from various repos.
There is a directory[1] of reusable bits, though there are trust/security issues you might want to consider ...