Category: Charters, constitutions, and enforcement procedures (governance). Each language text below is one published, write-once file; the CID is computed over its exact bytes and is what an IFP-21 citation pins.
A governance template from CommunityRule (Media Economies Design Lab, University of Colorado Boulder), published 2021; site content is CC BY-SA 4.0. Rendered to markdown from the template’s published module structure.
Units called Circles have the ability to decide and act on matters in their domains, which their members agree on through a Council.
Created by Media Economies Design Lab and published in the CommunityRule library. A Rule is a lightweight constitution: it names the community's structures of authority and how they change. Groups adopt it as-is or fork it.
Decentralization, delegation, trust
To join, a person must be welcomed into a particular Circle according to its policies.
Representatives of Circles regularly meet in a Council to coordinate efforts and determine the domains of each Circle, as well as to add or remove Circles from the Council.
A Circle can create roles for its members and assign authority over specified sub-domains.
Circles and the Council use consent to make decisions. Consent means that nobody presents a serious objection to a proposal.