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  • 1 Principles
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    • Commoning
      • Spaces stewarded as commons
      • Commoning - Three moments
      • Contributing in commons - A governance hybrid
      • Classic FLOSS peer-to-peer governance
      • Classic co-op governance
      • Assemblies - Governance in ‘roots’ movement organisations
      • Full-range commoning - The contribution of care work
      • Commoning as a practice of dual power - Beyond . .
    • Principles & protocols
      • Value and value(ing)
      • Values as practices in working order
      • Coop values, DisCO
  • 2 Political economy
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    • Members and contributions
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      • Active user members
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      • Privileges and obligations
      • Sanctions
      • Fair use of BBB space
      • Contributions
      • Contribution accounting
        • Contribution & recognition
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        • Work of valuing, and means of recording and valuing (mapping) contributions
      • Funding contributions
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      • Voting
    • Commons political economy
      • Ownership, assets and commons
      • Dissolving meet.coop
      • Fiat money, mutual credit, fair wage, sweat equity
      • A commons and its members - Stewarding, contributing, enjoying
      • Dependence - Livelihood, infrastructure, dual power
      • Livelihood, privilege, contribution
      • Provisioning and hosting
      • Employment, federation and voluntary contribution
      • Revenue, surplus and distribution
      • Development funding, investment
      • Value, values, value(ing) and production in-and-of commons
      • Contribution, privilege and justice - The purpose of protocols
  • 3 Social relations
    • Social relations
    • Intentions, principles
    • Actions in three landscapes
    • Dimensions of community
      • Plural community - Three sectors
      • Pluriverse
      • 1 Coop - Transformed economy, making the coop-commons
      • 2 Solidarity - Transformed silos, formación
        • Tools for conviviality
        • Formación - Learning, the dance of knowing
      • 3 Toolstack - Transformed organising capability, infrastructuring
        • Dance of knowing
        • Design justice
      • Multiple languages, plural regions, uneven development
      • Privacy
    • Seven Rs of civil-society activist commitment
      • Rescue
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      • Re-weaving the economy
      • Reparation, reconciliation, restorative justice
      • Regenerative activism
      • Regime change, revolution
  • 4 Assemblies and deliberations
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      • Circles
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      • Standing assembly (all-hands)
      • commons.hour
      • General assembly
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      • Protocols - Time
      • Protocols - Multiple languages
      • Protocols - Facilitation & moderation
  • 5 commons.hour
    • commons.hour - The programme
      • Basic links for commons.hour
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      • Programme & presenters
      • Defining what meet.coop does - A handbook and a commons
      • Prototyping and collaborating
      • Defining what meet.coop is for
      • Running list of sessions
      • Summary running list
      • Design and prototyping in commons.hour
      • commons.hour - the venue
    • commons.hour protocols
      • Session protocols
      • Session pre- and post-protocols
      • commons.hour methodology
    • Design principles
      • Design justice - note
      • Plural community
      • Coop principles
      • commons.hour ‘specials'
  • 6 Constitution
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      • Conventional outline of a constitution
      • A design approach to a constitution - an assemblage of protocols
      • Protocols vs rules
      • The handbook and the constitution
      • Core protocols aka principles of meet.coop
      • Draft constitution
  • 7 Code of conduct
    • Code of conduct
      • In platform spaces
      • In media spaces
      • In venue spaces
      • Operational members
      • User members
      • Making the coop-commons economy
      • Provisioning and mobilising tools and capability
      • Cultivating solidarity and mutuality
  • 8 Terminology
    • Terminology
      • BBB - Big Blue Button
      • Containers
      • Discourse
      • FLOSS - Free-libre open-source software
      • gitBook
      • Greenlight
      • Markdown
      • Matrix/Element
      • NextCloud
      • Sweat equity
      • Sysadmins aka ‘admins’
  • 9 Supporting materials
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    • Other organisations
      • Open Credit Network - Membership Agreement
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  1. 3 Social relations

Intentions, principles

Here we outline our approach to principles, as the basis of a Constitution for meet.coop. We also link to a Code of conduct.

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Updated 2021 10 11

As distinct from the libertarian-individualist ‘free’ ethos of the FLOSS world, and a merely technical ‘stewarding’ (aka coordination) of repositories of code, meet.coop’s commitment to commoning of digitally mediated practice spaces involves stewarding based on:

  • the privileges and obligations of participation in the commons

  • associated sanctions and protocols and

  • a set of collective intentions that are facilitated by stewarding, provisioning and mobilising the commons.

This is profoundly ‘values based’. But the protocol-based approach is nevertheless distinct, also, from an approach based on procliamed ‘shared values’. Protocols instantiate altered relations of production, in working practice; they operationally constitute interweaving, prefigurative practices of a radically transformed planetary economy, and of a global civil society informed by ‘blessed unrest’.

The contributions of altered social relations in various fields are sketched under our , and they include these:

  • Principles of stewarding and commoning that we adopt, in our working relationships with people, media and material means, as distinct from the relations of property, ownership, investment, accumulation, commodity, profit and surplus, and so on, that are dominant in the wider economy.

  • Principles of coop-commons economy and doughnut economy that we adopt in orientating to and contributing in the wider economies that meet.coop and its members participate in.

  • Principles of solidarity and mutuality that we adopt, as the basis of our working protocols.

  • Principles of learning and capability, in commons, in cooperation and in the mutual sector, as the basis of relationships between and within the plural sectors of meet.coop community.

  • Principles of design justice and tools for conviviality that underpin the ways we construct and mobilise the digital infrastructures in our operational toolstack and public toolstack.

  • Principles of infrastructuring and stack of commons that we adopt, in mutualising and orchestrating our stewarding practice for different kinds of digitally mediated spaces.

A ‘principle’ is more or less a higher-level, more abstracted protocol. Thus, all the above are constructed on a more specific identification of privileges, obligations, sanctions and protocols, for specific kinds of , specific kinds of and specific .

The Constitution of meet.coop is in turn constructed more abstractly on the basis of the above principles, and refers operationally to them. See Part 6

Likewise, in line with the above, we set out an evolving code of conduct for the spaces stewarded by meet.coop. It will take the form of a compilation of privileges, obligations, sanctions and protocols defined in other sections of this handbook, for specific kinds of , specific kinds of and specific . See Part 7:

Dimensions of community
Commoning
Coop - transformed economy
Solidarity - Formación
Formación - Learning, the dance of knowing
Tools for conviviality
Design justice
Toolstack - Infrastructuring
Stack of commons
spaces
members
dimensions of community
Constitution
spaces
members
dimensions of community
Code of conduct