# Assemblies and deliberations

> Updated: 19jul2021

> This topic is incomplete, to be extended xxx

**Assemblies** - face-to-face venues for meet.coop stewarding - are:

* [**Circles**](https://meet-coop-1.gitbook.io/handbook-trial/4-assemblies-and-deliberations/assemblies-and-deliberations/circles), under broadly sociocratic principles - operational members
* [**Standing assembly**](https://meet-coop-1.gitbook.io/handbook-trial/4-assemblies-and-deliberations/assemblies-and-deliberations/standing-assembly-all-hands) (all-hands) - operational members
* [**commons.hour**](https://meet-coop-1.gitbook.io/handbook-trial/4-assemblies-and-deliberations/assemblies-and-deliberations/commons.hour) - operational members, user members
* [**General assembly**](https://meet-coop-1.gitbook.io/handbook-trial/4-assemblies-and-deliberations/assemblies-and-deliberations/general-assembly) - operational members, user members, Circles
* [Board of stewards](https://meet-coop-1.gitbook.io/handbook-trial/4-assemblies-and-deliberations/assemblies-and-deliberations/council) - proxy for General assembly, between assemblies; effectively a Circle of nominated spokespeople for each Circle, operating on behalf of the multistakeholder General Assembly. Convenes the General Assembly
* etc?

Media spaces for **deliberation** within meet.coop stewarding are:

* [The forum](https://meet-coop-1.gitbook.io/handbook-trial/4-assemblies-and-deliberations/assemblies-and-deliberations/the-forum) - specific nominated categories/threads in the forum? `A decisions & polls thread/category?`
* [Polls](https://meet-coop-1.gitbook.io/handbook-trial/4-assemblies-and-deliberations/assemblies-and-deliberations/polls) (?)
* etc?

Protocols for assemblies and deliberations:

* [Protocols - Time](https://meet-coop-1.gitbook.io/handbook-trial/4-assemblies-and-deliberations/assemblies-and-deliberations/protocols-time)
* [Protocols - Multiple languages](https://meet-coop-1.gitbook.io/handbook-trial/4-assemblies-and-deliberations/assemblies-and-deliberations/protocols-multiple-languages)
* [Protocols - Facilitation & moderation](https://meet-coop-1.gitbook.io/handbook-trial/4-assemblies-and-deliberations/assemblies-and-deliberations/protocols-facilitation-and-moderation)