> For the complete documentation index, see [llms.txt](https://meet-coop-1.gitbook.io/handbook-trial/llms.txt). Markdown versions of documentation pages are available by appending `.md` to page URLs; this page is available as [Markdown](https://meet-coop-1.gitbook.io/handbook-trial/5-commons.hour/commons.hour-programme/commons.hour-the-venue.md).

# commons.hour - the venue

> Updated: 26aug2021
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> This is draft, to be evolved xxx

*commons.hour* is the main bridge - the most regular and approachable bridge - between user members and operational members of meet.coop, and one of the essential venues for multistakeholder stewarding of the coop’s commons. The format - *regular, scheduled, compact, facilitated, plural contributions* - is intended to constitute **a kind of brand**: a regular venue where users can talk to and listen to operational members, and all can tune in to one another’s perspectives.

> See [commons.hour](/handbook-trial/4-assemblies-and-deliberations/assemblies-and-deliberations/commons.hour.md), the 'assembly' space, one of meet.coop's core venues, part of the stewarding machinery of meet.coop.
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> See [commons.hour - the design project](/handbook-trial/5-commons.hour/commons.hour-programme.md) This is the evolutionary project that the commons.hour venue is designed to inform, evaluate and energise.

Basic protocols of commons.hour include:

* commons.hour is a monthly meeting held on the **fourth Monday** at 18:00 UTC 
* the meeting lasts for **60 minutes**
* the meeting takes place here <https://de.meet.coop/b/mik-pov-htz-fvi>
* commons.hour has **extra.time** of 30 minutes afterwards, for informal connections and follow-through (including `offers-&-wants`) among whoever chooses to stay
* commons.hour and extra.time are **facilitated**
* meetings normally are in English language, but we mean to expand out of this
* the standard format is 15min **presentation**/discussion-starter followed by 40min open **exchange**

For an initial period, commons.hour will serve as the **design venue** for multistakeholder governance in the coop. See [commons.hour - the design project](/handbook-trial/5-commons.hour/commons.hour-programme.md). In a sense - the sense in which ‘governance’ is the continuous, reflexive reassessment and redesign of an institutional practice by a community that is 'subject to' the institution - **ongoing redesign** continues to be the function of *commons.hour*.

The initial design period - the project - will close-out when meet.coop adopts a constitution, and holds its first General Assembly. Protocols developed during that period will determine just how *commons.hour* functions after that point. But one way and another, being **a bridge and a place of exchange** between multiple stakeholder communities, and being a venue for organisational design and infrastructure design under principles of **design justice** and **conviviality**, are at the heart of the *commons.hour* ‘brand’.

xxx commons.hour and [commoning](/handbook-trial/1-principles/commoning.md). Stewarding, provisioning, enjoying. A cultural commons, an aesthetic commons.