# Design and prototyping in commons.hour

During this current project phase, `commons.hour` has four core intentions . . &#x20;

To design and initiate:

1. The **constitution** of meet.coop - leading to formal incorporation as a coop
2. **commons.hour** - an ongoing regular periodic public venue for multistakeholder stewarding of the meet.coop commons
3. An ecology of working practice - including venues, media, tools and protocols - for the operational and strategic steering of contributions in the coop. In addition to `commons.hour` itself, this includes a multistakeholder **General Assembly** and a **Community circle** of operational members; and
4. A coop **handbook**.

These are prototyped in the `commons.hour` project as, respectively:

1. A **venue-space** prototype - the initial General Assembly of meet.coop, which approves a Constitution. As part of this: *protocols* for a General Assembly.
2. A further pair of **venue-space** prototypes - `commons.hour` (a public space); and a Community circle (an operational space). As part of this: *protocols* for each.
3. A **platform-space** prototype - the toolstack that is used by contributors in the project (BigBlueButton, the Discourse forum, gitBook, cloud storage, notifications. Etc?). As part of this:additional or amended *protocols* for the operational toolstack, the public toolstack and the media spaces that they support (eg forum threads, OpenCollective notifications).
4. A **media space** prototype - the members’ handbook. As part of this: *protocols* for public media spaces.

When this present development-project phase is completed, all of these prototypes will pass over into operational practice:

* This handbook will become the *working handbook*
* `commons.hour` will become the *common deliberation space* for operational and user members in stewarding the coop
* Protocols from this handbook will become the core of the *Constitution*
* Toolstack design outcomes will be embodied in the *operational toolstack,* the public toolstack and working protocols for media spaces; and
* The *Community circle* will join Tech, Organisation and Product circles in the sociocratic operational machinery of the coop.
