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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
    • Political economy
    • Members and contributions
      • User members, user-member accounts
      • Active user members
      • Operational members
      • Register of members
      • Privileges and obligations
      • Sanctions
      • Fair use of BBB space
      • Contributions
      • Contribution accounting
        • Contribution & recognition
        • Contributions & locations of work
        • Work of valuing, and means of recording and valuing (mapping) contributions
      • Funding contributions
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      • Work contributions
      • Recognition of contributions
      • 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
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      • Rescue
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      • Re-weaving the economy
      • Reparation, reconciliation, restorative justice
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      • Regime change, revolution
  • 4 Assemblies and deliberations
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      • Standing assembly (all-hands)
      • commons.hour
      • General assembly
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      • Protocols - Time
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  • 5 commons.hour
    • commons.hour - The programme
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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
    • Constitution
      • 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’
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  1. 5 commons.hour
  2. commons.hour - The programme

Running list of sessions

Scheduling a sequence of a dozen-or-so monthly instances of commons.hour, over a 12-month period.

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Updated: 05sep2021

There are more than twelve sessions below. It seemed appropriate to expand the running list a little, to enable more member organisations to bring a focus. Three phases. Some sessions held in dual language?

For a shorter listing, without comments and notes, see

The paras below, formatted like this one, indicate which area of the handbook we have in our sights for this session.

Phase 1 - Intro

Session #1- Sept 2021 - Intro

Wouter Tebbens, Mike Hales @ meet.coop Community circle - Intro to commons.hour: intentions of commons.hour, rationale for the running list of topics, the methodology for designing a weave of contributions thro protocols and a handbook.

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Phase 2 - Opening the frame(s)

Session #2 - Oct 2021

Ela Kagel @ Supermarkt, Berlin - Community development and geography, the community of a trans-region digital infrastructure? Learning to behave in digital space.

Intersectional community - Community development in a trans-region digital-mediated landscape: ‘infrastructuring’ as community development

Session #3 - Nov 2021

Natalie Brenner, Jaime Villareal @ May First Movement Technology, USA/Mexico: Autonomous movement organisations and governance, in the MayFirst platform of tools and movement education.

Assemblies and deliberations - Operating with a membership comprising autonomous movement organisations. Working with a machinery (or ecology) of boards, annual assemblies, elections, priorities; paid and unpaid contributions.

December 2021 - No session this month.

Session #4 - Jan 2022

Monica Garriga/David Jacovkis/David Gomez @ femProcomuns, Barcelona: developing and maintaining a digital commons. the difference it makes, to approach a coop as building a commons?

Political economy - Provisioning the stack of digital commons: evolving and tuning the toolstack and how it runs, maintaining it, paying a fair wage for the labour involved.

  • Hold this in dual language?

  • Invite Remix to comment here, in advance of their later session #8?

Session #5 - Feb 2022

Graham Mitchell @ Platform6, Webarchitects, Yorkshire: governance in coops, specifically multistakeholder. Being realistic about work contributions from unpaid members (unpaid executive membership of Boards?) but not collapsing into a de-facto provider-led worker coop, or passive consumer coop.

Assemblies and deliberations - Coop governance - in workers’ coops, consumer coops. Working with a machinery of executive vs non-executive board members, users and workers, elections and sociocratic circles.

  • Comment invited from Francesca Pick @ GreaterThan/OuiShare/Enspiral

Session #6 - Mar 2022

TBC - ¿Silvia/Stacco? @ Guerrilla Translations/DisCO project - or perhaps ¿Lynn? @ Mikorizal/ValueFlows: contribution accounting in practice, including kinds of contributors, types of work, forms of recognition (including credits), tools for accounting and valueing.

Political economy - Contribution accounting and recognition of different kinds of contributions; including livelihood of operational members.

  • Invite Nathan Schneider to comment, in advance of their later session #10?

Session #7 - Apr 2022

Cade Diehm/Ben Royer @ New Design Congress: ‘Society as user’, design justice as a practice in cultivating a stack of digital commons.

Intersectional community - Solidarity as collaborating and federating: how to achieve mutuality across movements in our making and mobilising of venue-, media- and platform-spaces

  • Invite Trinh @ commUNITY, Georgia @ SimSec, Stefi @ Moving Sports to comment here? Might this convergence of perceived concerns be white-male tokenist?

Session #8 - May 2022

Sophie Bloemen @ Commons.network/European municipalist network: Organising in a frame of municipalism and doughnut economics, multi-region/multi-language: tools for conviviality, platforms and digital infrastructure. And the governance of these - commoning, not just coops.

Assemblies and deliberations - Distributed peer-to-peer organising; deliberation (in threads), text chat. Working in a flat organisation: work-circle (sociocratic?) organisation, project organisation, campaign organisation.

  • Hold this in dual language?

Session #9 - Jun 2022

Fred Sultan, Yves Otis @ Remix the Commons: cross-language and cross-region challenges and shared learning spaces.

Intersectional community - Silos: why we find ourselves in silos, how to organise ‘beyond fragments’ and uneven development

  • Hold this in dual language?

Session #10 - Jul 2022

Nathan Schneider @ Media Enterprise Design Lab, U Boulder Colorado /Everything for Everyone: a ‘provocation’ on multistakeholder governance, rationale for federation rather than internal complexity.

Political economy - Collaborating, flat organising & norms in the world of P2P free-libre culture. Benevolent dictatorship, unlimited individualism, ‘autonomism’? The power of protocols & limits of ‘trust’. Differences in a commons, between free-libre freedom and sanctioned participation.

No session in August.

Session #11 - Sept 2022

Jason Nardi @ RIPESS: Organising and steering for solidarity economy across flat organisations, within and across regions.

Assemblies and deliberations - Peer-to-peer organising; deliberation (in threads) and text chat. Flat organisations: work-circle (sociocratic?) organisation, project organisation, campaign organisation. Benevolent dictatorship, in the world of P2P, endless forking - even, sectarianism? Falling back on libertarian individualism?

  • Jason: Invite local solidarity economy organisations to contribute? NYC? Jackson? Francophone north-south? Etc etc.

  • Invite contribution by MayFirst? GEO?

  • Hold this in dual language?

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Phase 3 - Drawing together protocols into practice

Session #12 - Oct 2022

meet.coop Community circle - Firming-up on protocols, assembling and implementing a handbook - GENSET.

Any chance of involving Cilla Ross in this, ex-Vice Principal, Coop University, UK? As governance of a commons of movement capability, aka a distributed college

Session #13 - Nov 2022

meet.coop Community circle - Distilling protocols and principles into a Constitution. Including Political economy - User members’ and operational members’ privileges and limitations (aka Code of conduct); obligations and sanctions (including moderation, exclusion, credit or status penalties, whatever).

Contribution from Emi Do, Matt Noyes @ social.coop invited here.

Session #14 - Dec 2022

meet.coop Community circle - General assembly, preparations for the inaugural assembly. Relationship with Standing assembly of operational members (aka All-hands) and commons.hour (aka standing assembly of user- and operational-members). A Council (comprising the speakers of operational Circles?) as standing proxy for the General assembly?

Recruit user members to Community circle - although this should have been ongoing.

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Additional session - To be scheduled?

Tor project - xxx

Political economy - Members’ privileges and limitations in the digital commons of meet.coop; obligations and sanctions. User members; operational members. Safety, privacy, defence of meet.coop spaces.

Basic links

Please do register if you hope to participate in a session. A head count helps us plan for facilitation.

Documentation on commons.hour

Sign-up for all sessions is in Sign-up posts, in the

commons.hour in the handbook

Discourse forum
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Summary running list
Running list of sessions - outline : Sept 2021