Collaborate
with clarity
Help your community make important decisions in a way that reflects its unique values.
Help your community make important decisions in a way that reflects its unique values.
Here's a quick overview of the process, from start to finish.
Document how your community makes decisions
Build an operating manual for a successful community
Get a link to your manual for your group to review and evolve
These are popular patterns for making decisions in mutual aid and open source communities. You can use them as they are or as a starting place for customizing your own CommunityRule.
Important decisions require unanimous agreement. Proposals pass only if no serious objections remain.
Authority is granted to those doing the work. If you do the task, you decide how it gets done.
Starts as a Dictatorship for speed, moving to a Board, and finally to full community ownership.
Voting cost is squared (V²), preventing a majority from steamrolling a passionate minority.
The rules of decision-making must be open and available to everyone, and this can happen only if they are formalized.