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Using Loomio to govern a self-organising community

…without ever having everyone at a meeting

Dripline: How we co-operate | Hypha

Notes on incorporation, co-operation, and solidarity from a one year old co-op.

Collaborative Groups Protocol

A practical formula for creating and sustaining small, effective groups — designed to work together at scale.

Collaborative Groups Protocol

A practical formula for creating and sustaining small, effective groups — designed to work together at scale.

WG Community Standards

A community space for coordinating, convening, and collaboration around ATProto

Atmosphere Community

A community space for coordinating, convening, and collaboration around ATProto

Novelo Social

Novelo Social

Owning group data - meri's missives

Thinking about how communities can manage shared data on and off ATProto

Home | Hypha

We cultivate collective growth and meaningful livelihoods through learning and building technologies together.

Self-organizing systems: what, how, and why?

I present a personal account of self-organizing systems, framing relevant questions to better understand self-organization, information, complexity, and emergence. With this aim, I start with a notion and examples of self-organizing systems (what?), continue with their properties and related concepts (how?), and close with applications (why?) in physics, chemistry, biology, collective behavior, ecology, communication networks, robotics, artificial intelligence, linguistics, social science, urbanism, philosophy, and engineering.

The Community Manager Pattern - Nick's Blog

This post looks more closely at Brittany Ellich's work on representing groups in ATProtocol. It builds on earlier conversations and explores how these ideas might work in practice.