Organizing Circle policy

This is the policy and documentation for the Organizing Circle.

Description of social.coop member types

Context: In order to move forward with an engagement plan for the community we need to identify and define where we are right now. This will be used to develop introduction material and orientations as well as look to build out our governance model by defining the aspects of membership or ways we connect as members.

Loomio discussion threads:

• https://www.loomio.com/d/7fdFsRj2/social-coop-governance-scoping

Proposal: We identified the following types of involvement with social.coop (all engagement is voluntary and at choice):

Contribution	Platform	Subclasses	Prior conditions
Microblogging	Mastodon server	Members may be inactive (account abandoned), invisible (no content generation but reading and possibly sharing via other avenues), and visible (content generation).	Required OpenCollective account, no mandate on monetary contributing (https://wiki.social.coop/wiki/Bylaws)
Financial	OpenCollective	Members may be non-contributing and contributing.	None
Strategic	Loomio	Members may be inactive, invisible, and visible.	Required OpenCollective account, no mandate on contributing. Required social.coop Mastodon account, no mandate on activity status.
Operational	Working groups	Members may be key role holders or general participants of working groups.	Invitation via social connections or sortition process.
Social	Matrix, regional meetings, reading groups	General catch all that comes and goes based on interest.	Invitation via social connections or announcements on platforms.