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Governance
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Contributors	Jonny Saunders
Completion Status	In Progress
Active Status	Active
Approval Status	Provisional

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Neuromatch.social is a cooperatively governed instance that is operated with shared control over financial, labor, and structural decisions. Membership is not passive - members that make use of the instance are expected to make contributions to running the instance according to their ability and the need of the instance.

Overview

Most of the everyday work of the instance is done by working groups, but their structure and the rest of the operations of the instance are decided by the membership. Changes to the instance are made with #Proposals.

member initiates a discussion either amongst the general membership or a working group. from that discussion a proposal is drafted. if it passes with the appropriate consensus threshold then it is entered into the policy register

Administrative Objects

What kinds of things exist in the governance system of neuromatch.social

See Category:Administrative_Object

The instance governance is determined by several different types of Administrative Objects, each of which is operationalized as a wiki page with a particular category, which in turn has a page schema^[1].,

Bylaws

	Description	Voting Period	Block Threshold
Bylaws

Policies

Norms

Actions

What kind of things can be done by a member of neuromatch.social

Any member can present a

Discussions

discussion structure

Proposals

proposal structure

Working Groups

Bounded Discretion

Voting

See also: Consensus

Neuromatch.social decisions are made with a modified form of consensus for large asynchronous groups.

Voting in a Consensus system is not like voting in a majoritarian system: rather than voting for the thing that would be best for you, you are voting for

elaborate...

consensus thresholds....

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 == Overview ==
+Most of the everyday work of the instance is done by [[Mastodon/Working Groups|working groups]], but their structure and the rest of the operations of the instance are decided by the membership. Changes to the instance are made with [[#Proposals]].
 ''member initiates a discussion either amongst the general membership or a working group. from that discussion a proposal is drafted. if it passes with the appropriate consensus threshold then it is entered into the [[Mastodon/Policies|policy register]]''
-== Objects ==
+== Administrative Objects ==
 ''What kinds of things exist in the governance system of neuromatch.social''
+See [[:Category:Administrative_Object]]
+The instance governance is determined by several different types of [[Administrative Objects]], each of which is operationalized as a wiki page with a particular [[Special:Categories|category]], which in turn has a  [[mediawikiwiki:Extension:PageSchemas|page schema]]<ref>ie. a [[Special:Templates|template]] that sets [[Special:Properties|properties]] and a [[Special:Forms|form]] for interacting with it</ref>.,
 === Bylaws ===
+{{#ask:
+[[Category:Bylaw]]
+|? Has Description=Description
+|? Has Voting Period=Voting Period
+|? Has Block Threshold=Block Threshold
+}}
 === Policies ===
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 == Voting ==
+''See also: [[Consensus]]''
 Neuromatch.social decisions are made with a modified form of consensus for large asynchronous groups.
+Voting in a [[Consensus]] system is not like voting in a majoritarian system: rather than voting for the thing that would be best for you, you are voting for
 ''elaborate...''
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 [[Category:Governance]]
 [[Category:Project]]
+[[Category:Policy]]