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Too many of our communities, especially online, adopt default governance practices based on top-down "implicit feudalism"—relying on admins or moderators, lacking even basic features of small-scale democracy. The purpose of CommunityRule is to help communities establish democratic norms for decision-making, stewardship, and culture.
This is a very preliminary prototype. The eventual purpose is to do for governance what the Contributor Covenant has done for shared norms—enable simple, drag-and-drop adoption of common-sense community tools. Since communities have diverse governance needs, however, a one-size-fits-all approach will not suffice. The goal is for communities to easily and intuitively design governance systems appropriate to their contexts.
Contribute
Contribute via Issues and Merge Requests on GitLab.
CommunityRule is a project of the Media Enterprise Design Lab at the University of Colorado Boulder, in collaboration with the Metagovernance Project.