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permalink: /about/
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-*"we hope to introduce nothing harsh or burdensome" - Rule of St. Benedict (c. 516)*
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+Too many of our communities, especially online, adopt default governance practices based on top-down "[implicit feudalism](https://osf.io/gxu3a/?view_only=11c9e93011df4865951f2056a64f5938)"—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.
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-CommunityRule is a project of the [Media Enterprise Design Lab](https://cmci.colorado.edu/medlab/) at the University of Colorado Boulder.
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+This is a very preliminary prototype. The eventual purpose is to do for governance what the [Contributor Covenant](https://www.contributor-covenant.org/) has done for shared norms——enable easy, drag-and-drop implementation 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.
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+*CommunityRule is a project of the [Media Enterprise Design Lab](https://cmci.colorado.edu/medlab/) at the University of Colorado Boulder, in collaboration with the [Metagovernance Project](http://metagov.org/).*
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## Points of reference
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* [Contributor Covenant](https://www.contributor-covenant.org/)
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* Module system with database
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- JavaScript pulling from GDocs?
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- Jekyll csv data pull? https://jekyllrb.com/docs/datafiles/
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