CommunityRuleFrontend/about.md

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"we hope to introduce nothing harsh or burdensome" - Rule of St. Benedict (c. 516)

CommunityRule is a project of the Media Enterprise Design Lab at the University of Colorado Boulder.

Points of reference

• Contributor Covenant
• Metagovernance Project
  • "Admins, Mods, and Benevolent Dictators for Life"
  • "Modular Politics"
• Monastic rules
  • Rule of St. Augustine
  • Rule of St. Benedict
  • Rule of St. Clare
  • unMonastery
    • Ben Vickers, "Rules and Rhythms," e-flux (2019)
• One Click Orgs
• Online communities
  • Loomio Community Group
  • Social.coop bylaws
• Software communities
  • Apache
  • Debian
  • Python
  • Wikipedia

Design goals

• Compatibility with Loomio
  • Translate each module into Loomio practices, implicitly or explicitly (e.g., time for a proposal, threshold, voting options)
• Module system with database
  • JavaScript pulling from GDocs?
  • Jekyll csv data pull? https://jekyllrb.com/docs/datafiles/