# A Pattern Language: Civic Tech Organizing

## Levels

- Communication
- [Big Tent for Social Change](http://www.publicsphereproject.org/content/big-tent-social-change)
- Goverance
- Shared Leadership
- Small, clearly-defined roles
- [Contributors vs Members](https://handbook.enspiral.com/agreements/people.html) (Minimum possible division of member classes) [:arrow_forward:](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vyq80STU4YY#t=19m40s)
- Leadership
- Praise
- Uninvisibilized Labour
- Hacknights
- Projects
- Onboarding
- Orientation Presentation
- Trello Onboarding
- Single Project Entry Point
- Self-guided orientation
- [Mozilla Open Leadership Training](https://mozilla.github.io/open-leadership-training-series/)
- Weekly Meetings
- Consistency
- Voluntary commitments to work
- Shared task tracking tool
- Meeting artefacts
- Meeting Agendas
- Meeting Notes
- Updates in Chat

- Fast and slow lanes for involvement
- Mailing List
- A place for realtime conversation
- Weekly updates
- Standup bots (Howdy.ai)
- Finances
- Seek Sustainability
- Control of funds
- Fundraising
- Recurring donations
- corporate sponsorship
- Pull Requests
- Code Reviews
- First-timer issues
- CONTRIBUTING.md
- Code of Conduct
- Clarity of tools
- Clarity of access
- Service access inventory
- Recognize all contributions
- [`all-contributors`](https://github.com/kentcdodds/all-contributors)

## Resources

- [Original: A Pattern Language for **Building**](http://www.patternlanguage.com/patterns/patterns.html)
- [Group Works: A Pattern Language for **Group Facilitation**](https://groupworksdeck.org/patterns_by_category)
- [CivicPatterns: A Pattern Language for **Civic Tech**](http://civicpatterns.org/) [currently broken]
- [Civic Patterns GDoc](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Pb05LDbmw1UxfYxtsshnQCVXlcubxXH9EkmIe9nLIxo/edit#heading=h.2pyh4d2b4qpg)
- [`civic-tech-patterns`: A pattern language for **Civic Tech**](https://github.com/codeforamerica/civic-tech-patterns)
- [Liberating Voices: A Pattern Language for Communication](http://www.publicsphereproject.org/patterns/)
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