# Commons Garden

> Commons Garden guards and enhances knowledge commons by sponsoring initiatives thru conflict resolution, specs, documentation, consulting

### 🗺️ [visit main board](https://www.figma.com/file/icqNCkdyDQjVF22uqd3dn5/Commons-Garden-notes-board?node-id=0%3A1&t=4IhGoMa8PuSOdFJc-1)

## Mission statement

The Scuttlebutt ecosystem is comprised of informal alliances, projects and organisations. Our mission is to support a diverse and vibrant ecosystem by:

* Supporting *alignment and coordination* among actors
* Identifying *emergent problems* and tensions
* Facilitating communication and *dispute resolution*
* Hosting (or pointing to) existing *specifications*
* Guiding the *production of new* specifications
* Producing (or pointing to) *comparative* documentation
* *Mapping* the ecosystem

## How to collaborate

1. **Per initiative**
Check the *Open Initiatives* list below. If you:
1. have field knowledge on the subject and
2. are willing to participate on discussions
join conversation (signal app needed) and introduce yourself.
2. **Overall organization**
If you have experience managing coalition groups, we'd love to hear from you. Please follow *About us* and join conversation (signal app needed).
3. **Keep in touch**
Commons Garden is on initial stages, but keep informed via our [Open Collective](opencollective.com/commons-garden) page

## Open initiatives

1. **invite-driven onboarding**
- [diagram](https://www.figma.com/file/eG3RjraaGHIdv1nuUp667J/Invite-driven-onboarding?node-id=0%3A1&t=R3PDlUca7gZLo0is-1) (figjam)
- [documentation](https://gitlab.com/staltz/manyverse/-/issues/1887) (gitlab)
4. **p2p delete**
- [board](https://www.figma.com/file/a3MVrJ2Z8UDILkHK0NUeYb/p2p-delete?node-id=5%3A311&t=7mcjSfgX1w3FWexU-1) (figjam)
- [documentation](https://hackmd.io/@praxis/p2p-delete) (hackmd)
- [conversation](https://signal.group/#CjQKIGFSis4tbGdzpujg_Xw-UudxHZnnPuxmxPfFjSbzvII7EhAXQHs1aCqWBymiid6TMV78) (signal)
5. **identity recovery**
- [board](https://www.figma.com/file/Qkei1VgElbho66UinY9MzH/identity-recovery?node-id=0%3A1&t=X61ec705X2vYRHFz-1) (figjam)
- [proposal](https://gitlab.com/staltz/manyverse/-/issues/1942) (gitlab)
6. **SSB moderation**
- [board](https://www.figma.com/file/C9YFMDwsOIXbmt88QoxL2B/SSB-moderation?node-id=0%3A1&t=F1bQPrqHYAd5pXwu-1)
- [conversation](https://signal.group/#CjQKIKbXJYLBlMFQeAj5vSma4LFdEzmFhBnguL3AuOeJEclnEhBx3ApnFdng1LyS7ZR7l836)
- [documentation](https://hackmd.io/@praxis/moderation)
8. **backlog** ([board](https://www.figma.com/file/UIQDqYS48Pkg0ARSY9Rpf4/feature-backlog?node-id=0%3A1&t=uNvxo364L3hzJ2BL-1))
- multi-device (fusion identity)
- P2P analytics
- dying online
- collections
- SSB simulation lab
- stencil

## About us

- [Notes board](https://www.figma.com/file/icqNCkdyDQjVF22uqd3dn5/Commons-Garden-notes-board?node-id=0%3A1&t=VhZY9FHyGyHaR5iW-1) (figjam)
- [conversation](https://signal.group/#CjQKIAneWf9J6yoVIAKUjLdLynBTbQxuaTEVHbpaLioQhdL-EhAybesuQH-M_Uy8AvcJkEeW) (signal)
- documentation: this file

## Policies

1. **guarding and enhancing the commons**
what projects have to have for us to sponsor it? why? be explicit
- usability
- security
- aligning parallel work
- connections
- conflict resolution
- coalescing - standards, patterns
- code of conduct
- technical standards
1. **low-stress emotional labor**
maintenance never ends, so organization ideas trumps speed
1. **from nouns to verbs**
an effort _towards_, not a state of perfection
- start with community we know (scuttlebutt)
- **we serve the community**
- you don't have time to do specs? we have it for you.
- we can resource that for you!
- you can focus on great experiences instead
- we get it off your plate
- conflict resolution
- reaching agreements
- accelerator