Cooperative Development Guidelines
Guides, advice and templates on how to structure communities, projects and organizations.
All documents are designed to be independent so they are adopted individually and/or gradually and mutable so they can changed/edited to fit any use case.
The values underpinning these documents are:
- Participatory: beings affected have a direct say in what happens and there is plurality of opinions
- Designed for dissent
- Direct action: we do not only give voice but also agency and we follow consent that is freely given and can be revoked
- Ubuntu - “I am because we are”. We all affect each other and have responsibilities/obligations towards each other, our communities, other species and the earth as a whole
- Permacomputing
- Total Liberation and Intersectional Feminism
- Digital Commons: sharing our work freely and collaborating with others that share the same values
Communities that use these guidelines
- The JoinJabber Collective
- The Applesauce project (that these guidelines orginated from)
- The Bechamel Guix Collective
- The Munakoiso XMPP Project
- The Queer Spark collective
- The Convo XMPP project
- The muchrooms XMPP project
- The Jabboratory Collective
Document Metadata
All documents have on top the metadata that are defined in the RFC template in the Governance document. This is done because all documents double as RFCs, and we follow our own guidelines, which means the Cooperative Development Guidelines are “self-hosted”.
Social Rules
Our Code of Conduct