Organizing people and community

Ideals, values and community building

How to formulate a consistent set of ideals based on values that foster healthy communities and promote (rather than inhibit) collaboration.

Decision making, governance and deliberation

Practical approaches to collective decision making, execution and evaluation.

Concepts

• Participatory (deliberative) democracy
• Delegative democracy
• Holarchy / Sociocracy

Web applications

• Loomio
• Liquid Feedback
• DemocracyOS
• http://argu.co/

Organizations

• D-CENT

Resources

• http://www.adeeperdemocracy.org/

Efficient group collaboration

Methods for efficiently communicating and collaborating in (working) groups.

Tools

• Kanban boards: team-based task lists
• Etherpad / Hackpad: shared notepads

Legal structure and ownership

Cooperatives

One idea would be to set up a cooperative to own the land. The cooperative would then function as an ownership proxy, allowing to more freely plot land within the communities area and to simultaneously limit and guarantee ownership rights while guaranteeing