Designing your community with CommunityRule
Topic
Designing your community with CommunityRule
Description
How does power flow in your community, and how could it flow differently? This session provides a hands-on experience with CommunityRule, a tool for describing and designing community governance. Come with a community in mind that you are part of, and expect to come away with new ideas for how its governance might evolve.
Hopes & dreams
- People will come away with new ideas about how to develop their communities
- Some new developers will help contribute to CR’s future
Core facilitators
- Nathan Schneider @ntnsndr
- James Brennan
Main contact (email)
- Nathan Schneider nathan.schneider@colorado.edu
Space Requirements
- [] Electricity
- [] Monitor
- [] Whiteboard or pad
- [] Table and chairs
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Seating in circle - [] Open space outdoors
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Either indoors or outdoors is fine -
Other (Specify): Internet access
Time Requirements
- [] 1 hour
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2 hours - [] Multiple sessions across 1 day
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Multiple sessions across 2 days - [] Multiple sessions across 3 days
- [] Pre breakfast session
- [] Evening session
- [] Other (Specify)
Who should participate
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Coders -
Creatives - [] Policymakers
- [] Children under 12
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Teens 12 - 18 -
Anyone and everyone - [] Other (Specify)
What will participants take away?
Insights into how they might design their community governance differently
Keywords
governance, user experience design
Session rundown (tell us a rough outline of your plan)
- Overview and rationale of CommunityRule
- Status quo: Map out the current shape of your community
- Sharing back
- Future vision: Map out what you might want
- Sharing back