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Encoding Codehub
I'm trying to write a constitution
Questions (Help wanted)
Committee
Who would be on it? How to divide up tasks?
Finances
What should we spend money on and how
do we fund ourselves?
Some ideas / principles
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Lean leadership and management
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Minimal admin
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Self-organising
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Avoiding burnout (by splitting up tasks and rotating responsibilities, being “good enough”)
I think the web makes this possible
Proposal
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Three people who manage and represent (officially Chair, Secretary, Treasurer)
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'Board' of about 10 members who make decision about events, sponsorship etc
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Guidelines on how to set up new groups and run events, let people self-organise
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Experiment a lot
Tools
Planning
Decisions
Collect, document, collaborate
#codehub2018
#contrib
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Resources on self-learning and self-organisation
Learning
Kio Stark: Don't go back to school
Dave Hoover, Adewale Oshineye: Apprenticeship patterns
Peeragogy Handbook
Organisations
Frederic Laloux: Reinventing Organisations
Adrienne Maree Brown: Emergent Strategy
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to everybody who contributed
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