The purpose of the Participatory Orgs Project is to increase the participation of stakeholders in organizations by sharing a curated set of opinionated Free Cultural Works documents that support participatory organizations, including legal, governance, best practices, and even code.
Participatory Orgs itself is a participatory organization created by many contributors from the open source and block chain communities. In spirit of transparency, our own organizational documents about the vision, governance and rules for participating are shared in this repository.
The Participatory Orgs Project members are:
- Christopher Allen, entrepreneur, technologist and co-author of the SSL 3.0 (TLS 1.0) internet security standard. He teaches Technology Leadership in the Christopher in the MBA in Sustainable Systems program at Pinchot.edu and Blockchain University](http://blockchainu.co). He resides in Berkeley, CA.
- Jesse Posner, startup attorney, founder of Chainmail, graduate of Blockchain University. He resides in Oakland, CA.
The Participatory Orgs community maintains the following communication channels:
- Shared Document Repositories (github): https://github.com/ParticipatoryOrgs
- Community Documents (github): https://github.com/ParticipatoryOrgs/ParticipatoryOrgsCommunity
- Community Wiki: https://github.com/ParticipatoryOrgs/ParticipatoryOrgsCommunity/wiki
- Twitter: TBD
- Mailing List: TBD
More may be added as needed.
These documents are Copyright (c) 2015 by the Participatory Orgs Project and are licensed CC-BY (Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License)
This repository, and its contents, including any documents, commentary, or any other information therein (the "Contents"), are not legal advice nor a substitute for an attorney. The Contents are provided solely for research and informational purposes. Please consult an attorney prior to engaging in any transactions that use or are based on the Contents.
This is an open source project and we welcome contributions. There are many ways to help.
To get started, please read the contribution guidelines.
If you find typos, mistakes, inconsistencies or other problems in the Participatory Orgs documents, please let us know by filing an issue at the appropriate issue tracker (we use multiple repositories). No issue is too small.
- 2015-06: Community started on Github
- Create Github Community
- Delaware-LLC-Simple - simple governing documents for Delaware LLCs used as a root for more sophisticated forks
- Convert to markdown
- California-LLC-Simple - fork of Delaware-LLC-Simple with simple governing documents for California LLCs
- Convert to markdown
- Delaware-LLC-DAC - fork of Delaware-LLC-Simple for transition support Distributed Autotomous Organization (DAC)
- Investigate splitting of equity-related from voting related terms
- Delaware-LLC-SlicingPie - fork of Delaware-LLC-Simple with support for the Slicing Pie form of dynamic equity.
- Delaware-LLC-DynGov - fork of Delaware-LLC-Simple for basic dynamic governance (aka Sociocracy, Holacracy-Lite, etc.)