Charter+&+Procedures


 * Page stewards:** Aldo de Moor, Larry Stillman, Steve Thompson

The CIRN Commons is a key resource owned and maintained by the CIRN community. This page describes the Charter and Procedures by which the development and use of this resource are governed.

Like the contents of the commons itself, the procedures will change over time. If you have suggestions, please do not edit this page directly, leave that to the admins. Instead please use the discussion tab (above) to discuss the procedures. When we have consensus we'll write them up.

=Charter=


 * 1) The CIRN Commons should be a useful and dynamic resource of all the information that CIRN members need in their community informatics research and practice. It is developed for the members, //**by**// the members.
 * 2) The common information in this resource is owned by the community as a whole. Personal information is owned by the individual members.
 * 3) Information from the KB is public and can be shared with third parties provided that the source of this knowledge is appropriately cited.
 * 4) Everybody who is a member of the CIRN community may become a member of the CIRN KB. To determine whether somebody is a CIRN community member, one should be invited by a current member.
 * 5) Every CIRN KB member should respect the CI Code of Ethics. [add link] as well as the principles outlined in the Charter and Procedures.
 * 6) CIRN KB members are expected to
 * 7) supply and update their personal information.
 * 8) contribute to the development of the common knowledge resources. They should do so within their capabilities in order to fairly divide the workload and to ensure the legitimacy of the developed resources..
 * 9) CIRN KB functionalities and information resources are developed in consensus. In case of conflict, a solution should first be sought in a discussion by the members involved. If this does not resolve the conflict, community members not involved in the dispute will be asked to mediate.

=**Procedures**=


 * 1) Participants can play three different roles: members, admins, and stewards.
 * 2) Every participant is a member. Each participant can volunteer to play one or more admin or steward roles. Each role can be played by one or more participants. If more than one participant plays a particular role (e.g. an admin or page steward role), the collective of people playing that role should make decisions in consensus.
 * 3) //Members// can read all pages. They undertake to maintain and monitor their own pages and discussions Here's How. They provide suggestions for the improvement of other pages through the respective discussion pages.
 * 4) //Admins// are responsible for the maintenance and development of the functionality of the overall wiki. They undertake to monitor ALL discussions and ALL page changes/additions. Here's How
 * 5) //Stewards// maintain and develop the content and functionality of a particular page, assisted by the admins where needed.
 * 6) Do not make any edits on personal profile or project pages. Make suggestions for improvement in the page discussion.
 * 7) If you see a minor error such as a typo or spelling mistake on common pages fix it, perhaps dropping a note into the page discussion explaining what you did.
 * 8) Do not make more than minor edits on common pages of which you are not a steward, unless the pages are meant to be explicitly developed by the community as a whole. You can always make suggestions for improvement in the page discussion.