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What’s the difference between a Circle and a working group? Circles are defined by their more formalised status, normally including the following have a defined circle vision aligned with the CoLab VMAs have a circle agreement outlining how people c...

When you find a working group / circle / project / micro-enterprise that you want to join, the first step is to review the information about that group. In general all groups should communicate clearly whether they are open (anyone can join), open by invitati...

Creating something new is always an exciting process. The CoLab’s ethos is to encourage collaboration and new activity. The only overarching requirement for creation is centered around agreement with the CoLab VMAs.  For more formal set-ups there are some ad...

All circles, projects and working groups may dissolve over time. It may be that some functions those groups were fulfilling will be taken up by other groups, or may be transformed into something new. We encourage groups to communicate to the general circle wh...

The International Permaculture CoLab pays for services: From the Digital Circle, to provide working groups, project and circles with the following services: Nextcloud accounts for document storage, creation, editing and sharing Access to a central e...

You can read the CoLab’s Code of Conduct here.

In addition to what is documented here in this user guide, the Funding Circle may put in place safe-guarding policies when administering grants. An example of such a policy is the Community Accountability Policy in place for the Next Steps Project. Similarly a...

The Slack admins facilitate adding members to the workspace, managing shared channel requests and archiving channels when necessary. They also enforce the Vibrant Active Space policy which can be found here: https://www.perma.earth/maintaining-a-vibrant-and-ac...

All CoLab members can contribute to the CoLab social media accounts, send a message to the #coLab-communications-engagement channel to find out how best to do this. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/pcCoLab/ Youtube; https://www.youtube.com/channel/...

The internal mailing list includes: CoLab members: defined here as all members of the CoLab Slack as per the above Other mailing lists may be created as a tool for specific projects eg: Next Steps Contributors / Emergent Festival Participants etc. Exter...