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Appropriate Digital Technology In the context of the CoLab digital technology includes software and hardware choices of digital tools to be able to carry out intended functions for example a choice of server service to host the perma.earth website or a choice...

Purpose of the design We want to create a user guide that: compiles critical information about the CoLab that is currently dispersed over multiple locations not documented make more visible the structures, policies and services we ha...

Since the International Permaculture CoLab (CoLab) is a largely self-organized entity, this user guide aims to give readers a flavor of what the CoLab is about. However, it does not capture the rich human relationships and the collaborations within, nor does i...

The International Permaculture CoLab is a self-organised, on-line Collaborative Laboratory that helps improve coherence and collaboration in the international permaculture network (and beyond). We are network of individuals, organizations, and enterprises t...

You can read about the History of the CoLab here: https://www.perma.earth/history

You can read about the Vision, Mission and Aims of the CoLab here: https://www.perma.earth/vision/

You can read about the CoLab’s governance model here: https://www.perma.earth/CoLab/ The current structure and processes are influenced by The Constellation Framework and Sociocracy 3.0.

The CoLab practices an open finance model, meaning that all working groups and enterprises operate using a publicly transparent way of managing money. The current choice of financial management tool is Open Collective, where you can see all related collectives...

CoLab members are individuals who in the first place represent themselves and actively engage in the CoLab Slack workspace. This is important because of CoLab’s flat and self-organised structure; no one individual is more or less important than any other membe...

There are a large number of projects ongoing in the International Permaculture CoLab at any one time. A current list including status of the projects, their objectives, whether they are funded or not, and who is on the team, is documented on the projects page ...

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...