Collaborating

There are several ways in which you can contribute to this project, shaping the platform, its content, underlying model, documentation, software, governance. Here we outline ways to make this collaboration more effective. Ultimately, we aim to set up processes for a thriving, self-governed, open and inclusive community responsible for the management of CommonOutcomes, a necessary condition for commoning the modelling of change.

Co-producing content

The core of the activity happening on CommonOutcomes is to produce, improve and evaluate information about change. Tips and guidelines for creating and editing content are primordial for ensuring smooth collaboration. In addition, we are considering enable per-entity discussions to facilitate deliberation in the co-production of entities.¹

CommonOutcomes' Wiki

This wiki is destined to be co-edited by contributors to the platform. We plan to update it to reflect the current state of the project. Please send any feedback or suggestions you have about the wiki, we will endeavour to incorporate it in the next working version. Looking forward, we will allow platform users contribute to the wiki more directly.

CommonGraph

CommonOutcomes is powered by CommonGraph, a free and open source software tool whose goal is precisely to create configurable, graph-based co-production platforms. If any issue arises when using the platform, chances are that the fix will be at the software level rather than at CommonOutcomes' configuration level. You can contribute to CommonGraph by submitting issues (for bugs or requests) or pull requests directly. You can also help improve its documentation.

Open call to collaboration

We would love to hear from you if you think this platform could be useful to you and your community, or if you are interested to take part in the project in any way: online community organising and hybrid facilitation, accessibility, design, art, participatory governance, intellectual property, causality, graph theory, visualisation and database management, software engineering... all skills will be needed for CommonOutcomes to fulfil its purpose.