Working Groups

Status: Proposed

Working groups are the basic operational entities of the Metagovernance Project.

Purpose

Working groups (or just groups) are the basic operational entities of the Metagovernance Project. They are active collaborations that contribute to the core mission, ranging from 2-3 people working on research papers to large 20-person teams working on a software project. You don’t have to form a working group to collaborate with other people in the Metagov community! But becoming a formal working group is a way to participate in our shared resources, including:

• Publication on the Metagov website
• Use of the Metagov legal and financial infrastructure
• Opportunities to coordinate and collaborate with other working groups, including at meetings of the core group

Further, leading a successful group (formal or informal) is one of the criteria for being elected a member of the core group, the primary research and coordinating body of the Metagovernance Project.

To start an informal working group, just join the Metagov Slack and start working with someone. For most people just joining the Metagov community, we recommend the informal route.

To start a formal working group, apply here. The application takes about 15 minutes.

Existing working groups

See this doc. (THIS NEEDS TO BE ADDED)

Application

To start a formal working group, use the Google Form. To start an informal working group, just start a Slack channel or message someone.

Decision criteria

The core group uses the following criteria to evaluate working group applications:

1. Does the project synergize with the Metagov mission and other working groups?
2. Have participants already been engaged in the Metagov community and demonstrated collegiality?