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Social coding commons

Section titled “Social coding commons”

Introduction to Prosperity guilds

2026-10-19
2 Pencil sketch of 'Komona design with arena' by David Revoy in inverted colors.

Prosperity guilds

Section titled “Prosperity guilds”

(Image: “Komona design with arena” by David Revoy CC-BY, colors inverted)
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🗓️ agenda

Section titled “🗓️ agenda”
  • wicked problems
  • prosperity guilds
  • solid foundations
  • organic growth?
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💞 where are we today?

Section titled “💞 where are we today?”
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🎁 free software & culture

Section titled “🎁 free software & culture”
  • small project
  • large project
  • developer ecosystem

  • small community
  • broad community
  • grassroots commons
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🌪️ grassroots movements

Section titled “🌪️ grassroots movements”

  • fragmented
  • self-centered
  • disorganized
  • contentious

💥 unsustainable

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😵 oops! we must
account for chaotic
🌱 grassroots dynamics

Section titled “😵 oops! we mustaccount for chaotic 🌱 grassroots dynamics”
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❌ FOSS → ✅ SOSS

Section titled “❌ FOSS → ✅ SOSS”

Sustainable O pen Social

Software → S ystems → Services → Solutions

Free software development lifecycle,
Fediverse solution delivery lifecycle (FSDL)
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🌱 prosperity guilds

Section titled “🌱 prosperity guilds”

” a chaordic organization formula to foster optimal conditions for commons participation to deliver valuable services in a commons based value economy. “
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🌱 prosperity guilds

Section titled “🌱 prosperity guilds”
  • grow commons, mimic nature
  • emergence, order from chaos
  • mycelia, synergetic networks
  • mushrooms, organic growth
  • inspired by sociocracy 3.0
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🌱 prosperity guilds

Section titled “🌱 prosperity guilds”
  • collaboration circles
  • service development
  • service delivery
  • value exchange
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🌱 what is a guild?

Section titled “🌱 what is a guild?”
  • synergetic collaboration space
  • small initiatives as members
  • strategic alliance between peers
  • shared values, mission, purpose
  • collective service development
  • self organising adhocracy
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🌱 guild characteristics

Section titled “🌱 guild characteristics”
  • inherently sustainable
  • intrinsic motivation
  • natural evolution
  • organic growth
  • joyful creation
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♻️ guild lifecycle

Section titled “♻️ guild lifecycle”

  • seeding growth conditions

  • inception members join

  • evolution value is added

  • dispersal value scatters

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🌻 inherent sustainability

Section titled “🌻 inherent sustainability”
Diagram that shows three circles depicting states of a Prosperity guild. If there are no members, but there are interested candidates, then guild inception is posible. As soon as one or more candidates become member, the guild is established. However if members grow too large or become unaligned such that sustainability criteria aren't met, then the guild is unsustainable, and no new candidates can join until sustainability is re-estabishled, according to the sustainability-first principle.
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🧮 value exchange

Section titled “🧮 value exchange”
Diagram that shows how service exchange takes place in a Commons based value economy based on Prosperity guilds. The members of a guild offer Member services to each other, offer Guild services to other guilds on the basis of mutualistic value exchange, and offer Public services to external parties via the Solution supply chain that is part of service development.
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🍄 evolution & growth

Section titled “🍄 evolution & growth”
Diagram that shows Social coding foundations, consisting of four Foundational guilds, respectively called re:Connect, re:Create, re:Grow, and re:Imagine. The foundational guilds provide SX practices to nourish the Prosperity guilds network, and may join other guilds as members. Guilds return guidance back in the form of SX recipes.
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🌌 foundational guilds

Section titled “🌌 foundational guilds”

  • re:connect people

  • re:create software

  • re:grow value economy

  • re:imagine social

evolve commons foundations

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🧙 sx formula’s

Section titled “🧙 sx formula’s”
Diagram showing concepts of Social coding commons affiliation & cocreation network. It depicts how Foundational guilds evolve the SX formula's so that an emerging commons based ecosystem is able to engage and participate in the Commons based value economy. Three guilds are shown, called re:Grow, re:Create, and re:Connect, who each foster two SX formula's. The results are self-sustainable solutions & services, an affiliation and cocreation network, and diverse cultural & prosocial spaces.
20 Pencil sketch of 'Mushroom House' by David Revoy, in inverted colors.

🫂 re:connect guild

Section titled “🫂 re:connect guild”

(Image: “Mushroom house” by David Revoy CC-BY, colors inverted)
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🐣 inception

Section titled “🐣 inception”
Snapshot of re:Connect guild, a commons-only section on the Discourse forum, showing the sub-categories Sustainability, Opportunities, Convergence, Services, followed by three guild candidates. They are Outreach matters, Robodreams, and Protosocial.
re:connect guild
Snapshot of Outreach matters formula, a commons-only section on the Discourse forum, showing the sub-categories Commons cohesion, Commons participation, Grassroots campaigns, and Service delivery as domains to be elaborated.
outreach matters formula

👾 nudge. guild actor. tool emulation
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🎯 evolution path

Section titled “🎯 evolution path”
  • sustainability plan & mvp
  • align techstack & toolstack
  • collaborative work methods
  • self-sustainable members
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🔭 scoped focus

Section titled “🔭 scoped focus”

  • sustainable

  • collaboration

  • opportunity

  • potential

  • evolution

  • design

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✨ opportunity track

Section titled “✨ opportunity track”
  • what can we achieve together?
  • what’s the potential value?
  • how do we maximize potential?
  • how can we reap the value?
  • who do we need to participate?
  • when is the best time to act?
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🧲 convergence

Section titled “🧲 convergence”
  • strategic outreach matters
  • develop comms channels
  • attraction, alignment, activation
  • candidates for member intake?
  • triple wins to maximise synergy
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💡 service development

Section titled “💡 service development”
  • where are we now?
  • where do we want to be?
  • what are our needs?
  • what opportunities exist?
  • what can we offer?
  • how can we align?
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🪜 responsible growth

Section titled “🪜 responsible growth”
  • growth objectives?
  • sustainability criteria
  • methods, habits & culture
  • guiding & nourishing
  • sustenance first!
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⭕ innercircle center

Section titled “⭕ innercircle center”
  • custodian initiative
  • evolution underway

  • by @smallcircles


  • ‘sustainability plan’
  • ‘dreamwalking guide’
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🐣 taking stock

Section titled “🐣 taking stock”
  • getting started how-to?
  • participation chicken/egg
  • value creation synergies?
  • what do we prioritize?

  • fostering emergence → 🌅