Track curator, Liz Barry, presents the arc of this track and will ask everyone to do super short introductions of themselves.

We will explore a few ways to make community governance visible to itself and put different models into communication with each other.

We will combine formal statecharts that model who holds what role and how power transitions, and structured "Talk to the Stewards" interviews that surface a community's living knowledge as narrative maps, needs assessments, and opportunity catalogs. These two models shown side by side act as a toolkit any group can fork for their own governance work.

We will also explore two other governance visualisation models including Nathan Schneider's Community Rule and Sohyeon Hwang's Governance Cards.

Hosted by Liz Barry and mai ishikawa sutton.

Liz will share parts of UC Boulder Professor and MedLab leader Nathan Schneider's forthcoming book about the deep roots of protocols that generated today's institutions and how you can work with protocols to create the institutions of the future.

mai will also share some writing, then open the floor to others to read aloud their own writings or share other pieces that they love and want to share.

This is a panel of long-running movement builders from Free Software campaigning, platform cooperatives, rural deliberative governance, and cross-sector bridging work. These folks will share what worked, what broke, and what they'd do differently to help others in designing campaigns, cooperatives, and coalitions that are shaping change in society.

Speakers on the panel include:

Matthias Kirschner (Free Software Foundation Europe) presenting on "Public Money? Public Code!" (PMPC), a movement started in 2017, that has been one of the most successful campaigns for digital rights. Matthias will unpack the specific choices that let a single campaign framework grow into a movement of more than 200 civil society organizations and over 39,000 individuals worldwide.

Guil Maueler (Regens Unite) brings five years of gathering climate activists, cooperators, DAO builders, ReFi protocols, DeSci collectives, artists, and policy nerds into the same room.

Olivier Schulbaum (Platoniq Foundation, Democratic Tech Fund) will share about solidarity funding infrastructure Goteo.rg, drawing lessons from 15 years of supporting community-led initiatives through crowdfunding, matchfunding, and what we now frame as "crowdvocacy." Concrete cases he'll discuss include street vendors’ organising, La Nuestra, a testimonial digital archive against gender-based violence, and emerging models from renters and care workers such as Las Kellys.

Ray Xiang closes the loop with Nantang, a rural reconstruction community in China with more than 20 years of cooperative organizing, whose experiments with mutual aid, local deliberation, and — more recently — DAO governance and digital identity tools show both the promise and the fragility of building shared rules, records, and trust in a living, ordinary community.

This panel is a working conversation about the thin, hard-won connective tissue between movements that share goals but rarely share a table.

The DWeb community has been out in the world, trying things. Some are working. Others… not so much.

This choose-your-own-adventure session will start with brief intros to two workshops focused on patterns that work:

• 4 Key Elements for Effective Community Governance Organizations
• Entanglement by Design

Followed by intros to two workshops focused on how things go wrong:

• Anti-patterns of Exit to Community in Web3
• Wins, Wreckage, and Wisdom: How Projects Survive (and Why They Don’t)

We will then all gather back together for a FishBowl session (a lively and participatory rotating panel discussion) to share noticings, ahas and inspirations.

Help architect the seed of a vibrant general social movement to co-create a decent world.