Open by default
Founding documents
The working assumptions, source census, architecture and development direction of the Civic Commons are public so they can be questioned, corrected and improved.
Read them here.
These are first-class Civic Commons pages. The underlying Markdown remains version-controlled publicly, but you do not need GitHub to read the project’s founding record.
Source Register — v0.3The borough-wide census of feeds, civic organisations, gaps and candidate integrations.
Technical Architecture — v0.1The original architecture, provenance rules, open outputs and development assumptions.
Partner ProspectusWhy the Commons exists, how partnership should work and what success should mean.
Open Social PhaseThe current development direction: participation begins now while external integrations and partnership conversations continue in parallel.