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\title{Guidelines for Open Organizations}

\author{Toni Prug, \href{mailto:toni@irational.org}{toni@irational.org}}

\date{ Version 0.2.1 \\ Date: 13 June 2002 }

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\begin{abstract}
This document provides an overview of some practical guidelines for organisations using
the Open Organizations framework.
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\section{Status of this Memo}

This memo provides information for the Internet community.  It does not specify an
official standard of any kind, and does not necessarily represent the views of anyone
other than its authors. Distribution of this memo is unlimited.

\section{An Open Organization}

One of definitions is that an organization is a tool to collectively do work and achieve
something. Here we are extracting from practice what it is that makes an organization
open. An Open Organization should set, or distill from its practice, its objectives,
scope, functional principles and decision making.

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\item[Objective] is what an organization is there for. (the framework itself has certain
objectives outlined in Open Organizations: A Framework\footnote{
\href{http://www.open-organizations.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/OpenOrgFramework}{http://www.open-organizations.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/OpenOrgFramework}}

\item[Scope] is the range of activities that the organisation is intended to engage in.

\item[Functional Principles] are core principles on which work in an organization is
based. They can be based on Guidelines for Volunteer Working Groups\footnote{
\href{http://www.open-organizations.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/OpenOrgGuideWgr}{http://www.open-organizations.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/OpenOrgGuideWgr}}.
Other principles can be added as long as they do not contradicte xisting ones.

\item[Decision Making] can be based on Guideliness on On-line Consensus Decision
Making\footnote{
\href{http://www.open-organizations.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/OpenOrgGuideConsensus}{http://www.open-organizations.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/OpenOrgGuideConsensus}}.

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Optionally geographical location and geographical work area can be set too:

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\item[Geographical Location] is where an organization is based. 

\item[Geographical Work Area] is where people involved can come from. For example, an
organization can be based in Belfast, but because of functional principles and decision
making used in an Open Organization, it is not neccesarry that people live in close
proximity, so geographical work area can be Nothern Ireland, Nothern Hemisphere, Europe or
whatever one likes.

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\section{The Written Charter}

An Open Organization must have a written charter that must be posted to a publicly
archived mailing list. For example, implementing some guidelines from the set of documents
that describe this framework in a single document should suffice to form a charter.

\section{Participation}

An Open Organization is open to anyone who agrees to its objectives and charter.
Diversity of working practices (how to conduct work) is a matter of individual choice as
long it does not hinder other members of the organization from doing work.

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