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Charte de raison d'être

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Raison d'être principale

Why does this community exist — in one sentence that will still be true in ten years?

Clauses RCOS 2.1.1, 2.1.2, 2.1.5
  • 2.1.1 Une communauté DOIT définir exactement une raison d'être principale.
  • 2.1.2 La raison d'être principale DOIT décrire la raison durable de l'existence de la communauté et NE DOIT PAS être un objectif à court terme, un projet ou une stratégie.
  • 2.1.5 Aucune action, décision ou allocation de ressources NE PEUT contredire matériellement la raison d'être principale déclarée.
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  • If we could keep only one reason for existing, what would it be?
  • Would it still be true in ten years, after our current projects are finished or dropped?
  • Is it a lasting reason — not a project, a strategy or a goal we could one day tick off?
  • Is it clear enough that we could tell when a decision, or a way of spending our time or money, goes against it?

Exemples

We exist so that the people who live here can share land, homes and daily work in a way that leaves the soil, the water and our neighbours better off than we found them.

Des exemples, pas des recommandations. Vos réponses vous appartiendront.

Raisons d'être secondaires

What secondary purposes do we pursue — without competing with why we exist?

Clauses RCOS 2.1.4
  • 2.1.4 Des raisons d'être secondaires PEUVENT être définies, mais NE DOIVENT PAS entrer en conflit avec la raison d'être principale ni la supplanter.
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  • Besides our primary purpose, what other concrete outcomes do we work towards — if any?
  • For each one: could it ever pull time, money or people away from our primary purpose — and if it could, is it really secondary?
  • Do we say plainly that when a secondary purpose clashes with our primary purpose, the primary purpose wins?

Exemples

Alongside our primary purpose we pursue three secondary purposes: keeping homes affordable for members on modest incomes, running an open tool library for the neighbourhood, and sharing what we learn about living cooperatively at two open days a year. None of these may override our primary purpose; if one conflicts with it, the primary purpose takes precedence and the secondary purpose is scaled back or dropped.

Des exemples, pas des recommandations. Vos réponses vous appartiendront.

Non-objectifs et exclusions

What are we deliberately not, however tempting it becomes?

Clauses RCOS 2.1.5
  • 2.1.5 Aucune action, décision ou allocation de ressources NE PEUT contredire matériellement la raison d'être principale déclarée.
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  • What might outsiders or new members assume we are, that we are not — a political party, a business, a religious group, a charity?
  • Which tempting directions have come up before, or are likely to, that we want to rule out now?
  • For each one: is it worded clearly enough that anyone could point to an activity and say it crosses the line?

Exemples

We are not a political party, and we do not endorse candidates or campaigns as a community. We are not an investment vehicle: no one joins to earn a return, and shared assets are never managed to make a profit for members. We are not a religious or spiritual group, and no belief or practice is expected of anyone who takes part.

Des exemples, pas des recommandations. Vos réponses vous appartiendront.

Conditions de modification de la raison d'être

What would it take to change why we exist — and who would have to agree?

Clauses RCOS 2.1.3
  • 2.1.3 La raison d'être principale DOIT être stable dans le temps et NE DOIT être modifiée que par une décision constitutionnelle telle que définie dans la Couche 2 et exécutée via le processus de modification défini dans la Couche 6.
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  • Do we treat changing our primary purpose as one of our highest-level (constitutional) decisions, rather than an ordinary one?
  • How many people have to agree, and who counts — all members, full members only, or those who vote?
  • How long must we wait between the decision and the change taking effect?
  • Where is the change recorded, so that the old and the new wording both stay visible?
  • Do our secondary purposes need the same bar to change, or a lower one?

Exemples

Changing the primary purpose is a constitutional decision. The proposal must be shared 30 days before the vote, and it passes only with at least two thirds of the votes cast by full members, with at least half of all full members voting. The change takes effect after a further 30 days and is recorded, together with the previous wording, in our version history. Secondary purposes can be changed by an ordinary community decision.

Des exemples, pas des recommandations. Vos réponses vous appartiendront.

Registre de ratification

Who adopted this charter, when, and how was it decided?

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