Acordo de Associação

O que abordar

• Which membership state does someone hold the moment they sign this agreement — named exactly as in our Membership State Registry?
• Does everyone sign at the same point, or can signing happen at different stages — and which state does each signing give?
• How does the person see, before they sign, which state they are agreeing to enter?

Exemplos

Anyone who signs this agreement after their application is approved becomes a Trial Member on the day they sign. They become a Full Member only when their onboarding completion is recorded; signing alone never makes someone a Full Member.

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O que abordar

• For each membership state: which rights does a member in that state hold?
• Which rights hold for everyone, in every state — such as raising a concern without retaliation, or leaving at any time?
• Do the rights of each state match what we ask of that state, so that the more we ask, the more protection and say a member has?
• Where a right is set in another document — voting in the Decision Matrix, roles in the Role Registry — do we point to it rather than write it twice?

Exemplos

Every member, in any state, may raise a conflict through the Conflict Resolution Ladder without retaliation, read the community's governance records, and leave at any time. Trial Members may also join all meetings and propose agenda items. Full Members may additionally vote on decisions as set out in the Decision Matrix, hold roles listed in the Role Registry, and propose changes to any agreement. Full Members carry the work rota and shared costs, so they also hold the vote that Trial Members do not.

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O que abordar

• For each obligation: what exactly is asked, and how would a member know whether they are meeting it?
• Where does each obligation stop — how much, how often, for how long?
• Which documented right does each obligation correspond to? (The rights themselves are their own question.)
• Which obligations apply in every membership state, and which only in some?
• Is there anything we quietly expect of members that is not written down — and should we write it down or drop it?

Exemplos

Every member keeps to our identity constraints, takes part in a conflict process when named as a party, does not speak for the community in public without a mandate from the general meeting, and does not use community money or accounts beyond the authority a role gives them. Each obligation is matched by a right in this agreement, such as the right to a fair process and to hold roles. Nothing else may be required of a member unless this list is changed by decision.

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O que abordar

• Which forms of contribution do we recognise?
• How much is enough — how many contributions, of which kinds, over what period?
• May someone send a stand-in, or pay someone to do their share — for which tasks, and who stays responsible?
• How does someone tell us they will be away, and for how long can expectations be paused?
• After how long without participation, and without notice, does an accountability process start — and who starts it? (What that process does is set in the Conflict Resolution Ladder.)

Exemplos

We recognise four forms of contribution: work-days on the land, cooking for shared meals, facilitating or taking minutes at meetings, and tasks from the maintenance rota. Each member contributes at least 8 hours a month across any of these. A member may swap a task with another member, but may not pay an outsider to do their share. Expectations pause for up to 3 months if the member tells the membership steward in advance. Two consecutive months below the minimum without notice opens an accountability check.

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O que abordar

• Which documents protect a member against removal, suspension or restricted access — and does this agreement name each one?
• In one or two plain sentences, what do we promise here, so that nobody is removed or restricted under a rule they were never shown?
• How does a member reading this agreement find the current version of those documents?

Exemplos

No member can be removed, suspended or have their access restricted except through the processes in our Conflict Resolution Ladder and our Exit & Separation Protocol. Both are linked from this agreement. No rule that is not written in one of those two documents can be used against a member.

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O que abordar

• What is the act of agreeing — a signature, a confirmation in our tools, or saying so at a meeting and having it minuted?
• Which documents, and which versions of them, is someone agreeing to at that moment — and how do they see those exact versions?
• How do we make sure the agreement is given freely and knowingly — for example, time to read and ask questions first? (Where the record is kept is its own question.)

Exemplos

A new member agrees by signing the Membership Agreement in our members' app, after a meeting where they could ask questions. The signing screen lists every document they are agreeing to, with its version number and a link to that exact version, and the signature is dated.

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