# 2019 Community Reorganization

**URL:** <https://community.humanetech.com/t/2019-community-reorganization/3358>\
**Category:** Vision & roadmap\
**Created:** [February 4, 2019, 3:02pm UTC](https://community.humanetech.com/t/2019-community-reorganization/3358 "2019-02-04T15:02:40Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![aschrijver](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/community.humanetech.com/aschrijver/32/1498_2.png) [@aschrijver](https://community.humanetech.com/u/aschrijver)\
**Post date:** [February 4, 2019, 3:02pm UTC](https://community.humanetech.com/t/2019-community-reorganization/3358/1 "2019-02-04T15:02:40Z")

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I dedicate this topic on finding out an intuitive reorganisation along the lines of our new vision, mission and principles, and putting the Pyramid model into play.

For reference the principles summary and pyramid model is available in th github ideation repository:

- [The Pyramids of Humane Technology](https://github.com/humanetech-community/humanetech-community-ideas/tree/master/ideas/humanetech-pyramids-framework)

And in the pinned forum announcement:

- [Be a Builder ❤ Help Improve Wellbeing, Freedom and Society !](http://community.humanetech.com/t/be-a-builder-help-improve-wellbeing-freedom-and-society/3322)

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**Author:** ![aschrijver](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/community.humanetech.com/aschrijver/32/1498_2.png) [@aschrijver](https://community.humanetech.com/u/aschrijver)\
**Post date:** [February 6, 2019, 9:37am UTC](https://community.humanetech.com/t/2019-community-reorganization/3358/2 "2019-02-06T09:37:02Z")

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# Current organization

This is a Wiki Post representing current structure, rationale behind it, and retrospective remarks.

## Rationale

- Prefered by CHT because of strategic + awareness focus as main community themes

- The subcategories under strategic pillars represent focus areas / breakdown of HT

- **Community commons** groups community-related activities

- **Time Well Spent** as familiar term refers back to TWS movement

## Structure

### Pillar - Awareness (Cultural awakening)

```
- Wellbeing
- Relationships
- Privacy
- Children
- Projects & campaigns ---> (new topics need moderator approval)

```

Notes:

- Projects & campaigns is exclusively for community-driven initiatives

Retrospecitve:

- Relationships is unclear in its exact meaning
- Wellbeing too large in scope, could have e.g. mental + physical health posed separately
- Projects & campaigns not clear what its for, or that new topics need moderator approval
- Subcategories are missing, e.g. Privacy invasion has a reason —\> advertising, etc.

### Pillar - Advocacy (Public / political pressure)

```
- Projects & Campaigns ---> (new topics need moderator approval)

```

Retrospective:

- We still focus on creating Public pressure, but leave advocating / political pressure to CHT
- We have no projects or campaigns in this category at all at the moment (some ideas exist, though)

### Pillar - Engagement (Involve employees / the workfloor)

```
- (no subcategories)

```

Retrospective:

- We want to involve technologists to help creating solutions, but the pillar will be driven by CHT

### Pillar - Humane Design (Application of HT)

```
- Defining Humane Technology
- Ethics
- Exemplars

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Retrospective:

- Defining HT subcategory leads to endless discussion to redefine us
- Ethics was added late. It is an important subject, and pervasive throughout all HT areas
- Exemplars is unclearly defined, we might just drop this, and turn into a community website section

### Community Commons

```
- Community principles
- Announcements
- Events & Meetups
- Help Wanted
- Introductions

```

Retrospective:

- Community principles needs no subcategory. It should an easy-to-find document somewhere
- Help Wanted is unclear … members asking help, job postings, community contributions needed?
- Introductions is not needed as subcategory, it basically consists of a single topic

### Time Well Spent

```
- Your Apps & Tools
- News Digest
- Recommended Reading

```

Retrospective:

- TWS meaning is unclear. We might redefine as time well spent on community-building
- Your Apps & Tools is good for HT advertisements, but ‘brutal’ feedback aspect needs more explaining
- News Digest can be removed, we can’t keep up with this anyway
- Recommended Reading is unclear, we need to solve this differently (e.g. community website + bookclub)

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**Author:** ![aschrijver](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/community.humanetech.com/aschrijver/32/1498_2.png) [@aschrijver](https://community.humanetech.com/u/aschrijver)\
**Post date:** [February 6, 2019, 11:39am UTC](https://community.humanetech.com/t/2019-community-reorganization/3358/3 "2019-02-06T11:39:56Z")

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# Strategy & requirements

This is a wiki post to discuss strategic considerations and derive requirements for the forum reorganization.

## Strategy

Core strategies:

1. **Awareness** : Raise awareness —\> **objective** : to trigger a cultural awakening
2. **Solutions** : Promote / implement humane technology —\> **objective** : ubiquitous adoption
3. **Partnering** : Strategic partners, HTC as intermediary, strengthen field —\> **objective** : divide and conquer

Secondary strategies:

- Build adoption levels / compliance criteria for each pyramid separately (i.e. pyramid building)
  - To be further elaborated individually, strategies depend on focus area

Community strategies:

- Participation is fun and rewarding. fun —\> philosophy, rewarding —\> methodology (track rewards)

## Stakeholders

- Notes:

- **Audience** and **Stakeholders** are entirely different concepts

- **Grouped by strategy** : 2 groups based on our core strategies, awareness and solutions

- **Focus on partnering** : create a Partnership Program to manage partner relations strategically

### Activists

| Name | Description | Role(s) |
| --- | --- | --- |
| **_Campaigners_** | Anyone who helps spread our message | promote, PR, activate, onboarding |
| **_Parents_** | Acting from concern for their kids, parenting | inform, educate, promote, feedback |
| **_Children_** | Next generation, those more aware than peers | inform, promote, feedback |
| **_Educators_** | Teachers, trainers, HT practicioners | participate, delegate, advise, feedback |
| **_Students_** | Pupils, students, scholars, | participate, activate, promote, feedback |
| **_Professionals_** | Marketers, designers, artists, editors, etc… | contribute, delegate, sponsor, advise |
| **_Influencers_** | Celebrities, authorities, social media influencers | promote, PR, activate, onboarding |
| **_Media_** | Journalists, writers, TV- / video-producers | promote, PR |

### Builders

| Name | Description | Role(s) |
| --- | --- | --- |
| _ **Community Team** _ | Those working for HTC in ‘official’ roles | organize |
| _ **Leaders** _ | Management skills, visionaries, architects | |
| _ **Developers** _ | Software builders, all IT roles | |
| _ **Technologists** _ | Techies in any field (incl. developers) | |
| _ **Designers** _ | Graphics design, UX, artists, animators, … | |
| _ **Researchers** _ | Scientists, PhD’s in HT-related fields | |
| _ **Documenters** _ | Those well-skilled writing manuals, tutorials | |
| _ **Maintainers** _ | Those willing to spend time keeping order | |

### Partners

Notes:

- First draft, indicative. There are many ways to cut partnership relations.
- Partners are not community members, but individuals can be.

| Name | Description | Role(s) |
| --- | --- | --- |
| _ **Communities** _ | Like-minded groups w/ overlap in HT field | cooperate, delegate |
| _ **Nonprofits** _ | NGO’s, nonprofits, foundation in HT field | |
| _ **Businesses** _ | Commercial entities in HT-related fields | |
| _ **Advisors** _ | Experts, consultants, think tanks, authorities | |
| _ **Sponsors** _ | Those contributing financially, includes donors | TBD |
| _ **Facilitators** _ | Those bringing in non-financial resources | |

## Forum requirements

- Limited number of categories + subcategories (otherwise clutters dropdown menu, confuses)
- Clarity of meaning of all names used
- Clear and concise descriptions
  - categories —\> small paragraph (for display in landing page)
  - Subcategories —\> single line of text (for display in dropdown menu)

## Proposals

Add proposals here. Prefix with a username mention

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**Author:** ![aschrijver](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/community.humanetech.com/aschrijver/32/1498_2.png) [@aschrijver](https://community.humanetech.com/u/aschrijver)\
**Post date:** [February 6, 2019, 11:41am UTC](https://community.humanetech.com/t/2019-community-reorganization/3358/4 "2019-02-06T11:41:07Z")

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# New Organization

This is a wiki post to outline the new forum structure we’ll create as part of reorganization efforts.

## Rationale

 ![humanetech-pyramids-model](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/uploads/humanetech/original/2X/1/1546cf39c8a085f98de682dc73a3f3a5086b779b.png)

- The Pyramids of Humane Technology is the framework upon which the community is based

- Individual pyramids (focus areas) serve in the breakdown structure to divide into focus groups

- The Harms of Technology are represented as a separate main category

## Structure

### Society

 ![humanetech-pyramid-of-society](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/uploads/humanetech/original/2X/5/5a7fbc41e98c4e8118cc5a06bbcfe39742daae7d.png)

| No. | Subcategory | Level | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1. | **Transparency** | _access_ | |
| 2. | **Inclusion** | _access_ | |
| 3. | **Civility** | _access_ | |
| 4. | **Digital Rights** | _protection_ | |
| 5. | **Privacy** | _protection_ | |
| 6. | **Trust** | _protection_ | |

### Wellbeing

 ![humanetech-pyramid-of-wellbeing](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/uploads/humanetech/original/2X/f/f69af4223692e7a348766233c8a2bf9299c3f01b.png)

| No. | Subcategory | Level | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 7. | **Physical health** | _health_ | |
| 8. | **Mental health** | _health_ | |
| 9. | **Parenting** | _harmony_ | |
| 10. | **Diversity** | _harmony_ | |
| 11. | **Sociability** | _harmony_ | |
| 12. | **Mindfulness** | _harmony_ | |

**Note** : Consider adding ‘Happiness’ sweet spot as separate subcategory.

### Alignment

 ![humanetech-pyramid-of-alignment](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/uploads/humanetech/original/2X/c/c90cc255ee5db3c8b1745dbe5447172fea3f3598.png)

| No. | Subcategory | Level | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 13. | **Ethics** | _discovery_ | |
| 14. | **Humane design** | _discovery_ | |
| 15. | **Sustainable business** | _discovery_ | |
| 16. | **Open standards** | _adoption_ | |
| 17. | **Governance** | _adoption_ | |
| 18. | **Decentralization** | _adoption_ | |

### Harms

 ![humanetech-harms-of-technology](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/uploads/humanetech/original/2X/3/35e744b6b6b37997a15573518d848ca19f7c8c1b.png)

| No. | Subcategory | Description |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 19. | **Alignment** | |
| 20. | **Society** | |
| 21. | **Wellbeing** | |
| 22. | **Freedom** | |

### Focus

 ![humanetech-community-focus](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/uploads/humanetech/original/2X/c/cd572d3a5ed79c73001d53ff7451e2d84d5bdcab.png)

| No. | Subcategory | Description |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 23. | **Awareness** | |
| 24. | **Solutions** | |
| 25. | **Education** | |
| 26. | **Research** | |
| 27. | **Parners** | |

### Central

 ![humanetech-community-central](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/uploads/humanetech/original/2X/b/b9a258642b099abd667f4ff5105491c7db509301.png)

| No. | Subcategory | Description |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 28. | **Roadmap & vision** | |
| 29. | **Announcements** | |
| 30. | **Events & meetups** | |
| 31. | **Judge My App** | |
| 32. | **I Need Help** | |
| 33. | **Feedback** | |

  

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### Freedom

 ![humanetech-pyramid-of-freedom](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/uploads/humanetech/original/2X/4/408a9f419b6a2066d3e3c9a9117c84743f0e37c7.png)

**Note** : Moved this pyramid last in the row temporarily, as it is not yet well defined..

```
- Collaboration
- Growth
- Innovation
- Evolution

```

| No. | Level | Subcategory | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |