DruForum Purpose & Principles

Shared commitment to our purpose and principles is a critical part of what binds the DruForum community together. The DruForum Commons is a community of individuals representing themselves, and/or a variety of organizational entities. Each individual and/or organizational entity is one of the following classes of stakeholders:

Membership types:
The Organization is the Member and Individuals inherit membership from the organization. Founding and Customer Member types are also Owner Members.

• Founding Member – the original Customer Members who will specify and fund the initial development of the product. Founding Members, may be entitled to recoup some of their original investment if the groups so provides for this.
• Developer Member – Members who will participate in the development of the product, share in the revenue, and [potentially] compete for customizations and implementations. These members will be the resources available to Owner Members and allow the further development of the product and the continued support – regardless of whether any one developer remains available for maintenance of their original code. All code will belong to the group.
• Advisory Member – Members who are interested in the group and wish to participate.
• Customer Member

The Avectra Users Group (AUG) will be the Managing Member and will be entitled to a management fee if the group so provides. The AUG itself is not a Founding or Owning Member. However, members of the Board of Directors of the AUG are entitled to be Founding and/or Owning Members.

Basic Precepts:

1. All Customer Members (Founding members are Owning members) are entitled to one vote per organization on all matters brought up to vote. Developers and Advisory Members, and the Managing Member (AUG) are not entitled to vote. However, all members are entitled to the same benefits otherwise.
2. Members of the DruForum Commons agree to pioneer new ways to organize that are based on the power of collaborative networking.
3. Collaborative networking is based on the conscious development of mutually interdependent and trusted relationships between individuals. This entails the equitable ownership and governance of the organization by its members and an equitable distribution of resources, authority and power throughout the organization.
4. Members also agree to advance deeply shared purposes, and foster the common good of its members. In addition, DruForum members agree to share in the governance of the commons and at all times to promote its well being as a community.

The DruForum commons is purpose-centered and principle-based. The common purpose that all members share is:
1. To design and develop a baseline set of functionality in Drupal which is object and modularly designed.
2. To provide ‘connectors’ from the Drupal modules and objects to similar objects in netFORUM.
3. To ensure that funding is appropriately applied to the development of such modules and objects that provide for the common good of all Owner Members.

Rights and Responsibilities of membership - Members of the DruForum commons have:

1. The responsibility to manage and update your own profile and data.
2. The opportunity to observe, initiate or participate in the activities of the commons.
3. Access to the common properties of the commons.
4. Access to and participation in the community of members.
5. The right to use the commons’ marks.
6. The right and responsibility to participate in the governance of the commons.

Principles of practice - Members observe the following principles when participating in activities of the commons:

1. All members agree to provide sufficient information about themselves to enable members to identify each other and to develop relationships with other members based on trust and reputation in order to advance their purpose for being a member.
2. All activities between members are voluntary unless and until a specific commercial agreement has been undertaken between a consenting group of members.
3. Freely and fully exchange information, knowledge, emotion, wisdom, referral, and transformational opportunities relevant to the purpose and principles unless doing so violates confidentiality or materially diminishes competitive position.
4. Be open to membership by any individual or institution subscribing to the purpose and principles in conducting activities of the DRUFORUM commons.
5. Have the right to self-organize at any time, on any scale, in any form, for any activity consistent with the purpose and principles.
6. Conduct deliberations and make decisions by bodies and methods that reasonably represent all relevant and affected parties and are dominated by none.
7. Vest authority, perform functions, and use resources in the smallest or most local part that includes all relevant and affected parties.
8. Work collaboratively, to the maximum degree possible.
9. Behave in a manner, which engenders sustainable, mutually interdependent and trusting relationships.
10. Work to ensure interdependent health and diversity of individuals, communities, institutions, cultures and other life forms.
11. Work to ensure that human capacities, technologies and organizations sustain and support, not systemically alter, degrade or destroy, the earth, its diversity of life or life support systems.
12. Resolve conflict creatively and cooperatively without physical, economic, psychological, social, or ecological violence.
13. Agree to not enter into any agreement, arrangement or understanding with any other party that would in any way conflict or interfere with these Principles or that would prevent any member from performing any duties in the interest of the commons.
14. Conduct themselves with utmost integrity and morality in all dealings with, or on behalf of the commons.
15. Respect the legal rights of all holders of copyright at all times.