# Workflow for Social Coding Movement

**URL:** <https://discuss.coding.social/t/workflow-for-social-coding-movement/78>\
**Category:** Outreach square 🫂\
**Created:** [June 19, 2022, 8:28pm UTC](https://discuss.coding.social/t/workflow-for-social-coding-movement/78 "2022-06-19T20:28:53Z")\
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**Post date:** [October 9, 2022, 4:26pm UTC](https://discuss.coding.social/t/workflow-for-social-coding-movement/78/3 "2022-10-09T16:26:38Z")

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Doug Belshaw mentioned a great tool to figure out some important things to get the Social Coding Movement, the co-shared community parts, going:

## [Architecture of Participation](https://weareopen.coop/aop/)

[![Overview of Architecture for Participation](https://discuss.coding.social/uploads/default/original/1X/f92de4935c7f3244408cf570e6cbd2e466ef8560.png)](https://weareopen.coop/aop/)

The term comes from Tim O’Reilly: _“I’ve come to use the term “the architecture of participation” to describe the nature of systems that are designed for user contribution”_. Doug mentions the following 8 points to give due attention to:

1. **A clear mission** — why does this project exist? what is it setting out to achieve?
2. **An invitation to participate** — do you have an unambiguous call to action?
3. **Easy onboarding** — are there small, simple tasks/activities that new volunteers can begin with?
4. **A modular approach** — do volunteers have to commit to helping with _everything_, or is there a way which they can use their knowledge, skills, and interests to contribute to part of the project?
5. **Strong leadership** — do the people in control of the project embody the mission? do they have the respect of volunteers? have they got the capacity to make the project a success?
6. **Ways of working openly and transparently** — does the project have secret areas, or is everything out in the open?
7. **Backchannels and watercoolers** — are there ‘social’ spaces for members of the project to interact over and above those focused on project aims?
8. **Celebration of milestones** — does the project recognise the efforts and input of volunteers?

Here is some more background by Laura Hilliger:

> **[HOWTO: Create an Architecture of Participation for your Charity project](https://web.archive.org/web/20260211050811/https://blog.weareopen.coop/howto-create-an-architecture-of-participation-for-your-charity-project/)**
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> In the Catalyst Definition Programme, we’re going to be helping charities use some of our favorite tools and methods to try and define…

Developed by [Doug Belshaw](https://dougbelshaw.com) for [We Are Open Co-op](https://weareopen.coop), licensed CC-BY.

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