fyi about the enspiral governance model


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From: Dante-Gabryell Monson <dante.monson@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, Mar 6, 2015 at 8:53 AM
Subject: Becoming an Enspiral Venture
To: "econowmix@googlegroups.com" <econowmix@googlegroups.com>, "op-n-m@googlegroups.com" <op-n-m@googlegroups.com>



also see this post on Loomio about Reciprocity Licenses :

Simon :

" Scoop (a news organisation in NZ) has become an enspiral venture and apparently uses something like a CBRL for use of its content "

Bob asking to Simon :

how did Scoop become an enspiral venture? (That’s interesting in itself, as an example of software ecosystem evolution.)

Simon's reply :

They went through the process described at https://github.com/enspiral/agreements/blob/master/agreements/ventures.md#becoming-an-enspiral-venture



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Becoming an Enspiral Venture

Process:

  1. New company writes a company introduction based on the existing template
  2. Their introduction is posted in the members Loomio, to let members know about them and provide a space for discussion, questions, comments, etc (no proposal yet).
  3. A one month “getting to know” you phase starts, which goes both ways of them getting to know us and us getting to know them. New company people come on G+ and Loomio, members make an effort to talk to them, meet for coffee, etc, and they ask any questions and clarify the value proposition and values fit on both sides.
  4. We ask the company if they definitely want to join, and if so, a proposal is started in the above Loomio discussion for members to officially approve or not.
  5. If approved (by consensus - with 75% member engagement), the company and the Foundation officially determine the contribution relationship (revenue share, etc).
  6. We have a welcome celebration!

Being an Enspiral Venture

Give

  1. Revenue share - choose % and $ cap and rate
  2. Engagement with the Network
    • Transparency, we share data and internal information with each other.
    • Reporting, we take the time to summarise our activities and update the Network.
    • Communications, reps from each company are active with core comms, including Loomio, responding to requests from News, and Google+
    • Ventures also offer the network other in kind contributions as they wish.

Receive

  • Benefits described above
  • Profile on enspiral.com website
  • Represent as an official enspiral company
  • Full use of enspiral.com backend
  • Company Box access

Special Types of Ventures

There are three additional types of Enspiral Ventures which have slightly different relationships with the network.

Enspiral Services Teams

Enspiral Services Limited houses multiple teams who share a common legal structure to increase collaboration and reduce overheads. Some of those teams may apply to be full ventures in their own right. The ones that do act as individual ventures in every other way and the fact they part of Enspiral Services is more of a legal footnote than a substantive difference.

Enspiral Branded Ventures

An Enspiral Branded Venture behaves like a regular venture except it carries the Enspiral name in its title and uses the Enspiral logo as part of its core identity. The shared branding has additional benefits and risks to the network so they have a few more criteria

  • All staff (directors and employees - excluding external contractors) must be Enspiral Contributors
  • If the venture ever leaves the network they must remove any Enspiral branding from their name or logo

Enspiral Owned Companies

An Enspiral owned company (eg Enspiral Spaces) is wholly owned by the Enspiral Foundation and are assets that are collectively held by the network.





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