Working Open statement

working-open.md

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+# Working Open
+
+Hypha operates with democratic organizing principles informed by our [values](./values.md). As part of that, we've developed a set of guidelines for how (and exactly what) and why we work in the open.
+
+## Why?
+
+- In order to share and provide opportunities for self- and collective- learning as we work in solidarity with others seeking to create meaningful livelihoods.
+- Not because "default to open" is an ideal in itself, but because it orients us toward negotiating a set of practices around our shared intentions.
+- Yet we recognize openly sharing might prevent frank and necessary discussion beneficial to our members, and so we want to clearly lay out our practices of consent and privacy.
+
+# How and what?
+
+- We currently accommodate redactions and going off-the-record for meeting notes. Participants can request to stop taking notes, or redact and correct notes after they have been taken.
+
+Legend:  
+👀  view only  
+📝  view and participate  
+
+**Default open to public**:
+
+- Scope: Organization
+  - Meeting notes (all hands, working groups) and final documents (handbook), on GitHub and other platforms 👀
+  - Aggregated financial statements 👀
+- Scope: Project
+  - Project deliverables*, task tracking, meeting notes, and aggregated financial statements 👀
+
+**This would include source repositories and code (e.g., on GitHub) and other process materials based on consensus on licensing and usage constraints.*
+
+**Default open to members**:
+
+- Scope: Organization
+  - Meeting notes and documents 📝 
+  - Task tracking, project management (PM), and decision making (DM) tools 📝 
+  - Finances (budget, expenses, and cash flow projections) and audit records 👀
+  - Potential opportunities and leads 📝 
+- Scope: Project
+  - Project proposal(s), statement(s) of work (in-progress/signed), in-progress deliverables, and finances (budget, expenses, and cash flow projections) 👀
+
+**Default closed to specific working groups and project members**:
+
+- Scope: Organization
+  - Full personal/financial information of members (e.g., home addresses, banking information, and social insurance numbers)
+  - Personal/financial information involving external parties 📝 
+  - Administration privileges including financial for services and infrastructure 📝 
+- Scope: Project
+  - Project sensitive data sets (especially all non-anonymized/identifiable) and critical infrastructure 📝 
+
+**Require consent before releasing**:
+
+- Audio, visual, and video recordings (e.g., photographs or recorded interviews)
+- Chat transcripts
+- Notes involving external parties and collaborators
+- Materials from project retrospectives