Community-owned knowledge
These articles are collectively maintained by the community. They represent our evolving understanding of cooperation, governance, and how we work together. Every concept is open to discussion and improvement.
In TogetherOS, a coordinator is a role that implements collective decisions. Unlike traditional leaders, coordinators execute the will of the community.
Decisions pass when no one has fundamental objections, not when everyone agrees. This protects minority voices while enabling action.
The ability to hold multiple perspectives and question automatic responses. Essential for unlearning division and learning coordination.
Your way to say "this matters!" SP earns attention and priority for proposals — not decision power, but voice in what gets focus. Cannot be bought or traded.
TogetherOS has functional coordination (someone manages tasks) but not power hierarchy (someone rules over others).
Any coordinator can be recalled (removed) by the community at any time. This ensures accountability and prevents entrenchment.
The foundational categories organizing all TogetherOS activities: Education, Economy, Wellbeing, Technology, Governance, Connection, Media, and Planet.
Power concentrated in a few hands routes wealth upward and pain downward. This produces struggle, poverty, exploitation, ecological breakdown, and social disconnection.
TogetherOS helps communities self-organize through shared decisions, cooperative economics, and tiny verifiable steps. The key insight: the default assumptions holding us back can be changed.
TogetherOS uses gamification, micro-lessons, and public rituals to shift behavior from individual competition to collective coordination. Change happens through practice, not preaching.
How proposals move from idea to implementation: submission, deliberation, voting, and execution. Every step transparent, every decision traceable.
TogetherOS tracks four separate types of value: Support Points (governance), Reward Points (economic claims), Timebank Hours (labor exchange), and Cooperative Treasury (collective resources).
Mutual aid is reciprocal support — not charity (top-down) but solidarity (side-by-side). TogetherOS provides tools for organizing and tracking mutual aid.
TogetherOS is designed to resist specific threats: plutocracy, populist capture, coordinator corruption, sybil attacks, and burnout. Understanding threats helps us build defenses.
TogetherOS practices privacy by design: minimal data collection, user control over personal information, transparency about what we store, and the right to be forgotten.
When decisions pass despite objections, dissenting views are formally preserved alongside the majority decision. This ensures minority voices are heard, documented, and can inform future amendments.
Coordinator roles can be filled through election OR hiring. Both pathways are valid depending on the nature of the role.
CoopEverything is a global initiative to make cooperation the default way humans organize — in communities, workplaces, and societies.
TogetherOS is a cooperation operating system — a complete social and technological stack for communities to govern themselves, share resources, and deliver results.
Every article can be discussed, challenged, and improved. If you disagree with something or have a better way to explain it, start a discussion. That's how we learn together.