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Nthmost: Add Credit as Infrastructure pattern; expand Create More Masters and Succession Thinking from NB16 talk

2026-03-26T06:02:47Z

Add Credit as Infrastructure pattern; expand Create More Masters and Succession Thinking from NB16 talk

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 Encourage people to learn how to run and maintain the tools and practices of your guild. Get a recognition matrix going. Give credit generously and publicly to people who help clean, fix, and train. The goal is multiplication, not concentration.
 === The Watering Hole ===
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 === Succession Thinking ===
 If you as an organizer don't feel like you can step away without everything coming to a halt, that's your first problem to solve.
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 It could also be that an individual guild outgrows Noisebridge and decides to fill another space somewhere.
 == See Also ==

Nthmost: Move Group Patterns from Guilds page; add Participation Spiral and stubs

2026-03-26T05:40:43Z

Move Group Patterns from Guilds page; add Participation Spiral and stubs

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	Badges serve double duty: recognition for the person earning them, and a visible signal to the community that this guild has a golden path worth walking.		Badges serve double duty: recognition for the person earning them, and a visible signal to the community that this guild has a golden path worth walking.

			=== The Participation Spiral ===

			Picture a spiral. The core is "master of the guild." The outer ring is the newcomer story: walked in off the street, made something in 10 minutes.

			* The '''outer ring''' is easy — Noisebridge is good at welcoming newcomers.
			* The '''core''' takes care of itself — deeply committed people find their way there.
			* The '''middle of the spiral''' is where guilds most often fail.

			The middle is populated by people who have shown up more than once, want to do their part, and don't know how. Their good intentions get wasted by the absence of a '''golden path''': visible next steps from "first time I made something here" all the way through to trusted and highly skilled. This path doesn't require bureaucracy — only culture: words, deeds, examples, expectations, and recognition when things go well.

			=== Communications Channels ===

			Give your guild a home on [[Discord]]. A dedicated channel means people can find each other, ask questions, and stay connected between meetups.

			=== Resource Discovery & Networking ===

			Guilds might discover ways to leverage resources outside of Noisebridge in ways that befit their interests — generating organic linkages between Noisebridge and other communities.

			=== Growing Into Their Own Things ===

			It could also be that an individual guild outgrows Noisebridge and decides to fill another space somewhere.

	== See Also ==		== See Also ==

Nthmost: Add philosophy section with syndicalism framing from Guilds page

2026-03-26T05:38:08Z

Add philosophy section with syndicalism framing from Guilds page

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			== Philosophy ==

			The guild model draws from anarcho-syndicalism: Noisebridge as federation, guilds as syndicates. Everyone who uses a guild's resources is implicitly a member of the syndicate — with both the benefits and the responsibilities that come with that.

			See also: [[User:Nthmost/Guilds_and_AnarchoSyndicalism]]

	''A note on language: "Maintainer" on this page refers to people who tend this wiki page. A guild is a living social organism — it has organizers, practitioners, and members.''		''A note on language: "Maintainer" on this page refers to people who tend this wiki page. A guild is a living social organism — it has organizers, practitioners, and members.''

Nthmost: Rewrite MetaGuild as a library of working patterns; drop charter framing

2026-03-25T17:17:11Z

Rewrite MetaGuild as a library of working patterns; drop charter framing

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	~~<font size=5>~~'''MetaGuild''' ~~maintains the structural organization~~ of Noisebridge ~~as keepers~~ of ~~order amongst self-imposed chaos~~.~~</font>~~		'''MetaGuild''' is a library of patterns for starting and sustaining guilds at Noisebridge.
	*'''MAINTAINERS:''' [[User:~~Mwillson\|Mark]], [[User:Pyconaut~~\|~~Pyconaut~~]], [[User:Lxpk\|~~Lxpk~~]], [[User:Mcint\|~~Mcint~~]]
	*'''~~CHANNELS~~:''' #~~guilds on [[Slack]]. [https://discuss.noisebridge.info/tag/guilds Guilds tag]~~ on [[~~Discuss]].~~		For discussion, find us on #metaguild on [[Discord]].
	*'''MEETINGS:''' We often do things during [[doocratic]] ~~Thursdays. Meeting tends to happen from 7pm-8pm. Meeting notes can be found here: https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Category:Metaguild_Meeting_Notes~~
			In the tradition of the [[FractalWorkingGroup]] and the [[Philosophy Guild]].

			*'''PAGE MAINTAINERS:''' [[User:Nthmost\|nthmost]], [[User:Lxpk\|lxpk]], [[User:Mcint\|mcint]]
			*'''CHANNEL:''' #metaguild on [[Discord]]
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	[[Category:Guild]]		[[Category:Guild]]

			''A note on language: "Maintainer" on this page refers to people who tend this wiki page. A guild is a living social organism — it has organizers, practitioners, and members.''

			== Patterns ==

			=== Create More Masters ===

			The more people trained who can train others, the more eyes on the guild continuously, the less entropy you'll need to deal with over time.

			Encourage people to learn how to run and maintain the tools and practices of your guild. Get a recognition matrix going. Give credit generously and publicly to people who help clean, fix, and train. The goal is multiplication, not concentration.

			=== The Watering Hole ===

			Hold a regular meeting time every week, even if it seems like there's nothing to discuss or work on. Just having that consistent gathering creates community. The [[Infra]] meetup is a good example: everyone now knows they can find someone on Monday nights.

			The meeting doesn't need an agenda to be valuable. Showing up is the agenda.

	~~We produced~~ the ~~charter detailing Noisebridge's guild system. We seek to create, improve, honor and encourage [[Guilds]]!~~		=== Avoid the Bottleneck ===

	~~If you need help creating infrastructure and organization~~ for ~~your guild, whether physical or online, please consider joining MetaGuild or asking for our help.~~		Watch for these warning signs:

	~~== Resources ==~~		* "I'm tired of running trainings" → no one gets trained
			* "X is the only person who can fix Y" → Y stays broken when X leaves
			* Fewer than 5 people can answer a question in the guild's chat → next biggest problem to solve

	* [[WorkingGroup:Documentation\|Documentation Working Group]] Maintaining the wiki contents of Noisebridge and ~~helping guilds maintain their parts of it~~.		Distributed intelligence works well for anarchists. Find a way to track who knows what, and actively work to spread that knowledge around.

	== ~~Concepts~~==		=== Succession Thinking ===
	~~Some meta ideas~~ in ~~early development~~.
	* [[Badges]]		If you as an organizer don't feel like you can step away without everything coming to a halt, that's your first problem to solve.

			If you start showing up a lot, in a way that people come to rely on you being there, be actively working on distributing that capacity — rather than letting people see you as the central node.

			Only add more of your own time if you are actively also looking for people to help you share the load.

			=== Avoid All-or-Nothing Thinking ===

			"Well, they only know how to fix one of the machines" is not a reason to discount someone's contribution. Partial knowledge distributed across many people is more resilient than complete knowledge held by one person.

			Find a way to track who knows what. Celebrate incremental skill-building.

	==~~History~~==		=== Badges ===
	* [https://share.clickup.com/l/h/4-4378987-1/c3f63029424f213 \| Old Task Board]

	~~=== Past Maintainers ===~~		A fun mechanism from the [[Badges]] concept: collaborate to create DIY badges that require learning a guild skill to make. For a sewing guild, that might mean sew-your-own badges where making the badge is the skill demonstration.
	[[~~User:James\|James~~]] - ~~Organizer~~

	~~== Charter ==~~		Badges serve double duty: recognition for the person earning them, and a visible signal to the community that this guild has a golden path worth walking.

	~~[[https://docs.google.com/document/d/1sS2OXwxTgD6nfW4b3DSGUx03GIW8p0To-hy1Lr7mADo/edit?usp~~=~~sharing\| Our Charter]]~~		== See Also ==

	~~Our wiki page is protected, so if you want to try editing our charter, please play around with it~~ [[~~MetaGuildCharterDraft\|at this unprotected link~~]].		* [[Guilds]] — the full guild directory and philosophy
			* [[FractalWorkingGroup]] — predecessor model
			* [[Philosophy Guild]]
			* [[Badges]]

Mcint: Add :Category:Guild

2023-12-24T05:59:56Z

Add Category:Guild

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	We produced the charter detailing Noisebridge's guild system. We seek to create, improve, honor and encourage [[Guilds]]!		We produced the charter detailing Noisebridge's guild system. We seek to create, improve, honor and encourage [[Guilds]]!

Mcint: Add self to maintainers

2023-12-16T02:16:58Z

Add self to maintainers

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	<font size=5>'''MetaGuild''' maintains the structural organization of Noisebridge as keepers of order amongst self-imposed chaos.</font>		<font size=5>'''MetaGuild''' maintains the structural organization of Noisebridge as keepers of order amongst self-imposed chaos.</font>
	*'''MAINTAINERS:''' [[User:Mwillson\|Mark]], [[User:Pyconaut\|Pyconaut]], [[User:Lxpk\|Lxpk]]		*'''MAINTAINERS:''' [[User:Mwillson\|Mark]], [[User:Pyconaut\|Pyconaut]], [[User:Lxpk\|Lxpk]], [[User:Mcint\|Mcint]]
	*'''CHANNELS:''' #guilds on [[Slack]]. [https://discuss.noisebridge.info/tag/guilds Guilds tag] on [[Discuss]].		*'''CHANNELS:''' #guilds on [[Slack]]. [https://discuss.noisebridge.info/tag/guilds Guilds tag] on [[Discuss]].
	*'''MEETINGS:''' We often do things during [[doocratic]] Thursdays. Meeting tends to happen from 7pm-8pm. Meeting notes can be found here: https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Category:Metaguild_Meeting_Notes		*'''MEETINGS:''' We often do things during [[doocratic]] Thursdays. Meeting tends to happen from 7pm-8pm. Meeting notes can be found here: https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Category:Metaguild_Meeting_Notes

Mwillson at 06:20, 5 August 2022

2022-08-05T06:20:37Z

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	*'''CHANNELS:''' #guilds on [[Slack]]. [https://discuss.noisebridge.info/tag/guilds Guilds tag] on [[Discuss]].		*'''CHANNELS:''' #guilds on [[Slack]]. [https://discuss.noisebridge.info/tag/guilds Guilds tag] on [[Discuss]].
	*'''MEETINGS:''' We often do things during [[doocratic]] Thursdays. Meeting notes can be found here: https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Category:Metaguild_Meeting_Notes		*'''MEETINGS:''' We often do things during [[doocratic]] Thursdays. Meeting tends to happen from 7pm-8pm. Meeting notes can be found here: https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Category:Metaguild_Meeting_Notes
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Mwillson at 06:19, 5 August 2022

2022-08-05T06:19:44Z

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	*'''MAINTAINERS:''' [[User:Mwillson\|Mark]], [[User:Pyconaut\|Pyconaut]], [[User:Lxpk\|Lxpk]]		*'''MAINTAINERS:''' [[User:Mwillson\|Mark]], [[User:Pyconaut\|Pyconaut]], [[User:Lxpk\|Lxpk]]
	*'''CHANNELS:''' #guilds on [[Slack]]. [https://discuss.noisebridge.info/tag/guilds Guilds tag] on [[Discuss]].		*'''CHANNELS:''' #guilds on [[Slack]]. [https://discuss.noisebridge.info/tag/guilds Guilds tag] on [[Discuss]].
	*'''MEETINGS:''' We often do things during [[doocratic]] Thursdays. Meeting notes can be found here: [[https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Category:Metaguild_Meeting_Notes~~\|Meeting Notes]]~~		*'''MEETINGS:''' We often do things during [[doocratic]] Thursdays. Meeting notes can be found here: https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Category:Metaguild_Meeting_Notes
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Mwillson at 06:18, 5 August 2022

2022-08-05T06:18:40Z

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	*'''CHANNELS:''' #guilds on [[Slack]]. [https://discuss.noisebridge.info/tag/guilds Guilds tag] on [[Discuss]].		*'''CHANNELS:''' #guilds on [[Slack]]. [https://discuss.noisebridge.info/tag/guilds Guilds tag] on [[Discuss]].
	*'''MEETINGS:''' We often do things during [[doocratic]] Thursdays.		*'''MEETINGS:''' We often do things during [[doocratic]] Thursdays. Meeting notes can be found here: [[https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Category:Metaguild_Meeting_Notes\|Meeting Notes]]
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Lxpk at 19:32, 26 December 2021

2021-12-26T19:32:37Z

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	We produced the charter detailing Noisebridge's guild system. We seek to create, improve, honor and encourage [[Guilds]]!		We produced the charter detailing Noisebridge's guild system. We seek to create, improve, honor and encourage [[Guilds]]!

	If you need help creating ~~structure~~ and organization for your guild, whether physical or online, please consider joining MetaGuild.		If you need help creating infrastructure and organization for your guild, whether physical or online, please consider joining MetaGuild or asking for our help.

	== Resources ==		== Resources ==

	* [[WorkingGroup:Documentation\|Documentation Working Group]] Maintaining the wiki contents of Noisebridge and helping guilds maintain their parts of it.		* [[WorkingGroup:Documentation\|Documentation Working Group]] Maintaining the wiki contents of Noisebridge and helping guilds maintain their parts of it.

			== Concepts==
			Some meta ideas in early development.
	* [[Badges]]		* [[Badges]]

	~~Other potential resources?~~

	==History==		==History==
	* [https://share.clickup.com/l/h/4-4378987-1/c3f63029424f213 \| Old Task Board]		* [https://share.clickup.com/l/h/4-4378987-1/c3f63029424f213 \| Old Task Board]

			=== Past Maintainers ===

	=== ~~Pat~~ Maintainers ===
	[[User:James\|James]] - Organizer		[[User:James\|James]] - Organizer