The Loomio Co-op Handbook
The software we build is open source, and our organisation is open source too. This handbook is where we document how we run an efficient organisation without a hierarchy.
We build software for collaborative decision making, used by thousands of organisations and communities around the world. If you’re looking for a way to make group decisions without meeting, try it out at loomio.org.
VIDEO: Loomio co-founder Alanna introducing the co-op handbook, and talking about why we open source our organisational development.
If you're viewing this on a small screen, you'll find a table of contents by clicking the menu icon at the top left.
Other stories about developing an open organisation
Besides this handbook, Alanna and Rich have written a bunch of stories based on their experience as two of the Loomio co-founders. Here's a couple:
- Beyond “Dreamers vs Doers” — Full Circle Leadership
- How to Grow Distributed Leadership
- Bootstrapping a Bossless Organisation in 3 Easy Steps ;-)
- A Caring Organisation: Feelings, Magic & Gendered work
Feel free to contact @richdecibels on Twitter if you want to chat about this stuff 💅
About this handbook
If you find this handbook helpful in your work, please let us know. We'd love to hear from you. 🐌
The handbook was discussed on Hacker News. The comment thread is a good source of further FAQ style information.
You can find the code on Github, and download the handbook in different formats from Gitbook.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 Unported License.