	\section{HOW-TO Build A Common}


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	\item \checkbox\ The first task is to gather together a group of folks you know to discuss if you would like to start a new community. 
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		\item \checkbox\ Discuss which of the reasons for building a community are most important. Your community can include one or more reasons from the "Why Build a Community?" section. 
		\item \checkbox\ Discuss and agree on a decision making process. Understand that this decision making process is intended to be used to make the rest of the decisions moving forward. 
		\item \checkbox\ This document has some suggestions, but of course you can choose to change any and all of the frameworks laid out here. Everything starts by talking to the people around you. 
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	\item \checkbox\ Define a piece of the physical world with clearly defined boundaries. A clearly defined boundary will be some piece or pieces of the physical world that can be assigned as property by the legal system in which you reside.The group that is gathering can use the consensus process to determine what piece of the physical world they wish to manage.
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	 \item \checkbox\ Take inventory of what resources the community might already have and be willing to pool together. This could be pooling cars into a driving pool, converting an existing private property over to a commons, or pooling cash and time commitments towards the new commons needs. 	
	 
	 \item \checkbox\  If it is a purchase of a property to manage, discuss the monthly input committed by each member, and compare that to the available real estate and financing terms. A trust is a legal structure that can be used with a charter of assigned property and access rights to bridge cooperative decision making internally with the legal structure external to the cooperative. 
	 \item \checkbox\ If the resource to be managed is digital or time based then the time commitments and digital tooling infrastructure can be agreed upon to start. 
	 \item \checkbox\ Define the contours of the boundaries for personal property and commons space. 
	 
	 
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	\item \checkbox\ Establish problem solving strategies and conflict resolution forums. 
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	 \item \checkbox\ This can simply be that you agree to call a consensus meeting whenever there is a commons related decision that needs to be made. 
	 \item \checkbox\ Ostrums book contains many different forms of problem solving systems if you need more examples. 	
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	\item \checkbox\ Define resource allocation, who gets what and when, as well as how and when those allocations change. 
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		\item \checkbox\ Define what resources are available in terms relative to availability.
		\item \checkbox\ Define what each person gets as a changeable share of the total. 
		\item \checkbox\ Define clearly how the resource allocation changes, how often it can change, and how the change in share is decided. 
		\item \checkbox\ Define what resources are allocated for personal property (For consumption), and which are allocated for usufruct only (For use and must be returned in good condition). For a shared resource define the time and spacial bounds of any temporary rights of exclusion. 
		\item \checkbox\ Define what rights of transfer exist. Can a member sublet a commons space without going through the resource allocation process or not. How will inheritance of rights function?
		\item \checkbox\ Define what happens if allocation rules are violated and how conflicts are resolved when they arise. Define what is necessary for removal from the common. 
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	\item \checkbox\ Decide on a wind-down strategy for the whole commons and for individuals. 
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		\item \checkbox\ If the common becomes insolvent, or support is withdrawn, how will the break-up of assets take place.
		\item \checkbox\ If a member wishes to leave, what are they entitled to, if anything, upon leaving. 	
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