Verification Committee

Therefore, the functions of the Verification Committee are:

• Validate whethof the Metadecidim community who make a verification request meet the verification criteria previously agreed upon for the community itself.
• Review, with an annual periodicity, whether the verified users continue to meet the verification requirements for their permanence and continue to act in the sincere interest of serving the project, the community and the democratic principles that support it.

The criteria on which the Verification Committee will be based and voted by the Community through a consultation are:

1.Participation in the community

Description: Anyone who has actively participated and contributed significantly in the Metadecidim community through one of the different activities of the same

Indicators: To assess whether the candidate to verify the verification committee will take into account the compliance of all these indicators to meet this criterion:

• Assistance to more than 3 SOM or LAB Metadecidim
• Assistance to a JAM
• Significant or regular contribution to any work group of the community

2. Manager of an instance of Decidim

Description: Entities that have active Decidim instances.

Indicators: For each instance of an institution or an organization, only one candidate may be presented as a delegate.

To assess if the candidate to be verified the VC will take into account any of the following indicators to satisfy this criterion:

• Have a Decidim public institution facility with more than 300 participants and at least 2 participation spaces (participatory processes, real bodies or consultations). Understanding assets that have more than 150 of some of the following elements: comments, proposals, votes or accessions created by different participants.
• Have an installation Decidim organization with more than 100 participants (association, cooperative, foundation ...) and at least 2 spaces for participation (participatory processes, real bodies or consultations). Understanding assets that have more than 50 of some of the following elements: comments, proposals, votes or accessions created by different participants.

3. Professional link

Description: Any entity (company, association, university ...) that has had a contractual relationship with the project and that has contributed significantly to the project may request the membership of a person in which delegates the functions of decision making in the community.

Indicators: Provided professional linkage is the only demonstrable criterion for an entity, said organization may elect a person as a "delegate".

To assess the candidate, the VC will take into account the following indicators to satisfy this criterion.

• Billing or contract made expressly for the project

4.Development of the platform

Description: Anyone who has collaborated virtually with the project Decidim

Indicators: To assess whether the candidate to be verified by the verification committee will take into account the following indicators to satisfy this criterion:

• Any person who, without fulfilling the prerequisites, can demonstrate significant contributions to the project or their community (for example in GitHub Decidim or Crowdin Decidim).

Related participatory processes

Decidim.GOV: Democratic Governance for an open community

A process open to the entire Community regarding the decision-making and representative bodies that ...

#decidimgov

• Start date
  01/11/2018
• End date
  28/02/2019

• 12/11/2018
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Current step:

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