Community

From Metagovernment - Government of, by, and for all the people

A community is any group which shares a common concern. See the Wikipedia article on community.

Metascore

Metascore software intends to act as the facilitator of governance of any community. There could be a separate instance of Metascore running for each community, or communities could be defined through tagging (within one or multiple instances of Metascore).

For any particular community, there can be only one government. We have yet to define in what ways and by what means Metascore will be partitioned. See the Metascore repositories for some initial definitions.

Geography

Communities have various relationships to geography. Some, such as a watershed, are inherently defined by geography, while others, such as a professional association, may be completely unrelated to geography. Many, such as a national professional association, are partially associated with a particular region.

A person who does not live in a region still may be affected by decisions made in that region. See Basic_principles#Geographic_distinctness_within_a_global_community and the associated Talk page for a discussion of the implications on Metascore and the Metagovernment.

We need to determine:

• what needs to be accounted for in the process of communities making the right choices
• what rights and responsibilities do people have for areas of the planet's surface
• what "qualifies" people as having those rights