# Collaborating member proposal: Commons Network

**URL:** https://forum.meet.coop/t/collaborating-member-proposal-commons-network/942
**Category:** Members @ meet.coop
**Tags:** time-deliberating, org-circle
**Created:** [8 March 2022 14:01 UTC](https://forum.meet.coop/t/collaborating-member-proposal-commons-network/942 "2022-03-08T14:01:24Z")
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### Author: ![wouter](https://forum.meet.coop/user_avatar/forum.meet.coop/wouter/32/318_2.png) [@wouter](https://forum.meet.coop/u/wouter)
#### Post date: [8 March 2022 14:01 UTC](https://forum.meet.coop/t/collaborating-member-proposal-commons-network/942/1 "2022-03-08T14:01:24Z")

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So far we are having Operational members and User members, right? Well, and: _inactive_ operational members. In fact the latter is a growing class, with a rather ugly name. Instead we should create a “collaborating member” class, for members who want to contribute to our mission not as User members and nor as fully committed Operational members. Our [relation with Platoniq](https://forum.meet.coop/t/platoniq-goteo-as-operational-members/524) for example would in that sense perfectly fit the Collaborating member class. And if we consider the [requirement for ops members](https://forum.meet.coop/t/membership-of-meet-coop/171) to participate in at least 50% of All Hands meetings, then that makes for quite a few inactive ops members. Even though “inactive” min this sense means to not get to the level of full ops members, these members still make meaningful contributions to [meet.coop](http://meet.coop). Possibly a collaborating membership might make most sense for them?

Then there are parties who have agreed to contribute to [meet.coop](http://meet.coop) by participating in the Board of Stewards. Many of them are User members or Ops members, but not all. We could (or: should) give them the option to get a free account - and leave it to their choice whether they also want to contribute monetarily. In some of these case we could go a step further and strike a deal to make them Collaborating members.

For example, Sophie Bloemen from Commons Network ([https://www.commonsnetwork.org/](https://www.commonsnetwork.org/)) is joining the Board. At the same time they are hosting public events about the commons economy. She’s interested in using [meet.coop](http://meet.coop) and convince her peers of the importance of that. We could ask them to write about [meet.coop](http://meet.coop) and help get [meet.coop](http://meet.coop) more known in their circles. As part of that collaboration agreement.